Is anyone here a teacher/recently completed their education degree? I have a question about practicum placement.

This may be only applicable to Swinburne Online but figure I’d ask anyway.

Currently, I do 2 units a trimester and find that comfortable enough with balancing a full time job and a part time child. I’m planning the next few years to get an idea on course work, which units are available in which trimester, etc, and in between all that I have the practicum placements.

Regarding the placement, I’m looking at the unit info and its a full 12 week unit, with 20 days placement and 2 assessments (with 0% weighting - makes no sense, typo or whatever) and was wondering how intense this unit might be because I was thinking if I can squeeze it into a trimester and have 2 units plus the placement unit I can shorten my study plan to get my degree from mid-2028 to early 2028 or even end of 2027.

Hopefully this makes sense.

(also no idea how I am going to get 20 days off x 4 placements with work but that’s another matter.)