Learning Area Mathematics 1 (EDUC90457)

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.

• Begin to critically reflect on research into how students learn and understand the concepts, substance, structure and implications for effective teaching practice in Years 7-10 mathematics, including the creation of effective learning environments (Graduate Standards 1.2, 2.1)
• Understand how to design lesson plans and learning sequences in Years 7-10 mathematics, using knowledge of student learning, curriculum, assessment, reporting as well as effective teaching resources (Graduate Standards 2.2, 2.3 & 3.2)
• Understand how to set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics (Graduate Standards 3.1)
• Show an understanding of how to select appropriate strategies to differentiate teaching in Years 7-10 mathematics to meet specific needs of students, drawing on digital technologies and literacy and numeracy understandings in order to engage and empower students in their learning (Graduate Standards 1.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3 & 3.4)
• Evaluate teaching programs relevant to in Years 7-10 mathematics in order to improve learning and to determine the effectiveness of strategies and resources (Graduate Standards 3.6)
• Introduce assessment strategies including formal and informal diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess and to support students’ learning in Years 7-10 mathematics (Graduate Standards 5.1 & 5.4)

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