EUB371 Professional Experience: Evidence-Informed Professional Practice (School)
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| Unit code: | EUB371 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisite(s): | EUB270 or EUB444 or EUB444-2 |
| Equivalent(s): | EUB343, EUB344 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,324 |
| International unit fee | $4,224 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EUB371 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EUB270 or EUB444 or EUB444-2 |
| Equivalent: | EUB343, EUB344 |
Overview
This unit focuses on developing the professional knowledge and practices associated with evidence of learning and evidence of impact. It will include strategies for assessing, including quality-assuring teacher judgements of student achievement. Data management, interpretation and analysis skills will be introduced, and factors that influence the measures of student performance.
It includes 25 days of professional experience. Learning in this unit will be related to preparing for and reflecting on the time you will spend in a school.
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:
- Develop and implement a range of diagnostic and formative assessment strategies drawing on relevant curriculum.
- Collect and interpret evidence of student learning in relation to kindergarten context, learning intentions and curriculum.
- Modify teaching practice based on evidence, theory and professional and academic literature.
- Evaluate impact on student learning through analysis of student assessment data.
- Seek and apply constructive feedback from supervisors, teachers and peers to improve teaching practices.
- Conduct yourself ethically and professionally in line with the code of ethics for teachers and codes of conduct.
- Demonstrate planning, teaching, management of safe and supportive learning environments, assessing and recording learning, and professional conduct during professional experience.
Content
- Professional practices associated with gathering, gauging and responding to evidence of student learning
- Ways of reflecting on evidence of teacher impact
- The different modes and purposes of assessment
- The importance of making comparable and defensible judgements of student performance and the role of quality assurance processes in professional practice, and
- Ways of tracking student progress.
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 including lectures, workshops, online materials, as well as participation in large-group discussions and small group interactions will be utilised. Your learning will be enhanced by 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
- unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort, and
- formative assessment task - early in the teaching period you will complete a class activity outlining your initial planning for Assessment Task 2. You will be provided with the opportunity to engage in a feedback process with peers and academic staff.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Professional Experience Report -This will require you to connect the learning from this unit and your course about evidence-informed practice to professional experience.
- Assessment in Practice - This will require you to draw on your understanding of how teachers use assessment for learning strategies to gauge and improve student learning and teacher impact, and how they share outcomes with colleagues via professional learning networks.
You must receive a passing grade (Satisfactory) on each assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Since this is a Professional Experience unit, special conditions of assessment apply to the second assessment task in the unit— Assessment in Practice.. Assessment criteria for Assessment Task 2 number five. You must pass all five assessment criteria to pass the second assessment task. Where an attempt fails to meet any one (1) assessment criterion, a resubmission of the assessment task within 72 hours of the release of results for that task may be permitted. It is your responsibility as a student to (i) resubmit your complete assignment should your unsatisfactory attempt fall within this margin of insufficiency (i.e., of one criterion) and (ii) notify your Unit Coordinator via email of your submission.
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.
Assessment: Assessment in Practice
- explain how the learning goal provides achievable challenges for students across the full range of abilities and characteristics
- explain how you used the backward design in the full teaching and learning context
- interpret student assessment data to evaluate learning
- present and reflect on evidence of your students’ learning to evaluate your teaching, discuss how you have positively impacted on learning outcomes and how your evaluation could contribute to modifying teaching practice
- relate your professional experience to the content of this unit.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must achieve a passing grade (satisfactory) on each individual assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Resubmission of Assessment Task 2 may be permitted. See 'Assessment Overview' above.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties 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 text 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
- Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
2 Professional Knowledge: Know the content and how to teach it
- Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Content selection and organisation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Curriculum, assessment and reporting
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Literacy and numeracy strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
3 Professional Practice: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Establish challenging learning goals
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use teaching strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Select and use resources
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use effective classroom communication
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Evaluate and improve teaching programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice
4 Professional Practice: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
- Support student participation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage classroom activities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage challenging behaviour
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Maintain student safety
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
5 Professional Practice: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
- Assess student learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Provide feedback to students on their learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Make consistent and comparable judgements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Interpret student data
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Report on student achievement
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
6 Professional Engagement: Engage in professional learning
- Engage with colleagues and improve practice
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
7 Professional Engagement: Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
- Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - 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)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge to learning areas, learning and learners.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Assessment in Practice - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Responsive: Interpret data, policy and legislative requirements to inform professional decisions about practice.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Collegial: Collaborate and connect with professional networks and the wider community.
Relates to: ULO5, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Ethical: Engage ethically and respectfully with learners, colleagues, parents/carers and community from diverse backgrounds.
