EDMAS6162 Engaging Professionally 3: Education for Prior-to-school children
This unit is the third in a suite of units designed to enable Pre-Service Teachers (PSTs) to critically attend to, participate in and experience, the many facets of professional engagement in teaching through a 30-day Professional Experience placement with children aged three to five years old. PSTs will create and experience a professional learning community where learning is enhanced through social processes, dialogue, and personal reflection. Communication will take place on campus and in online environments. Guided by a learning mentor, PSTs will critically examine teaching and learning experiences in early childhood settings and make complex connections to prior learning. They will focus on bigger picture issues such as the emotional work of teachers, the changing culture of early childhood education and service improvement issues as well as their own personal questions, investigations, and insights. PSTs will prepare an evidence-based professional portfolio that will form the basis of their assessment and will seek feedback from multiple sources.
Commonwealth supported place (CSP)
A CSP is subsidised by the Australian Government and students pay a contribution amount. Each unit is classified into a band, depending on the study area of the unit (this discipline may be different from the study area of your course).
2025 contribution amount* $578
2025 grandfathered contribution amount* $578
Grandfathered contribution amount - if you are a continuing student, who commenced your course before 1 January 2021, you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented, for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.
* For Clinical Psychology & Professional Pathways bands the unit fee amount is determined by accredited courses. Students in Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, Professional Pathway Psychology or Professional Pathway Social Work accredited courses should refer to the information below.
