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EPE502 - Early Childhood Professional Experience 2

2025

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Education

Credit Points

Equivalent Units

Prerequisites

Must have passed 1 unit in (EPE500, EPE501)

Incompatible

Assumed Knowledge

Unit Description

Preservice teachers will complete a 30 day placement in Preschool and Transition years. Preservice teachers will develop their professional identity, confidence and competence by engaging with research literature; policies; Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum. Preservice teachers will design learning with a focus on relationships, interactions, and guiding behaviour for positive experiences that engage young learners reflective of an emergent curriculum including language and literacy development, numeracy, science, and ICT. They will demonstrate appropriate teaching methods and strategies; play-based pedagogy; assessment for learning and evidence of learning. Preservice teachers will engage in deep theoretical and critical investigations of ethical practice and advocacy in context, such as inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives; safe and supportive approaches to identity; belonging and socially inclusive practice principles enacting the rights and agency of all children. Specific assessable activities are undertaken during this placement. All assessment tasks must be satisfactorily completed to pass this unit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Demonstrate how teacher knowledge, practices, reflection, decisions, and resourcing influence an inclusive, engaging and positive learning environment including learners with special needs.
2.	Demonstrate ethical responses to child development and care needs, guiding behaviour, positive interactions and relationships, social and emotional development, child health and wellbeing, safety and protection and early intervention.
3.	Critically analyse and apply early years theory and evidence-based practice for play-based pedagogies in response to learner diversity, difference, and inclusion needs throughout the planning cycle evaluation.
4.	Analyse and reflect on the design, implementation and monitoring of quality outcomes and how continuous quality achievement is enacted in the preschool environment including outcomes for reconciliation and inclusion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives.
5.	Critically analyse inclusive approaches to curriculum frameworks and foundations in language and literacy development, numeracy, science and ICT for children with diverse backgrounds, including learners who speak English as an additional language.
6.	Investigate, research and reflect on effective support, challenges and assessment of learners for transition and continuity of education and care from preschool and the Early Years Learning Framework into the first year of school and the Australian Curriculum for all children.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Pre-placement quiz (20 questions) (Hurdle)	P/F	6
2.	Report (1,000 words) (Hurdle)	P/F	1,2,3,4,5,6
3.	Portfolio of evidence (2,000 words or equivalent) (Hurdle)	P/F	1,2,3,4,5,6
4.	Mentor teacher reports plus compulsory 30 days professional experience (Hurdle)	P/F	1,2,3,4,5,6

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2025	Semester 1	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR	View
2025	Semester 1	External	External Studies	OLR	View
2025	Semester 2	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR
2025	Semester 2	External	External Studies	OLR

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OLR: Internet access is required for this unit as students are required to access study materials provided on-line through Learnline. Please log into Learnline on the first day of each teaching period. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

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