Course overview
This course will enable students to develop their professional knowledge, skills and understandings in teaching Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) and Technologies to children in the early years. Students will develop and critique a knowledge of curriculum frameworks, for example, the Australian National curriculum (HASS and Technologies), and the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF), an understanding of planning and programming, critical analysis of teaching methods, resources for teaching and learning in the early years settings and schooling. Students will focus on the cross curriculum key concepts of sustainability, futures thinking, values and identity. Students will adopt inquiry and play based approaches to teaching and learning.
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse and make cross curriculum connections within a broad understanding of the HASS and Technologies curriculum from birth to eight years
- Demonstrate a syntheses of knowledge of the processes of inquiry skills and play based approaches to teaching and learning in HASS and Technologies
- Critique and connect the key concepts of sustainability, futures perspectives, values and ethics in the teaching of HASS and Technologies
- Design, implement and critically evaluate a balanced sequential program in HASS and Technologies for children aged birth to eight years
- Analyse information about child development to plan investigations regarding children's natural and built worlds