International Teaching and Learning Context

Through participating in an international practicum preservice teachers will examine the country’s language, culture and society. In addition preservice teachers will engage in experiential learning through living in the country and dealing with real-life intercultural teaching and learning experiences. In this unit preservice teachers will be asked to identify initiating questions such as, ‘How is learning shaped in international contexts?’, ‘How does culture impact on teaching and learning?’ and ‘how does an international experience inform my current teaching and learning practices and ideologies?’ In this unit there will also be a series of workshops designed by the lecturer to follow up topics explored in the international classroom experience. All applications to undertake this unit of study must firstly be approved by the preservice teacher’s course co-ordinator at Victoria University.

Where a preservice teacher has received funding to undertake a study tour, there is a requirement that funding assistance must be reimbursed to the university if the preservice teacher does not pass the unit.