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EPT425 Professional Internship: EC Teaching (Birth-Five years)/Nursing (16)
Abstract| This is a professional service / community internship based subject. It reflects the student's chosen areas of teaching and nursing specialisation. The internship provides opportunities for the student to demonstrate self-sufficiency and independence as a beginning teacher and nurse. This subject will have close links with other final year subjects: Leadership & Management in Early Childhood and Issues in Care and Education. The internship will total 10 weeks placement (4 weeks supervised by a Registered Nurse and 6 weeks mentored by an Early Childhood teacher). |
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Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details prior to contacting their course coordinator: EPT425
Where differences exist between the handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | SY/US | School of Teacher Education |
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Enrolment restrictions| Bachelor of Early Childhood Teaching (Birth to Five years)/Bachelor of Nursing (Final semester of study) |
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| Prerequisite(s) | Incompatible subject(s) |
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| EPT222 | EPT424 |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- master the performance skills in teaching and nursing management and leadership;
- fulfil personal objectives from previous professional teaching and nursing experience subjects;
- engage in self-assessment of developing teaching and nursing skills and gradual induction into the profession;
- assume, through demonstration of self-sufficiency and independence, the roles of a beginning teaching and nursing professional;
- effectively reflect on their own practice in order to plan for and carry out ongoing professional development;
- effectively respond to the needs of children within specific contexts, eg. rural children's services, aboriginal community schools in Northern Territory;
- advocate for all children in a variety of contexts;
- explore professional and ethical practice in a range of settings;
- identify and explore current issues with professional colleagues. |
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
(Through internship preparation and placements totalling 10 weeks)
-Communication skills.
- Personal qualities of teachers and nurses.
- Professional qualities of teachers and nurses.
- Learning, teaching and nursing experiences: planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Induction of a beginning teacher and nurse.
- Professionalism and ethics.
- Ethical responses through the Ethical Response Cycle.
- Child Protection Education and Training: risk, prevention, early intervention, identification, reporting and protection.
- Teaching/nursing management and leadership.
- Information and Communication Technology as a tool in the field.
- Identifying and exploring issues in the field.
- Responding to teaching, learning and nursing contexts.
- Children, families and the community. |
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Work Place Learning| This subject contains a Workplace Learning component. Please contact the subject coordinator for further information. |
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
