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ED4293:03

Integrating Learning and Teaching in Secondary Curriculum

Townsville

HECS Band 1

Please check prerequisites in Master Schedule.
10 hours lectures, 20 hours seminars. Semester 1.

Available ONLY to students enrolled in the BEd and MTeach (Secondary).

This subject prepares students for teaching in, and for contributing to the continual reconstruction of teaching in secondary schools. Students will engage in activities which will develop their abilities to work collaboratively as members of teams, to develop their own personal practical theories for enhancing learning and life outcomes for all learners. Particular attention will be given to varying pedagogic practices, unit planning, assessment and effective establishment and management of learning environments, with a commitment to justice, care and parent and community participation.

Students will critically examine assumptions, key features and legal and ethical implications of a range of policies and approaches to research and practices connected to teaching the diversity of compulsory and post-compulsory students in secondary schooling.

Learning Objectives:

generate a personal philosophy of teaching and learning, informed by current research and policies;

use that personal practical philosophy to evaluate own teaching;

apply a range of theoretical frames to authentic secondary school scenarios and produce effective ethical teaching strategies;

collaborate with a small team to produce and present a seminar critically investigating a contemporary issue in secondary curriculum;

develop and use literacies for teaching.

Assessment by group production and presentation of problem-based learning (25%); an in-class response to an authentic teaching scenario (25%); a critical analysis of video-recorded selections from practicum teaching, in terms of personal philosophy of teaching and learning (50%).