TEAC 3024 Professional Portfolio 3: Management and Leadership
Credit Points 10
Legacy Code 101624
Coordinator Denise Fraser Opens in new window
Description This unit involves a 25 day placement in a long day care setting with children from birth to five years of age. Students are required to reflect on their own learning and the potentials and challenges of the early childhood setting to develop appropriate goals and a relevant action research project. The focus of this unit is philosophy development, curriculum design, pedagogical leadership and reflective practice.
School Education
Discipline Teacher Education: Early Childhood
Student Contribution Band HECS Band 1 10cp
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Level Undergraduate Level 3 subject
Pre-requisite(s) TEAC 2051
Restrictions Students must be enrolled in program 1670 Bachelor of Education (Birth - 5 Years).
Learning Outcomes
- Articulate a strong philosophy of teaching and approaches to curriculum and implement these through the use of appropriate pedagogies;
- Draw on current research and policy to design, implement and evaluate curriculum for children birth -5 years;
- Demonstrate strategies for developing collaborative partnerships with children, educators, families and communities that underpin respectful, responsive care and education
- Assume a critically reflexive pedagogical leadership role within the early childhood setting, that demonstrates the potential to undertake the role of a beginning early childhood teacher;
- Undertake collaborative centre-based research that builds on contemporary curriculum and policy frameworks; and
- Demonstrate initiative and negotiation skills in interactions with staff, families and communities.
Subject Content
- team work and negation
- Working within A professional team as A team member, leader and researcher
- collaborative research
Module 2: Pedagogical leadership
- using tools of curriculum analysis and reflective practice to localise and develop own philosophy and approaches to curriculum
- teacher as researcher and reflexive practitioner Working towards developing Critical pedagogies
- Reflexive curriculum decision-making;
- application of approaches to curriculum evaluation and improvement (e.g. Collective Biographies, action research, quality assurance)
Special Requirements
Legislative pre-requisites
Students must have completed an approved Child Protection workshop prior to enrolling in this subject.
Assessment
The following table summarises the standard assessment tasks for this subject. Please note this is a guide only. Assessment tasks are regularly updated, where there is a difference your Learning Guide takes precedence.
| Item | Length | Percent | Threshold | Individual/Group Task |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional Practice and Portfolio | 3,000 words | 100% | N | Individual |
Teaching Periods