Course overview
Education Research Skills will build on your learning in Research as Teaching Practice (EDUC 2002), to develop the ways that you facilitate secondary student research skills and other sophisticated forms of thinking, including in the senior years. The course prompts you to develop strategies for secondary student literacy and numeracy and how to scaffold student learning when the students work in inquiry mode. You will apply your understanding during your secondary school Professional Placement, report your findings after the placement and subsequently plan for improved student learning.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify skills, challenges, and solutions to assist secondary years' students to use reliable academic sources and pose researchable questions
- As a team, identify skills, challenges and solutions for the development of secondary years' student literacy and numeracy that is relevant to each Learning Area yet with holistic effects
- Identify skills, challenges, and solutions to aid secondary students to develop of critical and creative thinking in specific contexts
- Identify and apply strategies in assisting secondary students to be persistent and resilient with their inquiry learning
- Design learning opportunities in which secondary students acknowledge respectful ownership of research (ethics)