Overview

This unit advances pre-service teachers’ readiness for teaching their two discipline areas in secondary school contexts. They undertake guided and independent investigations to advance their knowledge and skills in planning, teaching and assessment. They examine purposeful ways to include the general capabilities, cross curriculum priorities, numeracy, literacy and ICT in their subject areas. Pre-service teachers further evaluate contemporary approaches to secondary teaching and learning that support the inclusion of diverse students across a range of abilities.

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Analyse and integrate subject expertise and particular pedagogical approaches of the discipline areas to engage students in learning
  • Design an effective unit of work for each discipline area, drawing on a variety of resources, relevant curricula, general capabilities and cross curriculum priorities
  • Develop an assessment plan within each scope and sequence that includes informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches
  • Design differentiated learning and modified teaching pathways that take into account assessment data as well as the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
  • Critically evaluate curriculum and pedagogy approaches into how students learn in secondary contexts, including the intellectual, physical, and social development of diverse learners

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Live Online
Lecture		2.00 12 weeks 24
On-campus
Class		2.00 12 weeks 24
Specified Activities
Various		8.00 12 weeks 96
Unspecified Activities
Various		13.00 12 weeks 156
TOTAL300

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 40% 1,2,3,4,5 
PortfolioIndividual 40% 1,2,3,4,5 
PresentationGroup 20% 1,3,5 

Content

  • Advanced curriculum and pedagogical approaches
  • Alignment principles: learning intentions, success criteria and formative assessment
  • Assessment strategies: including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative
  • Concepts, content and structure of discipline areas.
  • Contemporary secondary teaching contexts related to Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK).
  • Cross curriculum priorities, General Capabilities, Literacy, Numeracy and ICT across the curriculum.
  • Differentiated teaching methods
  • Feedback and reporting strategies including observing, monitoring, planning for teaching and learning.  
  • Moderation practices
  • Planning for meeting specific and diverse learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
  • Unit and lesson planning in the discipline areas.

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.