Middle Schooling Pedagogies

Postgraduate | 2026

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EDUC 5178
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Course ID
206303
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Adelaide City Campus
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Level of study
Postgraduate
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Unit value
6
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Adelaide University
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Course level
5
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No
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Course overview

This course will develop educators who are able to implement pedagogies that facilitate engagement and learning for adolescent students that reflect a middle schooling philosophy. Students will examine the learning and social needs of the adolescent. They will consider the implications of student diversity in the middle years and develop strategies for relationship building; managing the learning environment; curriculum integration; collaborative learning; working in teams; negotiation; authentic assessment. The students will appraise strategies used to support middle years students develop their literacy and numeracy.

Course learning outcomes

  • Critically articulate middle schooling pedagogies
  • Identify and enact middle schooling pedagogies
  • Develop effective practices to engage adolescent students in learning and assessment that reflect middle schooling principles
  • Develop practices that promote collaborative middle school learning environments
  • Address the diverse needs of adolescent learners including embedding literacy and numeracy support and promoting social skills

Prerequisite(s)

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Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

  • must not have completed EDUC5268 Middle Schooling Pedagogies at the University of South Australia

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