Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy 1

Overview

This unit aims to prepare pre-service teachers to plan and teach in their discipline drawing on key curriculum documents. In this unit, students gain knowledge of the principles and practices of teaching and learning. Working with key curriculum documents, pre-service teachers will evaluate contemporary approaches to secondary teaching contexts. They will explore a range of formative and summative assessment practices and strategies for observing, monitoring and planning for teaching and learning -service teachers will also explore feedback principles and reporting in the discipline contexts.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Evaluate evidence-based approaches for effective teaching and learning in the context of the concepts, substance and structure of Specialist Teaching Areas
2. Analyse technological pedagogical approaches that aim to maximise student learning outcomes in Specialist Teaching Areas
3. Design effective teaching and learning sequences and lesson plans in Specialist Teaching Areas
4. Evaluate and apply knowledge of a range of Specialist Teaching Areas assessment strategies

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Contemporary secondary teaching contexts related to Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK).
• Discipline-specific structure, content, concepts and skill development in the Specialist Teaching Area of each student.
• Principles of effective teaching for understanding related to specific Specialist Teaching Areas.
• Application of Specialist Teaching Areas of each student and related pedagogical approaches. 
• Unit planning: template types and unit evaluation 
• Assessment strategies and discipline-specific feedback that can support and enhance students’ learning outcome in Specialist Teaching Areas of students.