ED3193 - Teaching for Learning 2 (Primary)

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

Limited offering available RATEP students only. Note: some lectures for the Cairns offering of this subject are delivered on-line through LearnJCU and requires students to have access to the World Wide Web for participation in the subject

The focus of this subject will be the implementation of critically reflective practice in developing effective pedagogies. Students will explore a range of professional practices, identified as productive pedagogies and investigate topics of particular professional and personal significance. Implementing an inquiry approach, this subject will involve a range of adult learning modes and contexts, which may include face-to-face or electronic lectures and tutorials; critical reflections; discussions; and collaborative and independent work. Students are required to undertake five (5) days of professional experience. Students enrolled in the RATEP program are required to undertake fifteen (15) days of professional experience.

Learning Outcomes

• further develop skills of critical reflection of personal and professional beliefs about learning and teaching;
• develop the skill and attitudes to engage with colleagues in a community of inquiry;
• refine skills for examining and developing inclusive pedagogical practices.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• 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.

Prerequisites:	ED2488 OR ED2499 AND 42 CREDIT POINTS OF UNDERGRADUATE SUBJECTS
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ED3093 ED3293

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coord/Lect:	Dr Sharn Rocco.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 13 hours workshops/Seminars 5 days professional experience
Assessment:	invigilated assessment (50%); assignments (50%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Satisfactory completion of the professional experience component.
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Face to face teaching (Online tutorial attendance at RATEP site as per schedule to be advised)
Coord/Lect:	Dr Sharn Rocco.
Contact hours:	13 hours tutorials - online tutorials 15 days professional experience
Assessment:	tutorial attendance and participation (20%); assignments (35%); critique (video) (45%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Satisfactory completion of the professional experience component.
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coord/Lect:	Dr Raoul Adam.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures - Flexible delivery (some face to face, some on-line) 13 hours tutorials - (face-to-face) 5 days professional experience
Assessment:	tutorial tasks and participation (30%); assignments (70%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	Satisfactory completion of the professional experience component.

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.