Professional Experience 1 unit (EPR100)

Introduction

The first Professional Experience placement (PE1) provides pre-service teachers the opportunity to build on their understanding of the school context and to begin to apply their theoretical understanding of teaching in practice. PE1 primarily involves active observation of learners and learning, participation in planning for teaching and learning through discussions with colleague teachers and increasing responsibilities for implementing planned teaching activities, episodes, lessons and lesson sequences to groups of various sizes, ranging from individual through to whole-class delivery. The placement is conducted over the course of four weeks (20 days) on a full-time and continuous basis. 

This placement is undertaken in Semester 1 only, in accordance with the Professional Experience Calendar. All students must be aware of the scheduled Professional Experience dates and be prepared to undertake a placement during the scheduled time. The dates of Professional Experience may only be changed in exceptional, unplanned circumstances. Date variations are assessed on a case-by-case basis by the Coordinator, Professional Experience in accordance with the Professional Experience Guidelines. Variations can be submitted via the Variation Request Form.

Summary

Unit name	Professional Experience 1
Unit code	EPR100
College/School	Arts and Society Faculty of Education
Discipline	Education
Coordinator	Professor Robyn Cox
Available as an elective?	No
Delivered By	University of Tasmania
Level	Introductory

Availability

Specific information on 2027 unit availability will be available in August

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate a growing professional knowledge of learners and how they learn and of appropriate curriculum content and how this knowledge is applied within Science and Mathematics teaching.
• demonstrate a developing capacity to plan, implement and assess for effective teaching and learning and for safely managing learners and their learning environments in the curriculum areas of Science and Mathematics.
• demonstrate increasing capacity to develop and maintain effective professional relationships with the school community to enhance learning opportunities.

Fee Information

2027 fee information will be available in August.

Requisites

Prerequisites

(ESH102 OR EDU102) AND (ESH110 OR EPR110) AND (ESH120 OR EDU120)

Teaching

Assessment	Placement (100%)
Timetable	View the lecture timetable | View the full unit timetable

Textbooks

Required	Required readings will be listed in the unit outline prior to the start of classes.

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