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Pedagogy into Practice (EDUC90803)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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Pedagogy into Practice is designed to deepen the basic educational theories encountered in the first year of study and to enhance participants’ ability to develop and implement student centred curriculum content. It provides and develops a general conceptual framework for understanding learning and teaching specific to clinical contexts. It examines how learning can be enhanced from a range of theoretical and evidence-based perspectives. There will be a strong emphasis on the experiential learning afforded by the clinical learning environment. 

Participants will analyse student characteristics to identify learning and teaching strategies that build on individual students’ prior experiences and learning. Participants will investigate the strategic role of the teacher in effective student learning, planning for learning, group teaching, developing a culture of learning and building relationships. Critical reflection, regularly recorded, is a central paradigm for student self-evaluation and professional learning. This subject requires a self-directed approach to learning on the part of the participants.

Intended learning outcomes

By completing this subject, participants should be able to:



  • Review learner centred, evidence-based teaching, learning, supervision, assessment and evaluation strategies for use in the clinical context;
  • Critique and apply educational theory and frameworks from contemporary, evidence based research to own clinical context and teaching practice;
  • Demonstrate collaboration with clinical teachers across the health sciences to achieve best outcomes for learning and learners;
  • Practice teaching and learning activities that are sensitive and respectful of the needs of diverse populations;
  • Engage in reflective practice in relation to their own learning and teaching and integrate reflective activity into the work they design for their learners to undertake.

Generic skills

  • demonstrate cognitive, analytic and problem-solving skills
  • access and use relevant research literature;
  • identify and implement best practice principles
  • demonstrate understanding of the subject in concise oral and written formats
  • demonstrate understanding in concise oral and written formats
  • demonstrate the ability to work either individually or part of a team
  • demonstrate reflective practice and integration of theory into practice through oral and written formats.

Last updated: 19 November 2025