Learning Area Humanities (Additional) 2 (EDUC90448)

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject teacher candidates should be able to:

Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

• Critically evaluate research into how students learn and understand the concepts, substance, structure and implications for effective teaching practice in the Humanities, including the creation of effective learning environments (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 3.2, 3.5, 3.6)
• Further develop an understanding of how to design lesson plans and learning sequences in the Humanities, using knowledge of student learning, curriculum, assessment, reporting as well as effective teaching resources (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.5, 2.2, 2.3 3.2, 3.3, 3.6)
• Understand and apply principles and practices that inform the establishment of learning goals in the Humanities that provide achievable challenges for students (Graduate Standards 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6)
• Select and evaluate strategies to differentiate teaching in the Humanities to meet specific needs of students drawing on digital technologies and literacy and numeracy and understandings in order to engage and empower students in their learning (Graduate Standard 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3, 3.4)
• Critically evaluate teaching programs to improve learning in the Humanities and to determine the effectiveness of strategies and resources (Graduate Standard 3.3, 3.4, 3.6 & 5.1)
• Identify and evaluate assessment strategies including formal and informal diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess and to support students’ learning in the Humanities (Graduate Standard 3.4, 3.6 & 5.1)

Generic skills

MTeach graduates will develop the following set of key transferable skills:

• Clinical reasoning and thinking
• Problem solving
• Evidence based decision making
• Creativity and innovation
• Teamwork and professional collaboration
• Learning to learn and metacognition
• Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
• Reflection for continuous improvement
• Linking theory and practice
• Inquiry and research

Active and participatory citizenship