Course overview
This course will explore concepts important to the development of expertise in middle and senior secondary school pedagogy through a backwards by design approach. Students will investigate a variety of pedagogical approaches to be implemented at each stage of middle and senior secondary schooling. The investigations will ask students to design learning which sets performance expectations that acknowledge difference in the classroom and promotes safe learning environments. Each investigation will orient to a different stage of schooling and focus, such as cultural diversity; critical thought; inquiry and integrated learning; accountable communities of practice within and across school subjects; student capacity to act upon their ideas and make connections with the world beyond school. The course responds to the APST for graduate teachers and other reform agendas designed to build teacher resources and skills.
Course learning outcomes
- Establish and sustain positive learning environments that are supportive of student wellbeing
- Understand and demonstrate contemporary instructional design and delivery for middle and secondary years' students: Planning and developing interdisciplinary units of work
- Develop a scope and sequence: Middle to secondary years' subject disciplines
- Understand Cooperative learning: Theory, challenges; use; roles; Information Communication Learning Technologies, (ICLT)
- Build upon the repertoire of teaching skills and approaches that foster purposeful, innovative, and intellectual learning across the middle and secondary years of schooling
- Develop strategies that are inclusive and responsive to the learning needs of students from diverse socioeconomic, cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds