Course overview
This course designed to assist beginning teachers to encounter, reflect upon and simulate classroom practice, and to achieve insight and responsiveness in the flow of classroom interactions. You will examine the various elements that combine to maintain and foster a positive classroom environment and master a range of teacher actions that build the environment as an effective context to encourage learning. Streamable video clips of unedited classroom footage provide rich, real world discussion points. Insights are then applied through your teaching in a simulated classroom
Course learning outcomes
- Research and analyse pedagogical theories and formulate implications for classroom practice
- Demonstrate awareness of current trends in classroom practice for middle/secondary schools
- Identify stages of (adolescent) development and demonstrate a sensitivity to related secondary issues which impact classroom practice, such as student mental health
- Realise the factors involved in student motivation and demonstrate strategies for maintaining student engagement with their learning
- Articulate specific approaches to promote a positive learning environment, both individually and utilizing group processes
- Demonstrate understandings of individual physical, social and intellectual characteristics of students
- Demonstrate an understanding of legal and ethical considerations relating to student care and wellbeing