Pre-requisites

None.

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate a high level of personal proficiency in English literacy and numeracy.

• Analyse the English literacy needs of EAL/D students (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students) and illustrate ways in which these needs can be catered for in a diverse classroom.

• Propose, develop and analyse assessment strategies to identify and target student literacy and numeracy needs relevant to the subject area.

• Identify and describe literacy and numeracy components of their teaching areas, and present a range of strategies for teaching these components.

• Integrate targeted literacy and numeracy interventions with learning and teaching within the teacher candidates’ learning areas, using a range of strategies to differentiate teaching according to the specific learning needs of a diverse range of student abilities.

Unit Description

This unit explores the emphasis on literacy and numeracy as necessary knowledge and skills for life. The unit examines the essential need for literacy and numeracy competence in order for young people to successfully engage with all disciplines across the curriculum. Students completing this unit will examine the general and subject specific literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills that need to be explicitly taught or implicitly present and modelled in the teaching of each curriculum area. The unit covers strategies for planning and embedding literacy and numeracy learning within all curriculum areas, with students specifically focusing on effective literacy and numeracy teaching relevant to their major and minor subject specialisations.

The unit covers strategies for assessing and identifying the diverse literacy and numeracy learning needs of young people and current research on best practice in interventions to improve their literacy and numeracy knowledge and skills. The unit also addresses the students’ own literacy and numeracy learning to extend their proficiency in these areas.

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Unit offerings

Face to face: (Every Year, Semester 2)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.