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Learning Area A2 (EDUC90997)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 18.75On Campus (Parkville)

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Overview

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This subject builds on Learning Area A1 and Learning Area B1 by further developing participants’ capacity to extend their repertoire of general subject specific practices and teaching resources and deepen their understanding of curriculum, pedagogy and assessment of their specific teaching areas. This subject focuses on participants’ understanding of differentiation as a tool to cater for diverse learners and to promote student engagement. Participants build their capacity to assess and provide feedback on student learning using a variety of tools. They are encouraged to reflect on and refine their practice and identify strategies that are designed to improve learning outcomes.

Participants will be supported to focus on the class as a whole and provide differentiated or structured teaching and learning opportunities for all students.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, participants should be able to:

(Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers)

  • Demonstrate an enhanced ability to use curriculum and assessment knowledge to establish challenging learning goals and to select and organise content into effective teaching and learning sequences (Graduate Standards 3.1, 3.2, 3.3)
  • Understand and comply with relevant legislative, administrative and organizational policies and processes required for teachers according to school stage (Graduate Standards 7.1, 7.2)
  • Demonstrate an enhanced ability to select, develop and use a range of teaching strategies and tools including ICT that engage learners and progress learning (Graduate Standards 3.3, 3.4)
  • Demonstrate a capacity to use a variety of assessment strategies to collect evidence of student needs and learning and to use assessment data to plan for future learning (Graduate Standards 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4)
  • Reflect critically on their own learning, teaching and assessment practices within their learning area and identify implications for their own professional growth as teachers of their Learning Area (Graduate Standards 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4)

Generic skills

On completion of this subject, participants will have the knowledge, skills and understanding to enable them to:

  • be skilled communicators who can effectively articulate and justify their practices as knowledgeable agents of change;
  • be flexible and able to adapt to change through knowing how to learn;
  • understand the significance of developing their practice on the basis of research evidence;
  • work in teams with skills in cooperation, communication and negotiation;
  • be independent of mind, reasonable, resilient, self-regulating;
  • have a conscious personal and social values base.

Last updated: 10 February 2024

Eligibility and requirements

Prerequisites

All of

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
EDUC90596 Learning Area A1
Not available in 2024
 18.75
EDUC90597 Learning Area B1
Not available in 2024
 18.75

Corequisites

None

Non-allowed subjects

Code Name Teaching period Credit Points
No longer available

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

DescriptionTimingPercentage

Textbook evaluation

  • 1500 words
May20%

Presentation on Pedagogical Content Knowledge (equivalent to 3000 words)

  • 30 minutes
July40%

Portfolio of Differentiated Practice, compiled through year

  • 3000 words
October40%
Hurdle requirement: 100% attendance at intensive sessions (whether on campus or online), and a minimum of 80% attendance at non-intensive online sessionsThroughout the teaching periodN/A

Last updated: 10 February 2024

Dates & times

  • Year Long
    Principal coordinatorMerryn Dawborn-Gundlach
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hours36 hours of face to face contact comprising 24 hours of workshops and lectures in two intensives throughout the year and 12 hours of webinars
    Total time commitment255 hours
    Teaching period15 January 2024 to 20 October 2024
    Last self-enrol date26 January 2024
    Census date31 May 2024
    Last date to withdraw without fail20 September 2024
    Assessment period ends15 November 2024

    Year Long contact information

    merryn.dawborn-gundlach@unimelb.edu.au

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    Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.

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:

    TypeName
    CourseMaster of Teaching (Secondary) Internship

Last updated: 10 February 2024