ED5221 - Key Learning Areas 2

Credit points:	06
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 4
Administered by:	School of Education

Available only to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma of Education [33506P OR 33506] and Master of Teaching [34604A OR 34604].

This subject addresses principles and practices related to teaching and learning in the Key Learning Areas of Social and Environmental Education, the Arts and Health and Physical Education and Technology for primary aged children for Years 1-7. Students will be involved in activities that will enable them to develop skills and methods required to teach and integrate concepts with other Key Learning Areas. The subject will explore models of inquiry that promote intellectually challenging learning experiences that promote active citizenship on local and global scales.

Learning Outcomes

• develop and evaluate various teaching methods, materials and ICTs as they relate to primary school age children's learning;
• diagnose, value and respond to different individual learning needs in Social and Environmental education, the Arts, Health and Physical Education, Technology taking into account factors such as gender, ethnicity, age, ability, learning styles, behaviour, social circumstance and culture;
• construct and articulate a personal philosophy, regarding the teaching and learning of social and environmental education, the arts and health and physical education;
• demonstrate an awareness of the content and characteristics of appropriate and socially just social and environmental education, the arts and health and physical education curriculum particularly including Indigenous and global perspectives.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to generate, calculate, interpret and communicate numerical information in ways appropriate to a given discipline or discourse;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams.

Prerequisites:	ED5220 and allow concurrent enrolment for ED5220
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ED2194 ED3190

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 28-Aug-2009
Coordinator:	Dr Laikuan Lim
Lecturers:	Dr Linda Ashton, jc208899.
Contact hours:	108 hours - Lectures/Workshops
Assessment:	integrated unit and performance based presentation (25%); portfolio of discipline specific teaching and learning plans and strategies (50%); in-class tests and activities (25%).

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.