ED5223 - Curriculum 1

Credit points:	06
Year:	2008
Student Contribution Band:	Band 4
Administered by:	School of Education

Available to Graduate Diploma of Education (One to Ten) [33506T O 33506] and Master of Teaching [34604]students only. Must be completed with ED5218:03.

This subject views curricula as an integrated dynamic based on the four-core curriculum elements of literacy, numeracy, futures orientation and life skills. The Key Learning Areas of the national curriculum that provide a critical focus for study in this subject are Mathematics, Science, Technology and Health and Physical Education. Students will develop their own theoretical and practical concepts and skills in planning curriculum activities with reference to current curriculum perspectives.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate competence to recognise, locate and select appropriate content for use in the development of curriculum activities from the focus KLAs;
• recognise, interpret and critique the diversity of resources that are available for use by students with different needs;
• explore a range of curriculum models that present different perspectives on curriculum development and delivery, including Indigenous perspectives;
• work collaboratively to plan curriculum which references curriculum goals and models.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Corequisites:	ED5218
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ED2193 and ED3192 and ED2190

Availabilities
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 04-Apr-2008
Coordinator:	Dr Maree Dinan-Thompson
Lecturers:	Dr Maree Dinan-Thompson, Assoc. Professor Mary Klein, Dr Hilary Whitehouse.
Contact hours:	39 hours lectures 39 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	other exams (50%); includes component from mathematics, science and health and physical education (50%).

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.