Teaching Technologies

Overview

This unit focuses on preparing pre-service teachers to plan, teach and assess digital technologies and design and technologies within in the primary classroom. In this unit pre-service teachers will gain knowledge of the principles, practices and curriculum content and key concepts of teaching digital technologies and design and technologies. Contemporary issues when teaching digital and design and technologies will also be considered.

Unit learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

1. Teach, plan and assess key digital technologies and design and technologies concepts and curriculum content appropriate for primary school environments
2. Evaluate pedagogical approaches in teaching and learning of digital technologies in the Primary classroom, including cross-disciplinary approaches
3. Evaluate and generate learning experiences that reflect relevant National and/or State or Territory curriculum documentation and reflect contemporary pedagogical approaches
4. Evaluate digital technologies and design and technology resources with a focus on student engagement
5. Evaluate a range of assessment and reporting strategies and record keeping instruments within digital technologies and design and technologies in terms of their purpose, benefits, limitations and implementation constraints
6. Analyse how the broader theoretical and societal context impacts upon the teaching of digital technologies and design and technologies

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Assessment

Content

• Curriculum
• Contemporary pedagogical approaches and methods of teaching the technologies
• Technologies concepts
• Principles of teaching, planning and assessing within the technologies
• Resources in the technologies
• Strategies for assessing student learning, including the importance and functions of moderation and providing feedback to enhance learning
• Contemporary issues in Technologies teaching
• Cross disciplinary learning experiences
• 21st Century skills
• Futures thinking