Critical Pedagogies in the Secondary Years

This course will investigate the principles and practices of senior secondary years pedagogy through a backwards by design approach. Students will explore the middle and senior secondary years as distinctive phases of schooling that address the wellbeing and age appropriate needs of learners. The course asks students to develop their expertise by working collaboratively to evaluate and design pedagogical strategies that attend to curriculum demands identified by the Australian Curriculum, the SACE Board and other accredited frameworks by negotiation. This will also involve working on designing learning and assessment which integrates content from across the curriculum or the teaching of a single discipline. Students will be asked to enrich these learning designs through the use of digital technologies and deploying such pedagogical lenses as Indigenous perspectives, critical pedagogy, place-based pedagogy and communities of thinking. The course will support students to address the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in their ongoing e-portfolio work and understand the impact of various reform strategies on building teaching capacity, ensuring accountability, delivering adequate resources and improving learning.