EDUC6056Practicum for Teachers of Children Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Course handbook

Description

Qualified teacher wishing to specialise in Deaf Studies and Deaf Education within the Master of Special and Inclusive Education programme must complete a practicum. Depending on the relevant regulatory authority’s accreditation requirements, the length of the practicum will vary. For most students, the practicum will be 20 days. Victorian DET Scholarship students enrolled in the Master of Special and Inclusive Education are required to complete a 30-day practicum.

Availability2024 Course Timetables

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities;

2. Demonstrate advanced knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance and structure of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area;

3. Organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence;

4. Use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning sequences and lesson plans;

5. Demonstrate understanding of applied literacy teaching strategies and their application in teaching areas;

6. Set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics;

7. Plan lesson sequences using knowledge of student learning, content and effective teaching strategies;

8. Demonstrate an advanced capacity to interpret student assessment data to evaluate student learning and modify teaching practice.

Content

Topics will include:

1. Language and literacy assessment review;

2. Differentiation of habilitation / development and (re)habilitation / remediation;

3. Report writing;

4. Individual Education Plans / Individual Learning Plans;

5. Establishing short and long term goals;

6. Lesson planning;

7. Principles of teaching that facilitate language and literacy remediation/development;

8. Teaching behaviours that facilitate language and literacy development.

Requisite

Students must have successfully completed EDUC6052, EDUC6053, and have completed or be concurrently enrolled in EDUC6054 and EDUC6055 to be eligible to enrol in this course. Students must be enrolled in the Master of Special and Inclusive Education [40123] to be able to enrol in this course.

Assumed knowledge

EDUC6052; EDUC6053; EDUC6054; and EDUC6055Certificate I (or equivalent) Auslan

Assessment items

Portfolio: Teaching ePortfiolio Placement 1
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.

Portfolio: Teaching ePortfiolio Placement 2
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.

Report: Professional Experience Report
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.

Professional Task: Auslan 2 (or equivalent)
Compulsory Requirement: Pass requirement - Must pass this assessment item to pass the course.

Compulsory Requirements

Compulsory Placement and WHS Requirements:

• Child Protection Awareness Training - Students must complete approved child protection awareness training.
• Prohibited Employment Declaration - Declaration that student is not a prohibited person in terms of the Child Protection (Prohibited Employment) Act 1998.
• Working with Children - A national criminal history check and review of findings of misconduct involving children, required for any child-related work.
• Anaphylaxis Training - Students must complete approved anaphylaxis training.

Contact hours

Semester 2 - 2024 - Online

Course outline

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