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Literacy Assessment and Learning (EDUC90777)

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This subject will highlight the significance of literacy assessment and teaching to meet the individual learning needs of primary school students.

Topics will include: the social and cognitive factors that impact on primary school students’ literacy development and a review of related research; the key role of assessment in profiling students’ learning and the importance of targeted interventions in literacy.

Teacher Candidates will undertake an analysis of a range of assessment practices used to identify the literacy needs of students, including diagnostic and standardised tests and the evaluation of various forms of work samples against state curriculum standards. They will investigate literacy teaching programs and approaches, differentiated for particular student groups within classroom contexts, which may then be generalised to curriculum implementation for improved outcomes more broadly.

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 review and reflect on educational theory and research which highlights literacy interventions designed to target students' learning needs (Graduate Standards 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 4.1)
  • Analyse and interpret a range of assessment and diagnostic data to make sound and informed judgements about students' learning needs and related teaching interventions (Graduate Standards 5.1, 5.3, 5.4)
  • Design interventionist teaching to meet students' diverse learning needs (Graduate Standards 2.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4)

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.

Last updated: 9 September 2024