Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy 1
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 24 hours face to face + Blended and Swinburne Online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2022 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
||
---|---|---|
Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Corequisites
Co-requisiteEDU70017 Professional Experience 1
OR
EDU70015 Professional Experience 1
Aims and objectives
Unit Learning Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Research pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning of the discipline areas in secondary contexts.
2. Develop a scoped and sequenced unit of study (with a minimum of 6 lessons) for each discipline area.
3. Critically analyse a range of formative and summative assessment strategies in observing, monitoring, planning and teaching and learning.
4. Communicate how assessment data is useful for evaluating, supporting, and extending student learning.
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]
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Seminar | 4 | 6 | 24 |
Online Contact Online | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities Prescribed readings, Online activities | 6 | 12 | 72 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, Readings Assignment preparation | 15 | 12 | 180 |
TOTAL | 300 hours |
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Specified Learning Activities Prescribed readings, Online activities | 18 | 8 | 144 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, Readings Assignment preparation | 19.5 | 8 | 156 |
TOTAL | 300 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
Portfolio | Individual | 60% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Presentation | Individual | 40% | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
Content
• Contemporary curriculum approaches including the structure and content of relevant curriculum documents.
• Concepts, content and structure of discipline areas.
• Principles of teaching and learning.
• Relevant pedagogical approaches (e.g. productive pedagogies and 8 ways pedagogies).
• Unit and lesson planning in the discipline areas.
• Assessment, feedback and reporting.
- 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.