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Learning Area A2 (EDUC90997)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 18.75Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Year Long
Overview
Availability | Year Long - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject builds on Learning Area A1 and 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
All of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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EDUC90596 | Learning Area A1 | January (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
18.75 |
EDUC90597 | Learning Area B1 | January (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
18.75 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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EDUC90843 | Learning Area A2 | Year Long (Extended) (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Textbook evaluation
| May | 20% |
Presentation on Pedagogical Content Knowledge (equivalent to 3000 words)
| July | 40% |
Portfolio of Differentiated Practice, compiled through year
| October | 40% |
Hurdle requirement: 100% attendance at intensive sessions (whether on campus or online), and a minimum of 80% attendance at non-intensive online sessions | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
- Year Long
Principal coordinator Merryn Dawborn-Gundlach Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours of face to face contact comprising 24 hours of workshops and lectures in two intensives throughout the year and 12 hours of webinars Total time commitment 255 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 23 October 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 May 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 23 September 2022 Assessment period ends 18 November 2022 Year Long contact information
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Teaching (Secondary) Internship
Last updated: 10 February 2024