Course overview
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.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify wellbeing needs of students in secondary years schooling
- Identify the learning needs of students in the secondary years of schooling
- Develop strategies in managing an adolescent learning environment
- Identify and understand pedagogical practice including assessment and feedback in the secondary years
- Researches their own practice, using data and evidence, to inform their approach to integrated and subject specific teaching, learning and assessment, including when on placement
- Develop strategies for building positive learning relationships that are inclusive of Indigenous culture, cultural identity, and values
- Develop, describe, and implement cooperative and collaborative learning strategies