Assessment criteria on this programme are related to the applied competence of the practitioner, which includes a demonstration of the educator’s ability to practice their profession in an authentic context, the ability to understand their profession theoretical and a capacity to reflect on their practice. Since this programme is an initial professional teaching qualification, at least some of the criteria will reflect that the candidates are still on their way to achieving full applied competence. The criteria reflect, therefore, the intention of the Norms and Standards for Educators to have the different competences developed and assessed in different ways, with different emphases and at different depths. Nonetheless, since the applied competence of candidates on this course is the cornerstone of their practical, foundational and reflexive competence, the most critically important assessment is done during the short-term internship that students are prepared for over a period of three and a half years, and undertake in their final year of study
Integrated assessment:
Assessment procedures may include tasks, assignments, viva voce and poster presentations to class and tutorial groups, syndicate assignments, tests, examinations, analysis of case studies, portfolios of learning materials, evaluated observation of teaching practice during their three-month internship at a school, as well as involvement in service learning (community teaching) projects. Tests and examinations may take different forms, including analysis of case studies, essay writing and production of learning materials and open-book and oral formats
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