Relates to: ULO6, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Communicative: Engage and communicate effectively and professionally.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUB371 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EUB270 or EUB444 or EUB444-2 |
| Equivalent: | EUB343, EUB344 |
Overview
This unit focuses on developing the professional knowledge and practices associated with evidence of learning and evidence of impact. It will include strategies for assessing, including quality-assuring teacher judgements of student achievement. Data management, interpretation and analysis skills will be introduced, and factors that influence the measures of student performance.
It includes 25 days of professional experience. Learning in this unit will be related to preparing for and reflecting on the time you will spend in a school.
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:
- Develop and implement a range of diagnostic and formative assessment strategies drawing on relevant curriculum.
- Collect and interpret evidence of student learning in relation to kindergarten context, learning intentions and curriculum.
- Modify teaching practice based on evidence, theory and professional and academic literature.
- Evaluate impact on student learning through analysis of student assessment data.
- Seek and apply constructive feedback from supervisors, teachers and peers to improve teaching practices.
- Conduct yourself ethically and professionally in line with the code of ethics for teachers and codes of conduct.
- Demonstrate planning, teaching, management of safe and supportive learning environments, assessing and recording learning, and professional conduct during professional experience.
Content
- Professional practices associated with gathering, gauging and responding to evidence of student learning
- Ways of reflecting on evidence of teacher impact
- The different modes and purposes of assessment
- The importance of making comparable and defensible judgements of student performance and the role of quality assurance processes in professional practice, and
- Ways of tracking student progress.
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 including lectures, workshops, online materials, as well as participation in large-group discussions and small group interactions will be utilised. Your learning will be enhanced by 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
- unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort, and
- formative assessment task - early in the teaching period you will complete a class activity outlining your initial planning for Assessment Task 2. You will be provided with the opportunity to engage in a feedback process with peers and academic staff.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Professional Experience Report -This will require you to connect the learning from this unit and your course about evidence-informed practice to professional experience.
- Assessment in Practice - This will require you to draw on your understanding of how teachers use assessment for learning strategies to gauge and improve student learning and teacher impact, and how they share outcomes with colleagues via professional learning networks.
You must receive a passing grade (Satisfactory) on each assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Since this is a Professional Experience unit, special conditions of assessment apply to the second assessment task in the unit— Assessment in Practice.. Assessment criteria for Assessment Task 2 number five. You must pass all five assessment criteria to pass the second assessment task. Where an attempt fails to meet any one (1) assessment criterion, a resubmission of the assessment task within 72 hours of the release of results for that task may be permitted. It is your responsibility as a student to (i) resubmit your complete assignment should your unsatisfactory attempt fall within this margin of insufficiency (i.e., of one criterion) and (ii) notify your Unit Coordinator via email of your submission.
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.
Assessment: Assessment in Practice
- explain how the learning goal provides achievable challenges for students across the full range of abilities and characteristics
- explain how you used the backward design in the full teaching and learning context
- interpret student assessment data to evaluate learning
- present and reflect on evidence of your students’ learning to evaluate your teaching, discuss how you have positively impacted on learning outcomes and how your evaluation could contribute to modifying teaching practice
- relate your professional experience to the content of this unit.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must achieve a passing grade (satisfactory) on each individual assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Resubmission of Assessment Task 2 may be permitted. See 'Assessment Overview' above.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties 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 text 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
- Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
2 Professional Knowledge: Know the content and how to teach it
- Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Content selection and organisation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Curriculum, assessment and reporting
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Literacy and numeracy strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
3 Professional Practice: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Establish challenging learning goals
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use teaching strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Select and use resources
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use effective classroom communication
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Evaluate and improve teaching programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice
4 Professional Practice: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
- Support student participation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage classroom activities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage challenging behaviour
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Maintain student safety
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
5 Professional Practice: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
- Assess student learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Provide feedback to students on their learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Make consistent and comparable judgements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Interpret student data
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Report on student achievement
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
6 Professional Engagement: Engage in professional learning
- Engage with colleagues and improve practice
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
7 Professional Engagement: Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
- Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - 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)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge to learning areas, learning and learners.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Assessment in Practice - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Responsive: Interpret data, policy and legislative requirements to inform professional decisions about practice.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Collegial: Collaborate and connect with professional networks and the wider community.
Relates to: ULO5, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Ethical: Engage ethically and respectfully with learners, colleagues, parents/carers and community from diverse backgrounds.
Relates to: ULO6, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Communicative: Engage and communicate effectively and professionally.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 11A 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal (Start Date: 30 Sep 2024)
| Unit code: | EUB371 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EUB270 or EUB444 or EUB444-2 |
| Equivalent: | EUB343, EUB344 |
| Coordinators: | Jennifer Clifton | jen.clifton@qut.edu.au Danielle Gordon | danielle.m.gordon@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit focuses on developing the professional knowledge and practices associated with evidence of learning and evidence of impact. It will include strategies for assessing, including quality-assuring teacher judgements of student achievement. Data management, interpretation and analysis skills will be introduced, and factors that influence the measures of student performance.
