Undergraduate - UnitEDF4006 - Professional engagement and leadership

This unit provides a transition for students as they move from teacher education into the professional practice of teaching and as such views teacher education as an important part of the induction process for engaging with the teaching profession. Students will be inducted into the notion of what it means to be engaged in the teaching profession through consideration of the nature of teachers' work and of leadership in education. This includes the ethical, professional, industrial, legal, emotional, intellectual and physical dimensions of the work of teachers and educational leaders. Students will critically reflect on their emerging professional identity as practitioners and as potential education leaders, explore the ways in which they can engage with and initiate professional communities of educators in and beyond their immediate teaching setting, identify and develop their literacy, numeracy and information and communication technology (ICT) skills, and prepare for a career of professional learning through synthesising the variety of theoretical perspectives they have encountered throughout their Bachelor of Education degree.