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Preparing for Professional Experience Flipped Collaborate Recording:

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Preparing for Professional Experience Flipped Collaborate Recording:

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IMPORTANT!

Preparing for Professional Experience - Week 2
Wednesday 23rd March at 8.00pm AEDST

Assignment 1: Portfolio - Week 5
Tuesday 12th April at 8.00pm AEDST

Assignment 1: Portfolio Q&A - Week 9
Tuesday 17th May at 8.00pm AEDST

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You are expected to attend the setting for a full work day (7 hours plus 30 minutes for your lunch break).  At a minimum you will have 5 hours contact with children each day and 2 hours of non-contact programming time.

This is a guide only and will vary between each setting.  You need to work with these expectations as well as what your centre expects from you and work with.

I.e. if they only have 2 hours of non-contact programming time per week you are expected to work in line with this.

This will help you to gain an understanding of the different workplaces and different teaching awards and standards across Early Childhood.

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Preparing for Professional Experience Flipped Slides:

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Preparing for Professional Experience Flipped Slides:

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Important information about your Portfolio assignment.

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Important information about your Portfolio assignment.

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It is important that you take on the feedback from your mentor teacher and other educators that you engage with.
Sometimes this may be confronting and you may not like what they say, but utilise the feedback.  They are not trying to be malicious, they are trying to help you to ensure that you are able to meet the outcomes in your final report.  So if they ask you to start doing something or try something else it's because they feel it will help you demonstrate your abilities and meet the outcomes so that you can pass your report.

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Don't wait for your mentor teacher or other educators in the room to ask you to do something.  In the first week ask if there is something that you can assist with, get down to the children's level and engage and talk with them.  Start to build those relationships early.  As the weeks progress and you learn the routines or the room/setting jump in and help without being asked.  I.e. Sweeping up after lunch, reading a book before a mealtime (if that's what they do) etc...

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Mentor teachers and other educators at your setting will be looking at the way you dress, as well as the way you conduct yourself.

Top tips:
- Always have your phone on silent/off and in your handbag/staff room (where ever the other educators have their personal belongings)
- Use a strength based language when communicating about the children at the setting
- Always use appropriate language and tone of voice with the educators, families and children at the setting
- Make sure you check what the setting sees as appropriate attire BEFORE you start

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Placement Expectations and Requirements - 10 days full time:

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Placement Expectations and Requirements - 10 days full time:

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You are expected to utilise the placement expectations and requirements, as the minimum standards for your placement, dependent on the course that you are enrolled in and completing.

Your SOL placement expectations should be communicated by you with your setting and any questions answered.  You cannot say that you do not know, please ensure you have clarified all information prior to visiting your setting.

If your setting does ask a question that is not outlined in the expectations pack please clarify this with your eLA or UC and provide the setting with an answer ASAP.

Placement Expectations and Requirements - 20 days full time:

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Here is the blank template that you are required to use for this assignment.  It is to be completed in a word document and none of the headings or descriptors are to be removed.

Your headings are NOT included in the word count.  The total for the headings and descriptors is: 370 words, so you can add this onto your total word count.

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Hi everyone,
I've linked the assignment supports into the padlet as well so it's all in one easy place.

Referencing guide
Assignment support
Learning plan early childhood template
Curriculum plan template A
Curriculum plan template B
Summary of observations
Lesson plan guide
Early Years Learning Framework

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This is the curriculum plan that SOL have provided.

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For your 5 individual and 5 group observations please use this sheet to summarise the key information and interests that you have noticed in your observations.  This will greatly reduce the size of your word doc. The red writing can be removed as it is an example.

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This website outlines the expectations of professional practice for teachers in Victoria. If you are completing placements in other states or territories check the Professional Codes of Conduct for the teacher registration body in your state or territory.

https://www.vit.vic.edu.au/professional-responsibilities/conduct-and-ethics

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This is for your reference throughout your placement units.
Please read through this prior to starting your placement

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Here is a screen cast for writing evaluations and reflections.
Here is the YouTube recording
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTi2-f0YGg

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This is the permission form for you to use to gain permission from families to observe their child.These are not required to be included in the assignment.

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This should be placed in a predominant place in the centre so families are aware you are completing placement at the centre.

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There are no specific SOL templates for observations.  This will be something that you need to discuss and learn about from your mentor teacher/setting, as all settings are different and have different requirements.  This will allow you to build a resource of observation templates/styles.  And will help you understand the settings planning cycle.

There are some observation templates you can use, if your centre doesn't have a preferred style, which are great.
Here's the link:
https://www.qcaa.qld.edu.au/kindergarten/samples-templates

https://aussiechildcarenetwork.com.au/eylf-templates

You are however, required to utilise the 'Summary of Observations' template as above.

Don't forget you MUST show your mentor teacher/team leader your learning plans and documentation throughout your placement.
Your learning plans MUST be shown a MINIMUM of ONE FULL DAY prior to you implementing them.

Failure to do so may result in a failed placement as you have not met the expectations outlined and your mentor teacher will not be able to assess you against the outcomes in the report.

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Here is a copy of the attendance diary, if you wish to document the hours at Placement. Some centres may require this from you for insurance purposes, but SOL does not need any records of attendance.

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If you have any issues, clarifications or concerns surrounding your placement please send an email to your eLA who will advise you the best course of action.

If you have a major concern or do not think you can continue your placement at your centre please contact myself (Danielle - dhayden@swin.edu.au) and the student advisors and we will advise you what to do next.  You can do this as one email and CC myself or the student advisors in the email (this will save you some work).

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You must contact the student advisors if you are absent from the centre any of the days during your placement.  You must inform them of your absence and the expected practicum completion date. Any change of dates of attendance, mentor teacher information changes etc MUST be given to the Student Advisors, so they can update your records for insurance.

Student advisors email is: help@swinburneonline.com or click on the Help Hub tab in Canvas.

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You are able to use headings, colour etc... just ensure that it is easy for your eLA to read so they can mark it appropriately.  Try to use 1.5 or double spacing where you can so ensure ease of marking too.

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Hi everyone,
Here is an example of another student's work (shared with permission) for this assignment.  It isn't perfect but it provides you with a basis of what we are looking for and will help you pick out the good parts and extend on and develop the areas you feel could be further extended.

When you read through have a think about the criterion and how you think it fits and what areas could be further developed and what you think was completed really well.

Then think about how you can apply this knowledge to your own learning plan.

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This is a template for an emergent curriculum plan.