Inquiry Learning in the Humanities (EDUC90883)

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.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the Humanities learning area in the Victorian Curriculum (Graduate Standards 2.1, 2.4)
• Demonstrate knowledge of Humanities and student-centered pedagogies.
• Enrich the teaching and learning of Humanities through the development of inquiry-based curriculum for primary students (Graduate Standards 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 5.1, 7.4)
• Demonstrate the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes they intend to teach in the Humanities (Graduate Standards 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1)
• Be able to identify the ways in which Humanities can be integrated across the curriculum in primary schools (Graduate Standards 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6)
• Begin to critically analyse their own and others’ values, attitudes and beliefs in relation to local and global issues (Graduate Standards 1.3, 2.4)
• Use a range of digital and design technologies and blended learning resources to cater for a diversity of needs and purposes (Graduate Standards 2.6, 3.4)

Generic skills

On completion of the subject, Teacher Candidates 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