Overview

This unit provides pre-service teachers with a diversity of skills and a depth of knowledge related to literacy and numeracy within the context of Australian schools and curriculum. By engaging in student-directed inquiry into their chosen subject areas, pre-service teachers will analyse and synthesise understanding of the literacy and numeracy demands and conventions of these areas, and plan for literacy and numeracy development within their subject teaching. This learning will be further critically analysed through group responses to scenarios, reinforcing the position that all teachers are teachers of literacy and numeracy, regardless of their teaching specialisation and context.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Critically analyse the teaching of literacy and numeracy and their application across disciplines
  • Differentiate between formal and informal numeracy and literacy learning and thinking
  • Construct processes and experiences that develop literacy and numeracy capabilities within and beyond disciplinary areas
  • Evaluate understanding of the literacy and numeracy conventions and demands associated with particular curriculum areas
  • Design effective communication, using a range of media as appropriate, for specific educational purposes

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Seminar
2.00 6 weeks 12
Online Contact (Phasing out)
Online Class
1.00 12 weeks 12
Specified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Various
4.00 12 weeks 48
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
6.50 12 weeks 78
TOTAL150

Swinburne Online

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning
12.50 12 weeks 150
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 50% 3,4 
Presentation and Response to ScenarioIndividual 50% 1,2,5 

Content

  • What is literacy? What does it mean to be literate
  • What is numeracy? What does it mean to be numerate
  • Multi-literacies
  • New media and literacy
  • Subject area  literacy and numeracy
  • Literacy across curriculum priority
  • Numeracy across the curriculum
  • Mathematical literacy
  • Numeracy concepts and skills
  • Numeracy strategies and activities
  • Effective teaching of literacy and numeracy
  • Effective assessment of literacy and numerac
  • Students with additional needs in literacy and numeracy

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.