Course overview
The focus of this course and its companion Curriculum and Pedagogy is learning and teaching theory and its application in practice for teaching. This includes planning, developing and assessing learning for diverse student cohorts in line with the Australian and SACE Curriculum requirements in this subject specialisation.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate deep knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance, and structure of the content area and the complexity of the discipline teaching strategies in the learning area.
- Design and sequence unit and lesson plans based on essential content of the subject area, curriculum and assessment principles.
- Demonstrate understanding of assessment, moderation, and its application to support consistent and comparable judgments of student learning, and so as to modify teaching practices.
- Integrate relevant research and theory to develop a broad repertoire of subject-appropriate teaching and learning strategies, including the use of ICT.