ED2194 - English Education for Primary School

Credit points:	03
Year:	2011
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

Limited offering available only to RATEP students

The basis for this subject is teaching children in the primary school within the subject English across the areas of speaking, listening, reading, viewing and writing, with particular reference to appropriate national and state curriculum frameworks and policies. 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 today's Primary school classroom; a review of children's 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

• demonstrate an awareness of the diversity in classrooms and develop ways of accommodating such diversity in the Primary English teaching and learning classroom context;
• develop skills at modelling how reading, writing, listening, speaking and viewing have important roles to play in life in and out of school in a variety of contexts;
• show an understanding of the changing nature of literacy 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;
• 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;
• be familiar with the English Essential Learnings for Queensland and a range of instructional models for achieving the outcomes set out for children in the primary school years;
• highlight the use of children's literature within a variety of genres, incorporating these in teaching across the five major elements of the subject English.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• 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.

Assumed Knowledge:	Lesson planning skills are assumed knowledge in this subject.
Prerequisites:	6 credit points of level 1 ED subjects
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ED2101 ED2192 ED5221 ED5224 ED5231

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 25-Aug-2011
Coord/Lect:	Dr Geoff Ward.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 13 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2
Census Date 25-Aug-2011
Face to face teaching (Online tutorial attendance at RATEP site as per schedule to be advised)
Coordinator:	Dr Geoff Ward
Contact hours:	13 hours tutorials - online tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 25-Aug-2011
Coord/Lect:	Mr Eric Wilson.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 13 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (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.