Teaching Experience is an important component of the Bachelor of Education combined degree. Teaching is a professional discipline and pre-service student teachers need the opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become effective practitioners.
The two components of the Teaching Experience program are School Experience and Teaching Practicum.
Over the four years of the BEd, students will be placed in a school for a School Experience of 10 days per semester linked to an education topic in their second year, followed by a Teaching Practicum block of 4 weeks in their third year and a Teaching Practicum block of 6 weeks plus 10 days in their fourth year.
Graduate Entry students will complete the teaching experience placements over a period of two years.
Pre-service student teachers are allocated to government, Catholic and Independent schools/centres for periods of Professional Practice.
All placements of pre-service teachers in schools will be made by School of Education Teaching Experience Centre placement officers. On no account should pre-service student teachers directly approach schools/centres to arrange their own placement.
For information on the basic structures of the teaching experience blocks for Junior Primary/Primary, Middle School and Secondary please click here.
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