It includes 25 days of professional experience. Learning in this unit will be related to preparing for and reflecting on the time you will spend in a school.
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:
- Develop and implement a range of diagnostic and formative assessment strategies drawing on relevant curriculum.
- Collect and interpret evidence of student learning in relation to kindergarten context, learning intentions and curriculum.
- Modify teaching practice based on evidence, theory and professional and academic literature.
- Evaluate impact on student learning through analysis of student assessment data.
- Seek and apply constructive feedback from supervisors, teachers and peers to improve teaching practices.
- Conduct yourself ethically and professionally in line with the code of ethics for teachers and codes of conduct.
- Demonstrate planning, teaching, management of safe and supportive learning environments, assessing and recording learning, and professional conduct during professional experience.
Content
- Professional practices associated with gathering, gauging and responding to evidence of student learning
- Ways of reflecting on evidence of teacher impact
- The different modes and purposes of assessment
- The importance of making comparable and defensible judgements of student performance and the role of quality assurance processes in professional practice, and
- Ways of tracking student progress.
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 including lectures, workshops, online materials, as well as participation in large-group discussions and small group interactions will be utilised. Your learning will be enhanced by 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
- unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort, and
- formative assessment task - early in the teaching period you will complete a class activity outlining your initial planning for Assessment Task 2. You will be provided with the opportunity to engage in a feedback process with peers and academic staff.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Professional Experience Report -This will require you to connect the learning from this unit and your course about evidence-informed practice to professional experience.
- Assessment in Practice - This will require you to draw on your understanding of how teachers use assessment for learning strategies to gauge and improve student learning and teacher impact, and how they share outcomes with colleagues via professional learning networks.
You must receive a passing grade (Satisfactory) on each assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Since this is a Professional Experience unit, special conditions of assessment apply to the second assessment task in the unit— Assessment in Practice.. Assessment criteria for Assessment Task 2 number five. You must pass all five assessment criteria to pass the second assessment task. Where an attempt fails to meet any one (1) assessment criterion, a resubmission of the assessment task within 72 hours of the release of results for that task may be permitted. It is your responsibility as a student to (i) resubmit your complete assignment should your unsatisfactory attempt fall within this margin of insufficiency (i.e., of one criterion) and (ii) notify your Unit Coordinator via email of your submission.
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.
Assessment: Assessment in Practice
- explain how the learning goal provides achievable challenges for students across the full range of abilities and characteristics
- explain how you used the backward design in the full teaching and learning context
- interpret student assessment data to evaluate learning
- present and reflect on evidence of your students’ learning to evaluate your teaching, discuss how you have positively impacted on learning outcomes and how your evaluation could contribute to modifying teaching practice
- relate your professional experience to the content of this unit.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must achieve a passing grade (satisfactory) on each individual assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Resubmission of Assessment Task 2 may be permitted. See 'Assessment Overview' above.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties 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 text 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
- Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
2 Professional Knowledge: Know the content and how to teach it
- Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Content selection and organisation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Curriculum, assessment and reporting
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Literacy and numeracy strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
3 Professional Practice: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Establish challenging learning goals
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use teaching strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Select and use resources
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use effective classroom communication
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Evaluate and improve teaching programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice
4 Professional Practice: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
- Support student participation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage classroom activities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage challenging behaviour
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Maintain student safety
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
5 Professional Practice: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
- Assess student learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Provide feedback to students on their learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Make consistent and comparable judgements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Interpret student data
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Report on student achievement
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
6 Professional Engagement: Engage in professional learning
- Engage with colleagues and improve practice
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
7 Professional Engagement: Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
- Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - 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)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge to learning areas, learning and learners.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Assessment in Practice - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Responsive: Interpret data, policy and legislative requirements to inform professional decisions about practice.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Collegial: Collaborate and connect with professional networks and the wider community.
Relates to: ULO5, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Ethical: Engage ethically and respectfully with learners, colleagues, parents/carers and community from diverse backgrounds.
Relates to: ULO6, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Communicative: Engage and communicate effectively and professionally.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report
Unit Outline: Flexible Period - 11A 2024, Online (Start Date: 30 Sep 2024)
| Unit code: | EUB371 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | EUB270 or EUB444 or EUB444-2 |
| Equivalent: | EUB343, EUB344 |
Overview
This unit focuses on developing the professional knowledge and practices associated with evidence of learning and evidence of impact. It will include strategies for assessing, including quality-assuring teacher judgements of student achievement. Data management, interpretation and analysis skills will be introduced, and factors that influence the measures of student performance.
