Pre-requisite: 80280 practicum
This unit seeks to provide learning opportunities which will require student teachers to interact with content related to the instructional and management roles of teachers in classrooms. The substantive base of these learning opportunities will be drawn from classroom management, models of teaching, the generic skills of teaching relevant to such models, studies of classrooms as task environments from an information processing perspective, and teacher thinking. In the design of learning opportunities, there will be a strong emphasis on a constructivist role for student teachers and on the importance of such high level processes as conceptualising, theory building, inquiry, evaluation and reflection. Professional Experience will be a component of this unit.