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Compulsory Lecture Attendance Requirement (Distance Campus) 

Regular attendance/ engagement in the identified modules in the Faculty of Education (currently prerequisite or corequisite modules aligned to Teaching Experience) is a professional commitment that should be expected of all teacher candidates and a requirement of professional practice. As an institution, we have a responsibility to ensure that our ITE students are prepared to responsibly engage with school going learners. 

What is the Compulsory Lecture Attendance Requirement 

Excerpt from The Lecture Attendance Requirements for Modules Aligned to Teaching Experience: 

Students will be allowed access to the main School-based Teaching Experience per relevant year if: 

• they have met the 80 % lecture attendance requirement for each of the identified modules as is aligned to     Teaching Experience for that year.  

Dealing with Exceptions: 

In cases where students’ have not met the 80 % lecture attendance requirement for 1 or more of the identified modules as is aligned to Teaching Experience for that year: 

• Students will be expected to achieve a combined 80 % lecture attendance (i.e average) across the     identified modules on condition that no single module attendance falls below 70 %.   

Students who fall into this category will submit a 1-page motivation for Teaching Experience access to The IIE’s Brand School of Education Campus Programme Manager for consideration by The IIE’s Brand Head of School: Education in consultation with The IIE’s Central Academic Team. 

On Education Programmes offered in the Distance mode, lecture attendance is referred to as online engagement. 

What is online engagement? 

Student are required to meet the required number of hours engaged in their compulsory modules online on the Learning Management System (LMS). This includes time spent in the LMS in both synchronous and asynchronous learning. A report is pulled from the LMS for each Student Teacher showing the number of hours spent engaging in each module on the LMS. If the required hours are not met, the Student Teacher will be removed from Teaching Experience, as per The Lecture Attendance Requirements for Modules Aligned to Teaching Experience. 

Which of my modules have a Compulsory Lecture Attendance Requirement? 

Student Teachers are required to access The Lecture Attendance Requirements for Modules Aligned to Teaching Experience available in The IIE Student Teacher Administrative Log (in the Teaching Experience material).   

It is the student’s responsibility to ensure that they familiarise themselves with this requirement and track their engagement in the compulsory modules.  

Please contact your campus Teaching Experience Coordinator If you are unsure how to access this document.