S.L. 327.519 ст. 13Field placement.

(1) There shall be a field placement, comprising a period of observation and teaching in schools and/or other educational settings, under supervision, as determined by the Board in each of the two years of the course.

(2) The Board shall appoint a field placement Board of Examiners for each of the following areas (i) Early Childhood and Primary Education, (ii) Secondary Education (Humanities subjects), (iii) Secondary Education (Science and Technical subjects), (iv) Primary and Secondary Education and (v) Vocational Education & Training with Science and Technical subjects.

(3) Each student shall be assessed by at least two examiners as provided for by the University Assessment Regulations. The number of assessment visits shall be stated in the Faculty guidelines but examiners may increase assessment visits as they deem fit.

(4) Each field placement Board of Examiners shall follow the University Assessment Regulations and any other procedure that the Board may determine for the purpose of field placement, provided that such procedures are in conformity with the University Assessment Regulations.

(5) The Board may assign a field placement Mentor to each student. The mentor shall not be responsible for assessing the student but may be consulted by the field placement Board of Examiners to assist it in the assessment process and deliberation. Other roles and duties of the mentor shall be determined by the Board.

(6) Students are required to conduct a minimum of 210 hours of supervised observations per academic year.

(7) (a) Students are also required to take on full teaching responsibilities under supervision for a minimum of 24 scholastic days per year.

(b) Students who, for health reasons, fail to attend for up to four days should present a medical certificate within 24 hours to the Faculty Office. The medical certificate, drawn up by a medical doctor, should clearly state the ailment which is preventing the student from attending school and should include the name, signature and the medical registration number of the medical doctor.

(c) Where students are away from school for up to four days for health reasons or for any other reason which the Board considers valid, as well as in special circumstances for which prior approval would have been given by their field placement Board of Examiners, they may be required to make up for any missed teaching duties as directed by the Board.

(d) Students who fail to attend five days or more shall either be required to repeat the whole field placement in an additional year or, at the discretion of the Board, may be required to carry out additional days of supervised practice during the same academic year as directed by the Board.

(8) Students who fail the first year field placement shall be allowed to refer the field placement once only to the following year of study. Such students shall then be required to undertake the final year field placement during an additional year of study, under those conditions established by the Board, provided that:

(i) students whose field placement includes the teaching of two teaching areas and who fail to satisfy the examiners in the teaching of one of the teaching areas shall be considered to have failed the field placement but may be allowed to repeat the field placement in the failed teaching area only, if eligible in terms of the Principal Regulations and of these bye-laws, and

(ii) students shall only be allowed to repeat one of the two field placements.

(9) Students shall only be declared to have passed the field placement by the field placement Board of Examiners. The academic and professional judgement of the field placement Board of Examiners is not reviewable.