Teaching English

Overview

This unit familiarises pre-service teachers with teaching English in the Primary classroom through the development of highly proficient content, curriculum and pedagogical knowledge, resulting in highly effective classroom teaching. This unit has a specific focus on contemporary multiliteracy approaches to teaching English, and develops an understanding in pre-service teachers of how to engage EAL/D, gifted and students with diverse needs through the production and application of multimodal literacy texts.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Plan and evaluate English lessons and units using the structure and content of the relevant National and/or State or Territory Curriculum including multi-literacies
2. Examine the development of English concepts throughout the primary years of schooling and relate it to the content of the National and/or State or Territory Curriculum
3. Investigate and plan pedagogical approaches to Literacy in the primary years for diverse learners
4. Develop appropriate and inclusive methods and structures for the planning and assessment of English
5. Compare and critically evaluate the benefits and limitations of various forms of assessment and reporting in English

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Pedagogical structures and theoretical approaches relevant to the teaching of national and/or state curricula for English
• Contemporary multiliteracy pedagogies and the development of multimodal texts for classroom teaching
• Pedagogical strategies for engaging Diverse students (EAL/D, gifted and students with disabilities) in literacy
• Inclusive practices in English through the teaching of critical literacy, voice and learner agency
• Indigenous literacy perspectives and place-based pedagogies
• Literacy intervention practices
• Data informed literacy practice and whole school literacy change
• Advocating for literacy in schools and within school communities.