476-101 Curriculum & Assessment

476-100 Learning & Teaching

460-102 School Experience & Practice Teaching 1T and Learning Area Studies.

Topics include purposes and types of curriculum; analysis of curriculum documents; investigation of changing models of curriculum design and the international trend towards outcomes-based curriculum planning; developing and implementing curriculum that is based on understandings regarding individual development, effective learning, and purposeful teaching; creating an inclusive and appropriate curriculum that is responsive to the needs of all learners and that fosters autonomous learning; purposes and types of assessment and reporting; the influence of assessment on and for productive learning; feedback on, and recording and reporting of, student learning - issues and practices; practical assessment and reporting approaches and strategies; the impact of international assessment and reporting trends on practices in local schools; the links, interaction and tensions between learning, teaching, curriculum and assessment in schools; evaluation of some current curriculum theories and practices in terms of the rationale and reality of learning, teaching and assessment; further refinement of practical teaching and communication skills - incorporating the use of innovative learning technologies - based on an enhanced understanding of the processes of learning, assessment and curriculum; and integrating areas of knowledge and skill that underpin teachers' professional practice, in and out of the classroom.

A series of assessment tasks totalling 4000 words.

A book of readings will be prepared and available to students for purchase. Alternative sources will be cited.