EUB470 Professional Experience: Transition to Professional Practice


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Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 09A 2025, Kelvin Grove, Internal (Start Date: 14 Jul 2025)

Unit code:EUB470
Credit points:12
Pre-requisite:Completion of 288 credit points and (EUB370 or EUB371 or EUB372 or EUB343 or EUB344) and successful completion of both components of LANTITE. (Note credit point completion in the same course.)
Coordinators:Michelle Mukherjee | michelle.mukherjee@qut.edu.au
Michelle Mukherjee | michelle.mukherjee@qut.edu.au
Elizabeth Briant | elizabeth.briant@qut.edu.au
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Overview

This capstone and final professional experience unit is at the conclusion of your course and provides you with opportunities to reflect, focus and synthesise your prior university and placement experiences.  The Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA) is a course requirement that is situated within this unit. The QTPA is an assessment of teaching performance that is designed to measure your knowledge, skills and ability with relation to the Graduate level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. 

The unit incorporates a 25-day professional experience placement for all students. 

ED39 students only- If you completed EUB372 (kindy setting), you will complete your 25-day professional experience placement in EUB470 in a school setting. However, if you completed your previous placement in EUB371 or EUB370 in a school setting, then you will complete your 25-day professional experience placement in EUB470 in a kindy setting.  

This is a designated unit which is essential to your course progression. Designated units include professional experience units, units requiring the development of particular skills, and units requiring demonstration of certain personal qualities. If you fail to achieve a satisfactory level of performance in a designated unit, you may be excluded from enrolment or will be put on academic probation. If you fail a designated unit twice within your course, you may be excluded. Supplementary assessment is not available on designated units.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:

  1. Apply curriculum frameworks and effective pedagogy to positively impact learners.
  2. Apply contemporary research to demonstrate how educational theory and other relevant literature informs and impacts teaching practice.
  3. Demonstrate effective and professional communication through articulation of your teaching performance and how you impact positively on student learning.
  4. Seek and apply constructive feedback from supervisors, teachers and peers to improve teaching practices.
  5. Conduct yourself ethically and professionally in line with the code of ethics for teachers and codes of conduct.
  6. Demonstrate planning, teaching, management of safe and supportive learning environments, assessing and recording learning, and professional conduct during professional experience.

Content

The unit includes the following topics:

  • orienting yourself to an educational setting as a pre-service teacher drawing on all the elements of professional experience
  • building educational partnerships with parents/carers and the broader community
  • understanding and applying the key principles described in codes of ethics and conduct for the teaching profession
  • teacher well-being
  • building a teaching philosophy from theories and frameworks
  • interpreting student assessment data to evaluate student learning and planning lesson sequences for impact, and
  • developing evidence that demonstrates the graduate level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. 

Learning Approaches

Professional experience units explicitly teach and practise course content prior to the commencement of placement. The varied length of placements is dependent on the course requirements. QUT teaching staff ensures each professional experience unit accommodates the teaching and practising of content with regard to the timing of placements as outlined on the Professional Experience, the QUT Semester calendars, and the unit overview.

A range of teaching and learning strategies include: 

  • lectures
  • guest presentations
  • workshops
  • online materials
  • participation in peer discussions, and
  • professional readings and recordings. 

Professional experience will involve 25 days of supervised teaching practice, formal observations and integration with schooling.

Feedback on Learning and Assessment

Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:

  • professional experience reports (interim and final)
  • comments and feedback from your University Partner and Supervising Teacher
  • feedback from peers during group discussions, and
  • unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort.

Assessment

Overview

There are two assessment tasks in this unit:

  1. Professional Experience Report - This will require you to connect the learning from this unit and your course to professional experience at a graduate standard.
  2. Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (includes written and oral component) - This will require you to draw on your understanding of how teachers use assessment for learning strategies and extend these through researching and evaluating your own practice. You will also bring together all that you have learned through the course, to articulate your personal teaching philosophy.

Unit Grading Scheme

S (Satisfactory) / U (Unsatisfactory)

Assessment Tasks

Assessment: Professional Experience Report

You will practise your skills related to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in preparation for meeting the requirements of the final report.

Please refer to your course information. Non-compliance with course requirements relating to professional experience may prevent you from undertaking your professional experience placement.

Threshold Assessment:

You must achieve a passing grade (satisfactory) on each individual assessment task to successfully pass this unit.

Weight: 0
Length: 25 days professional experience
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): Final day of Placement
Related Unit learning outcomes: 4, 5, 6

Assessment: Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)

You will complete the four components of the QTPA:

A. A personal teaching statement
B. Planning for teaching and learning
C. Demonstration of impact
D. Oral presentation

This task should be seen as a cohesive narrative that describes your teaching performance at this stage of your career as a graduate teacher. You will provide a written document containing all components of the QTPA with appropriate evidence and annotations as well as attend an oral presentation with a panel in person or via an online platform.