It includes 25 days of professional experience. Learning in this unit will be related to preparing for and reflecting on the time you will spend in a school.
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:
- Develop and implement a range of diagnostic and formative assessment strategies drawing on relevant curriculum.
- Collect and interpret evidence of student learning in relation to kindergarten context, learning intentions and curriculum.
- Modify teaching practice based on evidence, theory and professional and academic literature.
- Evaluate impact on student learning through analysis of student assessment data.
- Seek and apply constructive feedback from supervisors, teachers and peers to improve teaching practices.
- Conduct yourself ethically and professionally in line with the code of ethics for teachers and codes of conduct.
- Demonstrate planning, teaching, management of safe and supportive learning environments, assessing and recording learning, and professional conduct during professional experience.
Content
- Professional practices associated with gathering, gauging and responding to evidence of student learning
- Ways of reflecting on evidence of teacher impact
- The different modes and purposes of assessment
- The importance of making comparable and defensible judgements of student performance and the role of quality assurance processes in professional practice, and
- Ways of tracking student progress.
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 including lectures, workshops, online materials, as well as participation in large-group discussions and small group interactions will be utilised. Your learning will be enhanced by 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
- unit coordinator and tutor comments to the cohort, and
- formative assessment task - early in the teaching period you will complete a class activity outlining your initial planning for Assessment Task 2. You will be provided with the opportunity to engage in a feedback process with peers and academic staff.
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessment tasks in this unit:
- Professional Experience Report -This will require you to connect the learning from this unit and your course about evidence-informed practice to professional experience.
- Assessment in Practice - This will require you to draw on your understanding of how teachers use assessment for learning strategies to gauge and improve student learning and teacher impact, and how they share outcomes with colleagues via professional learning networks.
You must receive a passing grade (Satisfactory) on each assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Since this is a Professional Experience unit, special conditions of assessment apply to the second assessment task in the unit— Assessment in Practice.. Assessment criteria for Assessment Task 2 number five. You must pass all five assessment criteria to pass the second assessment task. Where an attempt fails to meet any one (1) assessment criterion, a resubmission of the assessment task within 72 hours of the release of results for that task may be permitted. It is your responsibility as a student to (i) resubmit your complete assignment should your unsatisfactory attempt fall within this margin of insufficiency (i.e., of one criterion) and (ii) notify your Unit Coordinator via email of your submission.
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.
Assessment: Assessment in Practice
- explain how the learning goal provides achievable challenges for students across the full range of abilities and characteristics
- explain how you used the backward design in the full teaching and learning context
- interpret student assessment data to evaluate learning
- present and reflect on evidence of your students’ learning to evaluate your teaching, discuss how you have positively impacted on learning outcomes and how your evaluation could contribute to modifying teaching practice
- relate your professional experience to the content of this unit.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Threshold Assessment:
You must achieve a passing grade (satisfactory) on each individual assessment task to successfully pass this unit. Resubmission of Assessment Task 2 may be permitted. See 'Assessment Overview' above.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
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.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties 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 text 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
- Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
2 Professional Knowledge: Know the content and how to teach it
- Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Content selection and organisation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Curriculum, assessment and reporting
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Literacy and numeracy strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
3 Professional Practice: Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning
- Establish challenging learning goals
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Plan, structure and sequence learning programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use teaching strategies
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Select and use resources
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use effective classroom communication
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Evaluate and improve teaching programs
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice
4 Professional Practice: Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments
- Support student participation
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage classroom activities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Manage challenging behaviour
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Maintain student safety
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
5 Professional Practice: Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning
- Assess student learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Provide feedback to students on their learning
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Make consistent and comparable judgements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Interpret student data
Relates to: Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Report on student achievement
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
6 Professional Engagement: Engage in professional learning
- Engage with colleagues and improve practice
Relates to: Professional Experience Report
7 Professional Engagement: Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community
- Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements
Relates to: Professional Experience Report - 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)
- Knowledgeable: Apply professional knowledge to learning areas, learning and learners.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Scholarly: Consider the ways in which educational theory and research inform and impact teaching practice.
Relates to: ULO3, Assessment in Practice - Inclusive: Plan for culturally secure, supportive, caring, inclusive and positive learning environments.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Responsive: Interpret data, policy and legislative requirements to inform professional decisions about practice.
Relates to: ULO4, ULO7, Professional Experience Report, Assessment in Practice - Collegial: Collaborate and connect with professional networks and the wider community.
Relates to: ULO5, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Reflective: Reframe challenges into opportunities for capacity building and learning.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Ethical: Engage ethically and respectfully with learners, colleagues, parents/carers and community from diverse backgrounds.
Relates to: ULO6, ULO7, Professional Experience Report - Communicative: Engage and communicate effectively and professionally.
Relates to: ULO7, Professional Experience Report