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• About the Teacher Education Professional Experience
• Professional Experience Calendar 2008
• Professional Experience Handbooks
• Professional Experience Evaluation Report
• Contact Details
• Code of Ethics
• Important Professional Experience Information
• Planning for Teaching and Learning: Guidelines for Students

Current students please note:

Could all students make sure that they have handed in their prac reports if they haven't already done so. Those students who have handed in reports can now come to the Professional Experience Office to collect their white copies. Prac 8 students need to supply the Professional Experience Office with a copy of the reference from their co-operating teacher.

About the Teacher Education Professional Experience

Students enrolled in pre-service teacher education programs in the Faculty of Education will complete significant teaching and learning experiences in schools. The Professional Experience program engages students in two interlinked elements: (i) campus based studies examining the range of pedagogical issues, skills and procedures which foster the development of sound professional practice, and (ii) field experiences where students are placed in schools and other educational settings for practical engagement in a variety of teaching/learning interactions.

The following are key features of the teacher education Professional Experience program at UTS:

• The Professional Experience is developmental. It provides a sequence of experiences which build upon earlier teaching/learning achievements and articulate with other aspects of the students' course work.
• The Professional Experience emphasises continuing reflection and self evaluation as integral to teaching as a professional activitiy.
• The Professional Experience is enquiry based and collaborative. It engages teacher education students, cooperating teachers and university staff in focused activities designed to foster a better insight into the phenomena encountered.
• The Professional Experience acknowledges schools and classrooms as sites for UTS student learning, as well as school student learning.
• The Professional Experience is interpretive. It requires that students develop an ability to diagnose, negotiate and act upon what is observed and experienced in and beyond classrooms.
• The Professional Experience is concerned with the development of insight, empathy and understanding. The variety of settings in which students are placed offer many kinds of social and professional interactions.
• The Professional Experience is professionally focused. In each Professional Experience experience, key professional competencies, linked with the students' learning on the campus, are accentuated, practised and analysed.

Professional Experience Handbooks

PRIMARY EDUCATION

Professional Experience 1 Handbook - Beginning teaching – issues in the primary school Subject: 023151
Professional Experience 3 Handbook - Assessment and Evaluation in Education
Professional Experience 5 Handbook - Design of Educational Programs Subject: 023115
Professional Experience 7 & 8 Handbook - Reflecting on Educational Practice & Analysing Current Issues in Australian Education

BACHELOR OF TEACHING IN SECONDARY EDUCATION

Autumn 2008
Professional Experience 1 Handbook 2008

Spring 2007
Professional Experience 2 Handbook 2007

Professional Experience Calendar

Professional Experience Calendar 2008 (PDF 270k)

Professional Experience Evaluation Report

Download the Professional Experience Evaluation Report
Download the Professional Experience Evaluation Report
Download the Professional Experience 6 Evaluation Report

Key Staff Contact Details

 Alan Scully, BEd in Primary Education Professional Experience Primary Course Coordinator
Room 2.319  
Email: Alan.Scully@uts.edu.au
Tel 9514 5408

 Sue Rohanna, Senior Administration Officer
Room 2.394   Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs
Email: Susan.Rohanna@uts.edu.au
Tel 9514 5409   Fax 9514 5410

 Wendy Trethewy, Administration Officer
Room 2.394   Tues/Wed/Fri
Email: Wendy.Trethewy@uts.edu.au
Tel 9514 5289   Fax 9514 5410

 Peter Aubusson, BTeach in Secondary Education Professional Experience Course Co-ordinator
Room 2.287
Email: Peter.Aubusson@uts.edu.au
Tel 9514 5165

 Kirsty Young, Special Education Professional Experience Course Co-ordinator
Room 2.420
Email: Kirsty.Young@uts.edu.au
Tel 9514 5381

Code of Ethics

Professional Experience Code of Ethics (80k pdf)