ED5231 - Curriculum Essentials 1: English

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

Available only to students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma of Education (Yrs 1 to 9)

This subject develops students' own theoretical and practical concepts for the teaching of English in the primary and middle school. The subject is designed to equip students with the knowledge, skills and practices to teach and support learning in the 'Ways of Working' and 'Knowledge and Understanding' of the English Essential Learnings. Students develop knowledge and understanding about assessment and standards in the curriculum area of English as well as the acquisition and developmental stages of language and literacy from Years 1-9. The subject also addresses and builds on the concept of literacy as 'core business' for all teachers and explores literacy as an integrating factor across the curriculum

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the English Essential Learnings in the primary and middle school and associated pedagogies for student achievement;
• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of teaching English through employing a range of strategies and effective practices related to standards and assessment;
• demonstrate an awareness of the diverse student population of Queensland and develop quality English teaching practices to meet the needs of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and NESB students;
• employ strategies which explicitly and purposefully promote students' skills in literacy, numeracy and ICT through effective English practices;
• develop a repertoire of practices for the effective teaching of English and literacies from Years 1-9 with an ability to use multimedia texts within a variety of genres and incorporate these into effective teaching and learning programs.

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;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

ED5224

Availabilities
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2011
Coord/Lect:	Mr Eric Wilson.
Contact hours:	39 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	end of semester exam (30%); quiz (15%); resource collection (40%); invigilated component of resource collection (15%).

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.