Program Overview

EPT521 Professional Experience: Effective Teaching and Assessment in the Primary Years

This capstone subject is the final subject in the Master of Teaching course and draws on teacher education students' cumulative learning from across the coursework components of the degree and includes the final professional experience placement. During this professional experience placement, students will complete a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA) in which they will demonstrate they have met the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) at graduate level. They will also be required to submit evidence of their practice (planning, teaching, assessing, and reflecting) and evaluate their impact on school students' learning.

Subject Information

Grading System

• HD/FL

Duration

• One session

School

• School of Teacher Education

Enrolment Restrictions

This subject is available to Master of Teaching students only. Commencement of this subject should be in the final session of study in the course. This subject is not available to students who have completed subjects EPT433 or EPT508 or EEE405 or EEE503 as they share similar content with this subject. The following subjects should be completed either prior to, or concurrently with EPT521:

• (EPT447 or EPT432)
• (EEP427 or EED408 or EED502)
• (EED409 or EED503 or EED422)
• (EMM209 or EMM418)
• (EMM410 or EMM503)
• EML440
• (EML439 or EML530)
• EMS406
• EEB505
• EMH419
• EMR408
• EMA410
• (EEA406 or EML529 or EMH501 or EMR501 or EMS501)
• ESS509

Prerequisites

• (EPT447 or EPT432)
• (EEP427 or EED408 or EED502)
• (EED409 or EED503 or EED442)
• (EMM209 or EMM418)
• (EMM410 or EMM503)
• EML440
• (EML439 or EML530)
• EMS406
• EEB505
• EMH419
• EMR408
• EMA410
• (EEA406 or EML529 or EMH501 or EMR501 or EMS501)

Subject Relationships

• EMS501 Enrolment Restriction
• EMM410 Prerequisite subject
• EMM503 Prerequisite subject
• EEE405 Shares similar content
• EPT508 Shares similar content
• EML439 Prerequisite subject
• EMH501 Enrolment Restriction
• EML530 Prerequisite subject
• EEE503 Shares similar content
• EPT432 Prerequisite subject
• EML529 Enrolment Restriction
• EPT448 Paired Subject
• EPT433 Shares similar content
• EMR501 Enrolment Restriction
• EPT447 Prerequisite subject

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

• be able to demonstrate achievement of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at graduate level during 35 days of professional experience in a primary classroom setting;
• be able to plan and justify appropriate teaching and learning sequences with student data, including NAPLAN results;
• be able to apply current models of pedagogy and strategies appropriate to the context and stage, to cater for the diverse needs of learners;
• be able to apply a range of strategies to assess, record, report, and provide feedback to students and parents/carers on achievement of learning outcomes;
• be able to analyse and interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and to inform planning and/or to modify subsequent teaching practice to progress student learning;
• be able to use assessment tools and moderation processes to support consistent and comparable, standards-based judgements of student learning;
• be able to reflect on and appraise the impact of their teaching on student outcomes, drawing on relevant theory and evidence collected, to modify and improve future teaching and progress student learning;
• be able to demonstrate achievement of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) at graduate level through the satisfactory completion of a Teaching Performance Assessment (TPA); and
• be able to formulate a plan to address professional learning needs to modify and improve future teaching and progress student learning.

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
• Preparing for placement; requirements and the responsibilities of being a classroom teacher
• Development of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time) professional goals
• Expectations for a 35-day professional experience placement
• State and national principles and policies, including NAPLAN, and their influence on assessment requirements and practices
• Purposes of assessment (including NAPLAN)
• Interpreting student data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice
• Different approaches, skills, and practices in assessment - strengths and challenges
• Assessment as evidence of student learning and achievement
• Assessment strategies
• Effective feed forward and feedback on student learning
• Reliability and validity in assessment and moderation: Making consistent and comparable judgements
• Analysing student work
• Strategies for recording and reporting student achievement to students and parents/carers
• Strategies for evaluating and improving teaching programs to improve student learning
• Learning Intentions, marking rubrics, and assessment criteria
• TPA requirements: folio of annotated evidence and a report or narrative of their case study in a multimodal text

Workplace Learning

This subject contains a 35-day Compulsory Workplace Learning component. This subject will involve 35 days of supervised professional experience in a primary school setting as required for accreditation.