School of Education

Primary Professional Experience 3 - Final PEx

UQ Course: EDUC7540

UQ ProgramMaster of Teaching (Primary) | FINAL Year / FINAL PEx
Duration25 days - 5 week block 
Dates10 Aug - 11 Sept
Teaching Load Requirements:
  • Week 1: The first 2 days are for observation and settling into the school environment and context, as well as planning and consulting with Supervising Teacher(s) for future teaching. Commence teaching lesson segments mid-week and progress towards a full lesson.
  • Week 2 – 5: Commence sequences of lessons. Pre-service Teachers should be at 50% of a full-time teaching load which will continue until the end of the placement.
  • Observations and reflective practice are to be completed throughout the placement.
  • Area of Specialisation: Please note that all Pre-service Teachers within the Masters of Teaching (Primary) program have an area of specialisation of either English and literacy OR Mathematics and numeracy. During the EDUC7540 final professional experience placement, Pre-service Teachers must have an opportunity to demonstrate the teaching of their area of specialisation throughout their placement. Supervising teachers must provide comments on their final report about their performance and ability within this area of specialisation.
  • Teaching load: Please note that Pre-service Teachers do not need to teach more than a 50% teaching load unless this has been negotiated between the Pre-Service Teacher and the School. If students and schools are in agreement that they would like to increase this teaching load as the professional experience progresses, UQ is happy to support this. 
  • Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA): The Teacher Performance Assessment is a mandatory external task that all final-semester Education students in Australia must undertake to graduate. Pre-Service Teachers must have the opportunity to undertake their GTPA data collection in their area of specialisation to meet the GTPA requirements..

Please see below the requirements for the GTPA:

  1. A minimum of a sustained four week unit of work in the pre-service teacher area of specialisation with the opportunity to conduct an assessment at the end of the unit. If the summative assessment does not take place during Term 3, pre-service teachers can create a formative assessment to use with students at the conclusion of their teaching of the unit.
  2. Pre-service teachers do not need to teach the full unit or even the beginning of the unit. They can begin their GTPA unit within the first two weeks of their placement.
  3. Pre-service teachers will need to collect some initial data for planning. Some examples of this data may include: NAPLAN data, previous summative assessment results, previous work samples, pre-test (this can be designed by the pre-service teacher), attendance data, behavioural data, discussions with supervising teacher and other relevant staff, observations etc. Please note that all data used within the GTPA is de-identified so that the school and students are not identifiable. We also understand that not all schools are comfortable sharing some of this data. We can work with the pre-service teacher to select data types that the school is comfortable with the pre-service teacher using and will also allow the pre-service teacher to collect the data they need to successfully complete their assignment. 
  4. The pre-service teacher will select three focus students (these students are not aware of this) to discuss in the GTPA.
  5. Continuous data collection will take place during the teaching and assessing cycle (formative and summative assessment).
  6. The pre-service teacher will need to include a copy of the three focus students’ summative work samples in their GTPA submission. These work samples will be de-identified.
  7. Moderation of the three focus students’ summative work samples will take place between the pre-service teacher and the supervising teacher.
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