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Rural and Overseas Placement Information

Rural Placements

Undertaking a placement in a rural setting offers many opportunities for teacher education students. You will certainly get the chance to experience soemthing new, especially if you come from a large metropolitan or even large regional centre, not only in terms of the location itself, but also significant engagement with the whole school and its community. As you are aware, there are significant employment incentives for teaching in a rural and remote school. Undertaking your professional placement in such a location will provide you will essential knowledge, skills and understanding that will be invaluable if you accept an appointment.

Many state governments, as well as CSU, offer incentives for preservice teachers to undertake rural placements. See the CSU, Queensland and Victoria links below. NSW information can be found on the Funding for Placements section of this web site.

Try it - you will enjoy it!

• Inland Education Foundation Rural Professional Experience Grant
• Rural Professional Experiences in Queensland
• Rural Professional Experiences in Victoria
• Early Childhood Internships - Indigenous Community

Overseas Placements

There are a number of opportunities for international workplace learning for Faculty of Education students:

• The Global Leadership and Citizenship Early Childhood Mobility Project offers third year Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood and Primary) students the opportunity to study and live in Europe during Session Two. More details are available here. Note: Applications are closed for the 2013 year.
• Canada Exchange Program
  
  This program provides primary and early childhood teacher education students with the opportunity to study at the CSU Ontario School of Education in Burlington, Ontario, Canada for one session. Students will receive credit in their course for all the subjects undertaken so they will not be behind in their studies when they return.
  
  This program is open to third year students from the B Ed(Prim), BEd(EC&Prim) and BEd(Birth-5) courses, who have a GPA of 4.5 or higher.
  
  There are very generous scholarships that will cover most of the travel and accommodation costs. The Vice Chancellor offers $1,500 scholarships to support students exchange. The Faculty of Education is offering 10 x $2,000 scholarships to encourage students to undertake one session of their studies in Ontario. Details, including application deadlines, are available here.
  
  You can read about the experiences of past Canada Exchange Program participants here.
  
• Various short-term programs (up to 6 weeks in length) have been specifically created for students in the Faculty of Education. These opportunities allow you to experience other cultures, building your understanding of diverse cultural and teaching practices, while practising the skills you are acquiring in your degree. Information about these programs is available on this flyer.
• The CSU Global Student Exchange Program allows you to spend up to two sessions studying at one of our 35 partner institutions around the world. This flyer has information about these exchanges.

More detailed information about international programs for education students is available here.

If you would like to be informed when more details are available about international opportunities, fill out this form and email it to Margaret Hamilton in the Faculty of Education Office or drop it off at the Professional Experience Office on your campus.