ED5215 - 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 Master of Teaching.
This subject prepares students for teaching in, and for contributing to the continual reconstruction of teaching in secondary schools. Students will engage in activities in this subject, and in their school-based professional experience, which will develop their abilities to work collaboratively as members of teams, and which will assist in the development of their own personal practical theories for enhancing learning and life outcomes for all learners.Students will consider the diversity of compulsory and post-compulsory secondary school students. Particular attention will be given to varying pedagogic practices, unit planning, 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 in secondary schooling.
Learning Outcomes
- apply a range of theoretical frames to authentic secondary school scenarios and produce effective ethical teaching strategies;
- 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;
- collaborate with a small team to produce and present a seminar critically investigating a contemporary issue in secondary teaching;
- collaborate with peers to frame and investigate a problem related to teaching and critically evaluate alternative responses to it;
- create a curriculum proposal for a junior secondary school, that responds to contemporary curriculum issues;
- critically consider a range of theoretical and policy frameworks and develop skills in using them to produce and evaluate teaching;
- demonstrate the application of professional ethics in teaching practices and reflections;
- develop and use literacies for teaching;
- generate a personal philosophy of teaching and learning, informed by current research and policies;
- generate a personal philosophy of teaching and learning, informed by current research and policies;
- use that personal practical philosophy to evaluate teaching.
| Prerequisites: | ED5211 |
| Corequisites: | ED5212 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | ED4293 |
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| Census Date 31-Mar-2005 | |
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