Threshold Assessment:

You must achieve a passing grade (satisfactory) on each individual assessment task to successfully pass this unit.

Weight: 0
Length: Length: Approximately 3000 words. Duration: 15 minutes maximum for presentations.
Individual/Group: Individual
Due (indicative): 14 days after final placement
Related Unit learning outcomes: 1, 2, 3

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.

The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.

You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.

Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.

Requirements to Study

Requirements

Meet, and show evidence of, the public health or employment vaccination mandates/requirements of your state jurisdiction. 

Blue Card

A blue card is required to complete this unit. A blue card confirms that you have passed a screening of your criminal history (the Working with Children Check) and have been approved to work with children and young people. For more information on the blue card and how to apply please visit the QUT website.

Costs

There may be costs related to immunisations. 

Resources

The following resource materials will be used throughout this unit. 

Resource Materials

Recommended text(s)

Churchill, R., Godinho, S., Johnson, N. F., Keddie, A., Letts, W., Lowe, K., . . . Shaw, K. (2019). Teaching Making A Difference. John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd.

Risk Assessment Statement

There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.

Managing the risk associated with your professional experience is bound in an agreement with the systemic employment bodies and individual sites where necessary. The Workplace Health and Safety Act 2011 (Qld) places duties of care on everyone to ensure the health and safety of themselves and others in the workplace.

Students should be aware of and comply with the QUT work integrated learning policy under QUT's Assessment Policy is at MOPP C/4.4.

Standards/Competencies

This unit is designed to support your development of the following standards\competencies.

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers

1 Professional Knowledge: Know students and how they learn

  1. Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Understand how students learn
    Relates to: Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  4. Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)

2 Professional Knowledge: Know the content and how to teach it

  1. Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Content selection and organisation
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Curriculum, assessment and reporting
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  4. Literacy and numeracy strategies
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  5. Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report

3 Professional Practice: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning

  1. Establish challenging learning goals
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Use teaching strategies
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  4. Select and use resources
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  5. Use effective classroom communication
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  6. Evaluate and improve teaching programs
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)

4 Professional Practice: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments

  1. Support student participation
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Manage classroom activities
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Manage challenging behaviour
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report
  4. Maintain student safety
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  5. Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report

5 Professional Practice: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning

  1. Assess student learning
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Provide feedback to students on their learning
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Make consistent and comparable judgements
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report
  4. Interpret student data
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  5. Report on student achievement
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)

6 Professional Engagement: Engage in professional learning

  1. Identify and plan professional learning needs
    Relates to: Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Engage in professional learning and improve practice
    Relates to: Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Engage with colleagues and improve practice
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  4. Apply professional learning and improve student learning
    Relates to: Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)

7 Professional Engagement: Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community

  1. Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Engage with the parents/carers
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report
  4. Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities
    Relates to: Professional Experience Report

Course Learning Outcomes

This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.

ED39 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)

  1. Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge to learning areas, learning and learners.
    Relates to: ULO1, ULO6, Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
    Relates to: ULO2, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  4. Responsive: Interpret data, policy and legislative requirements to inform professional decisions about practice.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  5. Collegial: Collaborate and connect with professional networks and the wider community.
    Relates to: ULO4, ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  6. Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  7. Ethical: Engage ethically and respectfully with learners, colleagues, parents/carers and community from diverse backgrounds.
    Relates to: ULO5, ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  8. Communicative: Engage and communicate effectively and professionally.
    Relates to: ULO3, ULO6, Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)

ED49 Bachelor of Education (Primary)

  1. Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge of learning areas, learners and learning.
    Relates to: ULO1, ULO6, Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
    Relates to: ULO2, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  4. Responsive: Interpret data, policy and legislative requirements to inform professional decisions about practice.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  5. Collegial: Collaborate and connect with professional networks and the wider community.
    Relates to: ULO4, ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  6. Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  7. Ethical: Engage ethically and respectfully with learners, colleagues, parents/carers and community from diverse backgrounds.
    Relates to: ULO5, ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  8. Communicative: Engage and communicate effectively and professionally.
    Relates to: ULO3, ULO6, Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)

ED59 Bachelor of Education (Secondary)

  1. Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge of learning areas, learning and learners.
    Relates to: ULO1, ULO6, Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  2. Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research informs and impacts teaching practice.
    Relates to: ULO2, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)
  3. Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  4. Responsive: Interpret data, policy and legislative requirements to inform professional decisions about practice.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  5. Collegial: Collaborate and connect with professional networks and the wider community.
    Relates to: ULO4, ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  6. Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
    Relates to: ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  7. Ethical: Engage ethically and respectfully with learners, colleagues and parents/carers and community from diverse backgrounds.
    Relates to: ULO5, ULO6, Professional Experience Report
  8. Communicative: Engage and communicate effectively and professionally.
    Relates to: ULO3, ULO6, Professional Experience Report, Quality Teaching Performance Assessment (QTPA)