ED2094 - English Education for Early Childhood

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	National Priority Band
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Compulsory for all students specialising in the Early Childhood area, studying at the Graduate Bachelor of Education level.

The basis of this subject is teaching young children in subject English across the areas of listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing, with particular reference to the Queensland syllabus for English in Years 1 to 10. Topics include a critique of several models of instruction which influence teaching across the language/literacy area, with a view to maximising learning opportunities for all children in todays classroom; a review of childrens literature; investigation of a variety of text forms; issues of language diversity and learning styles and their impact on best teaching practice and a variety of means for assessing and reporting such learning. There is a focus on meaning and relevance within the schooling and other contexts, as the basis for selecting literacy instructional techniques and materials to be used. Consideration of the profound changes in literacy demands for children today and the major role media and technology play are featured.

Learning Outcomes

• be familiar with the English in Years 1 to 10 Syllabus for Queensland and a range of instructional models for achieving the outcomes set out for children in the Early Childhood years;
• develop skills at modelling how reading, writing, listening, speaking and viewing have important roles to play in life out of school in a variety of contexts;
• highlight the use of childrens literature within a variety of genres and incorporate these in teaching across the five major elements of the subject English;
• show an understanding of the changing nature of liter acy demands today and means of teaching, assessing and reporting these dynamics;
• use materials in motivating young learners to build new knowledges in age-appropriate ways and contexts;
• demonstrate an awareness of the diversity in classrooms and develop ways of accommodating such diversity in the Early Childhood English teaching and learning context;
• use this knowledge to build on a personal theory of English language and literacy that will inform the future classroom praxis for the teacher, including planning, assessment and reporting strategies.

Prerequisites:	6 units of level 1 ED subjects
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ED2001 and ED2092

Availabilities
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Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coord/Lect:	edcjs.
Contact hours:	26 hours 13 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (30%); (30%).
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Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coord/Lect:	edgew.
Contact hours:	26 hours 13 hours
Assessment:	(60%); (30%); (10%).
, Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coord/Lect:	edcjs.
Contact hours:	13 hours
Method of Delivery:	WWW - LearnJCU
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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.