EDFE13032 - Professional Practice 3 (Primary/ECE) - Managing the Differentiated Classroom

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In Professional Practice 3, you will participate in tutorials, practical workshops and an assessable classroom placement. The placement comprises a 20-day continuous block to enhance your ability to design, adapt and implement teaching sequences that cater to the diverse needs of learners in mainstream classrooms. You will develop an understanding of the use of assessment for learning as integral to informed curriculum decision-making and differentiation practices. You will apply this knowledge in classroom contexts to modify lesson plans and learning sequences in all curriculum learning areas in response to class profiling data that accurately records the strengths, needs and preferred learning styles of individuals and groups. Alongside this, you will develop formative and summative assessment strategies for monitoring student learning and achieving alignment between curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. During this placement, you will practise the use of a range of teaching strategies including questioning techniques and the provision of timely descriptive feedback to build effective relationships with learners and improve student outcomes.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite:- Students must have successfully completed either EDFE12042 or EDFE11039.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2025

Term 3 - 2025 Profile
Mixed Mode

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

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This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.

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Previous Feedback

Term 3 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 82.61% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 19.66% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: SUTE
Feedback
Clarity of assessment tasks
Recommendation
Assessment information will be clarified and new resources developed.
Action Taken
Resources for AT5 were created and shared to support curated document and alignment with criteria. Online Quiz was written and undertaken.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Updating of Moodle site
Recommendation
Review and update resources
Action Taken
Review of resources related to Australian Curriculum Version 8.4 were removed and links to current Version 9.0 were embedded.
Source: Student Feedback and Self-Reflection
Feedback
Inclusion of placement preparation resources
Recommendation
Review Moodle site to include section for Professional Practice preparation each week.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback and Self-Reflection
Feedback
Update Moodle resources
Recommendation
Review Moodle site to ensure inclusion of recent resources and research regarding differentiation.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback, Self-Reflection and Staff Feedback (Markers)
Feedback
Review written assessment tasks
Recommendation
Review written assessment tasks and ensure tasks are clear with aligned criteria, reflect current practices and application of unit learning outcomes.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Student Feedback, Self-Reflection
Feedback
Review Quiz
Recommendation
Review clarity of compulsory quiz questions and associated settings.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes
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