Ten days professional experience in the practices, protocols, responsibilities and ethics of the professional art educator provides students the opportunity to extend their understanding of the function and organisation of schools and teaching practice within secondary contexts. The course models a typical high school structure and the concepts and conventions of the working educator are introduced and workshopped. Experts from a range of relevant educational fields are deployed to discuss policy and practice in their respective domains. These include the School Executive, the Child Protection Unit, Occupational Health and Safety, and Information Computer Technology. Students will investigate an individual school as a case study of these professional standards in practice. Each student works with a Cooperating Teacher in a negotiated program of classroom, departmental and whole school activities and responsibilities. Students with increased confidence plan and implement classes for Years 7-10 Visual Arts and Design.