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Year 2 Bach. Teaching.
Credit points: 5.0
Prerequisite: Learning Area (Secondary) 2 subject in the appropriate teaching area.
Corequisite: School Experience & Practice Teaching 3 or Internship A.
Contact: 2 hours of seminars and workshops each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- demonstrate an ability to design, teach and evaluate extended and coherent units of work which cater for diverse characteristics, backgrounds and needs of students;
- demonstrate competent use of a variety of models for both summative and formative assessment purposes which are integrated with the formal curriculum; and
- demonstrate a knowledge and understanding of the curriculum of the specific learning area within the context of the schooling system.
Content:
Students will focus on curriculum theories and development associated with the specific learning area. A program development component will focus on the preparation of sequences of work, use of new technologies, student backgrounds and needs, evaluation, assessment and reporting. The research findings and underlying theories of current curriculum policies in the specific learning area and school systems will be examined.
Assessment:
Written work totalling 2,000 words including a discussion paper of 1,500 words on the major issues for assessment in the learning area and how the different needs of students can be met (80 per cent) and minor written tasks (20 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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