Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy 1
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 24 hours Face to Face + Blended + Swinburne Online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
Aims and objectives
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 (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Develop/review evidence-based approaches for effective teaching and learning in the context of the concepts, substance and structure of [METHOD/s]
2. Analyse technological pedagogical approaches that aim to maximise student learning outcomes in [METHOD/s]
3. Design effective teaching and learning sequences and lesson plans in [METHOD/s]
4. Evaluate and apply knowledge of a range of [METHOD/s] assessment strategies
5. Examine the purposeful, creative and collaborative uses of digital literacies and ICT as resources for differentiation and student engagement in [METHOD/s], and as professional tools in teaching [METHOD/s]
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Lecture | 2 | 12 | 24 |
| On Campus Class (Seminar) | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 8 | 12 | 96 |
Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 13 | 12 | 156 |
TOTAL | 300 hours |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Contact Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 37.5 | 8 | 300 |
TOTAL | 300 hours |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Portfolio | Individual | 40% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Portfolio | Individual | 40% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Presentation | Group | 20% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
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 [METHOD]
- Principles of effective teaching for understanding [METHOD]
- Application of [METHOD] 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 [METHOD]
- Digital literacies and use of ICT in [METHOD]
- Differentiation in [METHOD] at the junior and senior secondary school levels
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials/and or text books will be made available in the unit outline