Learning Area A2 (EDUC90843)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
Contact information
Year Long (Extended)
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
| Availability | Year Long (Extended) |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject builds on EDUC90596 Learning Area A1 and EDUC90597 Learning Area B1 by further developing participants’ capacity to extend their repertoire of general subject specific practices and teaching resources and deepen their understanding of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment of their specific teaching areas. This subject focuses on participants’ understanding of differentiation as a tool to cater for diverse learners and to promote student engagement. Participants build their capacity to assess and provide feedback on student learning using a variety of tools. They are encouraged to reflect on and refine their practice and identify strategies that are designed to improve learning outcomes.
Participants will be supported to focus on the class as a whole and provide differentiated or structured teaching and learning opportunities for all students.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, participants should be able to:
(Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers)
- demonstrate an enhanced ability to use curriculum and assessment knowledge to establish challenging learning goals and to select and organise content into effective teaching and learning sequences (Graduate Standards 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
- understand and comply with relevant legislative, administrative and organizational policies and processes required for teachers according to school stage (Graduate Standards 7.1, 7.2)
- demonstrate an enhanced ability to select, develop and use a range of teaching strategies and tools including ICT that engage learners and progress learning (Graduate Standards 3.3, 3.4)
- demonstrate a capacity to use a variety of assessment strategies to collect evidence of student needs and learning and to use assessment data to plan for future learning (Graduate Standards 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4)
- reflect critically on their own learning, teaching and assessment practices within their learning area and identify implications for their own professional growth as teachers of their Learning Area (Graduate Standards 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4)
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, participants will have the knowledge, skills and understanding to enable them to:
- be skilled communicators who can effectively articulate and justify their practices as knowledgeable agents of change;
- be flexible and able to adapt to change through knowing how to learn;
- understand the significance of developing their practice on the basis of research evidence;
- work in teams with skills in cooperation, communication and negotiation;
- be independent of mind, reasonable, resilient, self-regulating;
- have a conscious personal and social values base.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
| Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDUC90596 | Learning Area A1 | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
18.75 |
| EDUC90597 | Learning Area B1 | January (On Campus - Parkville) |
18.75 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Presentation on Pedagogical Content Knowledge (equivalent to 2500 words)
| July | 50% |
Portfolio of Differentiated Practice
| October | 50% |
| Hurdle requirement: Participation in 4 online tasks (4.5 hours each) | January to November | N/A |
| Hurdle requirement: 100% attendance at all scheduled lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Year Long (Extended)
Principal coordinator Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 13 January 2020 to 23 November 2020 Last self-enrol date 24 January 2020 Census date 31 May 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 2 October 2020 Assessment period ends 27 November 2020 Year Long (Extended) contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
- Related Handbook entries
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 10 February 2024