Overview
Aims at developing students’ professional skills as teachers. Students will engage in critical reflection on their professional practice by documenting their goals, growth, achievement, and professional attributes developed throughout the course of study.
About this paper
| Paper title | Professional Practice Portfolio |
|---|---|
| Subject | Education |
| EFTS | 0.5 |
| Points | 60 points |
| Teaching period | 1st Non standard period (28 February 2025 - 20 February 2026) (Distance learning) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $4,713.50 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Pre or Corequisite
- EDUC 411 or EDUC 412
- Limited to
- MEdLn
- Notes
- (i)Students outside of the approved programmes, with 54 300-level EDUC points, may be admitted with approval from the Dean of the College of Education. (ii)The duration of this paper is 50 weeks.
- Eligibility
Students need to be experienced teachers and be in the MEdLn programme to complete this paper.
- Contact
- postgrad.education@otago.ac.nz
- Teaching staff
This paper is co-ordinated by Dr Keryn Pratt, who teaches in the first semester. From the middle of the year, you will work with one of our teaching staff as you complete your portfolio.
- Paper Structure
This paper aims at developing students’ professional skills as teachers. In this paper students will engage in critical reflection on their professional practice by documenting their goals, growth, achievement, and professional attributes developed throughout the course of study. Students are asked to produce an electronic portfolio, which comprises four pieces of work documenting their learning experiences, as well as their academic and professional development.
- Teaching Arrangements
This Distance Learning paper is taught remotely.
- Textbooks
- Students will be expected to access required readings via the library and the Internet and to source their own relevant readings.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Lifelong learning, Scholarship, Communication, Critical thinking, Ethics, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this paper students will:
- Be able to identify evidence and arguments for and against practices that they already use and practices they could adopt and consider implications for their teaching
- Have developed and refined their capacity to reflect critically upon their approaches to teaching within the context of contemporary research literature and practice
- Be able to use the outcomes of reflection and research to improve their own practices as teachers
- Be able to articulate the personal theories, beliefs and thinking that guide their teaching practices
- Have a willingness and ability to learn and engage in ongoing learning and to appreciate that learning to teach is a lifelong endeavour