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485-122 Learning Area (Sec) 2: Additional Mathematics

Year 1 Bach. Teaching.

Credit points: 10.0

Prerequisite: Learning Area (Secondary) 1 or an approved equivalent.

Corequisite: School Experience & Practice Teaching 2.

Contact: 4 hours of seminars and workshops each week.

Timetable: Second semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate a developing knowledge and understanding of the nature of the learning processes and learning experiences associated with a specific learning area and the specialist teaching subjects within the broad area;
• demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the diversity of teaching strategies in the learning-teaching process as they apply to the specific learning area;
• demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the different ways students learn in the specific learning area;
• demonstrate development of their classroom skills, building a repertoire of approaches to teaching which promote effective learning; and
• demonstrate an ability to plan learning experiences and to select appropriate teaching strategies and resources to manage learning.

Content:

Students will focus on how learning occurs and how student achievement can be recognised, assessed and reported in a specific learning area. This will build upon the studies in Semester One. The focus of the study will be program development skills and classroom teaching skills with emphasis on how students learn in the learning area; applying learning theories and curriculum development theories by developing teaching strategies appropriate to the learning area; developing effective learning environments appropriate to the learning area; planning learning experiences involving the selection of appropriate teaching strategies and resources and the management of learning; developing appropriate classroom teaching skills; applying assessment theory and practice to the learning area.

Assessment:

A major paper (1,500 words) on how children learn in the learning area (50 per cent) and the preparation of units of work totalling 2,000 words (50 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

• White R and Gunstone R Probing Understanding Falmer Press 1992
• Baird JR and Northfield JR (eds. ) Learning from the Peel Experience Monash University Printing Services Melbourne 1992
• Curriculum and Standards Frameworks Directorate of School Education Melbourne 1995
• Other reading will be advised appropriate to each Learning Area Study

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