ED4293 - Integrating Learning and Teaching in Secondary Curriculum

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available ONLY to students enrolled in the BEd and Graduate BEd (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 Outcomes

• 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;
• generate a personal philosophy of teaching and learning, informed by current research and policies;
• use that personal practical philosophy to evaluate own teaching.

Prerequisites:	ED3488 or ED3492 or ED521166 units of BEd subjects (applies to B.Ed only), including 12 units in each discipline area.
Corequisites:	ED4481 or ED4488 or ED5212
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ED4290 and ED5215

Availabilities
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Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	jc144349.
Contact hours:	10 hours 20 hours
Assessment:	(50% - 100%); (% - 50%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Assessment to be advised.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.