ED3293:03
Inquiries into Secondary Learning and Teaching
| Townsville | HECS Band 1 |
13 hours lectures, 26 hours workshops/seminars, 25 hours of professional experience. Semester 1.
Available to level 3 Bachelor of Education (Secondary) students.
Staff: Dr B Bamford.
This subject further develops preservice teachers’ basic professional knowledge. The subject will consolidate students’ knowledge of classroom planning with particular emphasis upon longer term planning and classroom evaluation. A second component will introduce students to specific models of classroom management with the view to refining individual’s theory of practice and classroom decision making.
Learning Objectives:
- apply educational planning and evaluation skills to classroom practice;
- acquire an understanding of the learning needs of adolescent students;
- ability to articulate an initial personal framework of classroom management as part of the social context of schooling;
- work effectively with colleagues to develop a personal practical theory of teaching;
- ability to reflect critically on professional issues.
Assessment by three short reflective topics (40%); final examination (60%); satisfactory completion of 25 hours of professional experience.