Handbook home
Teaching and Learning in Science (EDUC91037)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2022
From 2023 most subjects will be taught on campus only with flexible options limited to a select number of postgraduate programs and individual subjects.
To learn more, visit COVID-19 course and subject delivery.
Overview
Fees | Look up fees |
---|
The Victorian 7 – 10 Biological Sciences Curriculum will be the content focus for this subject. This subject explores the content and pedagogical content knowledge of practical work and investigations. Participants will learn effective teaching methods for engaging students in science including the importance of practical work and demonstrations and utilising multiple modes of representation to enhance learning. Biological Science contexts will be the focus of this subject as participants review the use of commonly used apparatus, designing experiments and laboratory safety.
Demonstrations, experiments and learning activities (including digital technology) will be shared and critically evaluated in order to build an understanding of how practical work can best be incorporated into the science classroom to enhance learning. Frameworks for planning units of work in science which provide differentiation of knowledge, skills, understanding and assessment will be reviewed. This subject will provide participants with a range of practical teaching tasks that are complemented by theory.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate the development of pedagogical content knowledge for teaching Years 7-10 Biology
- Identify, analyse, design, and critically evaluate pedagogies for teaching year 7 – 10 Biology
- Understand, analyse and design approaches to multimodal learning in Years 7-10 Biology
- Critically reflect on research into how students learn and understand the concepts, substance, structure and implications for effective teaching practice of Years 7-10 biology
- Incorporate new technologies as part of multimodal representations to enrich meaning making and communication of ideas in contemporary times.
Generic 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.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into the GC-SCIED10 Graduate Certificate in Science Education (Years 7-10)
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Poster: Re-designing a biology-based practical task
| Mid-teaching period | 40% |
Report: Multi-modal representation of a biology concept
| End of the teaching period | 60% |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2022
Time commitment details
170 hours
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 Graduate Certificate in Science Education (Years 7-10) - Links to additional information
Faculty of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024