School Experience: Secondary BEd (EDU3163)

Points: 

2

Enrolment Options: 

Murdoch: DE1-external

[see Teaching Periods and Census Dates] 

Description: 

Students undertake a total of ten days School Experience distributed over the first five weeks of school term 4. This is an opportunity for students to build on their developing theoretical and practical understandings of the teaching/learning context of secondary schools and classrooms. They will be required to undertake an action learning project in the school where they are placed and attend pre- and post-school experience meetings.

Contact time: 

10 days over 5 weeks. Days are to be negotiated with the school.

Prerequisites: 

Students must be enrolled in the BEd (Secondary) and have successfully completed EDU101/EDU1011 Introduction to Teaching and either EDU241 Processes of Learning OR be enrolled in or have completed EDU242 Learning and Assessment: Theory and Practice.
Students must have both a current WA Department of Education National Criminal History Record Check and a Working with Children (Criminal Record Checking) Act 2004 clearance from the Department of Community Development on file in the Murdoch University School Experience (MUSE) Office prior to commencement of this unit.
Co-requisite: Internet access if studying externally.

Exclusions: 

Students enrolled in the GradDipEd (Secondary) should not enrol in this unit.

Assessment: 

A result of Ungraded Pass or Fail is awarded for this unit.

Used in these Courses: 

Education (BEd) [Secondary Teaching] (Four Years)
Education (BEd) [Secondary Teaching] + Sports Science (BSportsSc)