472-310 Adapting the Curriculum 3A

Credit Points

6.25

Coordinator

Glenda MacNaughton

Prerequisites

Teaching and Professional Practice 2B and Learning and Teaching for Young Children 2B

Corequisites

460-308 Teaching and Professional practice 3A

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Lectures and tutorials totalling 18 hours

Subject Description

This subject will explore teaching techniques and their adaptation to different abilities and learning styles; and a range of learning outcomes in school settings. It will develop linkages with Teaching and Professional Practice and build on the understandings developed in Learning and Teaching for Young Children. The key focus of this subject will be the concept of sustained teaching and its application to the classroom. Lesson planning and implementation based on perspectives of effective learning and teaching for children in the middle and upper years of primary school will be addressed, including writing effective outcome statements, selecting appropriate teaching strategies and resources, and designing and managing the classroom. Issues of diversity in children's learning and development will be examined.

Assessment

Written tasks equivalent to 2000 words.



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