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PPA4280 Assistant Teacher Programme in the Middle Years
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Credit Points: 12
Prerequisites:
PPA4180 Middle Years Professional Practice
 
Description:
The Assistant Teacher Programme (ATP) in the Graduate Diploma of Education (Middle Years) is an extended practicum designed to provide the opportunity to experience a full term in a middle school or lower secondary school. The student assumes the role of an assistant teacher and has the opportunity to further acquire and refine teaching skills through working with Year 8 and/or Year 9 classes. By the end of the seventh week of term the assistant teacher is expected to have reached the standard for graduation and to be able to take on 80% of the teaching load of a qualified teacher.

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Last Updated - Higher Education: 30/04/2009 VET: 30/04/2009