EDF1060 Introduction to the profession

This unit focuses on introducing education as a profession and will support you with foundational knowledge, skills and understanding, as you embark on teaching as a profession. You will work with a range of structures, educative frameworks and models that support, inform and regulate practice including; curriculum, child safety, professional standards, improvement frameworks and the professional codes of conduct and ethics. You will begin to build your professional skills, knowledge and understandings of teaching through a process of personal inquiry, exploration of diverse teaching practices and legislative requirements. You will explore, plan for, practice and critique, pedagogical strategies such as explicit teaching, collaborative learning and metacognitive approaches to positively and effectively manage teaching and learning contexts. Different pedagogical approaches that draw on a range of case-study and scenario-based examples that demonstrate effective approaches to teaching and learning, will be explored.