ED2194 - English Education for Primary School
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
Limited offering available only to RATEP students
The basis for this subject is teaching children in the primary school, including Pre-Prep and Prep years, within the subject English across the areas of language, literature and literacy with particular reference to the Australian Curriculum - English and to appropriate state policies and frameworks. 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 children with diverse abilities and backgrounds in today's Primary school classrooms; a review relevant aspects 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 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 Some of your learning will be developed from studies introduced in ED1421 and will be built further to an assured level in ED4496. Skills you learn in planning in ED2491 will be relevant to what you apply in this subject.
Learning Outcomes
- 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;
- demonstrate an awareness of the diversity in classrooms and demonstrate ways of accommodating such diversity in the Primary English teaching and learning classroom context;
- be familiar with the Australian Curriculum English 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;
- use materials in motivating young learners to build new knowledges in age-appropriate ways and contexts; and.
| Assumed Knowledge: | Lesson planning skills are assumed knowledge in this subject. |
| Prerequisites: | 6 credit points of level 1 ED subjects including ED1421 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | ED2101 ED2192 ED5221 ED5224 ED5231 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Leanne Dalley-Trim |
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| Assessment: | assignment - lesson plan critique (15%); assignment - planning activities (35%); centrally-administered final exam (50%). |
| Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2016 | |
| Face to face teaching (Online tutorial attendance at RATEP to be advised) | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Leanne Dalley-Trim |
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| Assessment: | assignment - lesson plan critique (15%); assignment - planning activities (35%); centrally-administered final exam (50%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Assoc. Professor Leanne Dalley-Trim |
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| Assessment: | assignment - lesson plan critique (15%); assignment - planning activities (35%); centrally-administered final exam (50%). |
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