Learning Area Humanities 1 (EDUC90445)

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 reflect on foundational research into how students learn and understand the concepts, substance, structure and implications for effective Humanities teaching practice, including the creation of effective learning environments (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.5, 2.1, 3.2, 3.6)
• Understand basic design of lesson plans and learning sequences, using knowledge of student learning, curriculum, assessment, reporting as well as effective teaching resources (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.5, 2.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6)
• Understand how to set Humanities learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics (Graduate Standards 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.6)
• Select appropriate strategies to differentiate teaching to meet specific needs of students, including digital technologies, literacy, numeracy and 21st Century skills in order to engage and empower students in their learning (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.5, 2.5, 2.6, 3.3, 3.4)
• Evaluate Humanities teaching programs to improve learning and to determine the effectiveness of strategies and resources (Graduate Standards 3.3, 3.4, 3.6, 5.1)
• Identify assessment strategies including formal and informal diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess and to support students’ learning of the Humanities curriculum (Graduate Standards 2.3, 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