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    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 (15 January 2024 - 13 December 2024) (Distance learning)
    Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) $4,446.50
    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:

    1. 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
    2. Have developed and refined their capacity to reflect critically upon their approaches to teaching within the context of contemporary research literature and practice
    3. Be able to use the outcomes of reflection and research to improve their own practices as teachers
    4. Be able to articulate the personal theories, beliefs and thinking that guide their teaching practices
    5. Have a willingness and ability to learn and engage in ongoing learning and to appreciate that learning to teach is a lifelong endeavour

    Timetable

    1st Non standard period (15 January 2024 - 13 December 2024)

    Location
    Dunedin
    Teaching method
    This paper is taught through Distance Learning
    Learning management system
    Blackboard
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