Suggested guidelines for EPE210 Professional Experience: Learner Development EC (15 days) Professional experience in schools helps to develop the professional knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for beginning teachers. The professional experience promotes learning about professional contexts, about educational settings and practices, about schools and other learning settings and most importantly about teaching and learning strategies that foster pre-service teachers (PSTs) growth and development. The following schedule is a guide to provide ideas and elaborate on the unit content and in-school learning tasks for 15 days in a school setting (5 year old learners) for EPE210. The schedule can be varied or added to according to the needs/situations of the school, the context and pre-service teacher. TIMELINE PRE-SERVICE TEACHER MENTOR TEACHER Contact your mentor teacher to Organise a timetable of days of clarify details regarding attendance for the pre-service placement and initial teacher expectations of placement. Familiarise yourself with the Before the Prepare yourself for the requirements of the professional commitment of a school day: Professional experience and with the Experience 20 minutes before the students assessment forms start at least one hour after school finishes, depending upon the school activities Begin reflective journal and discuss Introduce PST to the director/principal entries with mentor teacher and other staff where appropriate Introduce yourself to the children Discuss the reflective journal with the and other staff PST. Give feedback on how you will respond to planning and teaching Pre-service teachers should be Give the pre-service teacher involved this week with: Week 1 opportunities to complete and discuss Marking attendance, yard duties (Days 1 5) – observations Undertaking individual observations Provide access and time to discuss and individual summaries of children your observations and program as well or general observations (refer to the as how you plan your program and "student resources" tab in InSchool). undertake observations These will become part of your reflective journal and your PoE*.
Suggested guidelines for EPE210 Professional Experience: Learner Development EC (15 days) Professional experience in schools helps to develop the professional knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for beginning teachers. The professional experience promotes learning about professional contexts, about educational settings and practices, about schools and other learning settings and most importantly about teaching and learning strategies that foster pre-service teachers (PSTs) growth and development. The following schedule is a guide to provide ideas and elaborate on the unit content and in-school learning tasks for 15 days in a school setting (5 year old learners) for EPE210. The schedule can be varied or added to according to the needs/situations of the school, the context and pre-service teacher. TIMELINE PRE-SERVICE TEACHER MENTOR TEACHER Before the Professional Experience Contact your mentor teacher to clarify details regarding placement and initial expectations of placement. Prepare yourself for the commitment of a school day: 20 minutes before the students start at least one hour after school finishes, depending upon the school activities Organise a timetable of days of attendance for the pre-service teacher Familiarise yourself with the requirements of the professional experience and with the assessment forms Week 1 (Days 1 – 5) Begin reflective journal and discuss entries with mentor teacher Introduce yourself to the children and other staff Pre-service teachers should be involved this week with: Marking attendance, yard duties Undertaking individual observations and individual summaries of children or general observations (refer to the "student resources" tab in InSchool). These will become part of your reflective journal and your PoE*. Introduce PST to the director/principal and other staff where appropriate Discuss the reflective journal with the PST. Give feedback on how you will respond to planning and teaching Give the pre-service teacher opportunities to complete and discuss observations Provide access and time to discuss your observations and program as well as how you plan your program and undertake observations
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