Graduate Certificate in Mathematics Education (Years 7-10) (GC-MTHED10) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Mathematics Education (Years 7-10) will:

• Develop a deep understanding of the Years 7-10 mathematics content in the Victorian Curriculum.
• Develop Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) for teaching across Years 7-10 mathematics, including approaches for addressing the four proficiencies of fluency, understanding, problem solving and reasoning across the strands in mathematics.
• Critically evaluate and reflect on research related to students' learning in Mathematics, using this knowledge to enhance their teaching practice.
• Show an understanding of how to select appropriate strategies to differentiate teaching in Years 7-10 mathematics to meet specific needs of students.
• Make effective use of research findings and evidence-based approaches to inform teaching and to address identified challenges, issues and opportunities in teaching Years 7-10 mathematics.
• Understand how students learn mathematics, and the pedagogies needed to promote their learning, including the use of investigation-based approaches.
• Design lesson plans and learning sequences in Years 7-10 mathematics, using knowledge of student learning, curriculum, assessment and effective teaching resources.
• Develop knowledge of formative assessment in mathematics to diagnose students' understanding and identify misconceptions to inform planning for targeted teaching to cater for all students.
• Demonstrate a good knowledge of resources for teaching Years 7-10 mathematics.
• Use digital technology to deepen students' conceptual understanding and support students to use digital technology for learning in mathematics.

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.

Graduate attributes

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Mathematics Education (Years 7-10) will:

• Be culturally and socially aware (in particular, foregrounding Indigenous Worldviews and engaging with sustainability), and able to establish respectful and ethical relationships with students, staff, families, communities, and the broader school communities.
• Embody the standards of the teaching profession and support the development of teaching as a profession.
• Be practitioners of complex teaching, who teach for growth, wellbeing and citizenship for all students using an inclusive, developmental and post-developmental, relational approach that utilizes deep learning and teaching strategies built on the image of the student as capable.
• Be creative, innovative, self-directed and life-long learners, able to link theory and practice and respond to a changing educational landscape.