Pre-requisites

ED621 Ecology and Management of Learning Environments: Professional Experience 1B
A combination of 6 units from the student’s Major and Minor

Co-requisites

ED631 Curriculum, Assessment and Data: School Observation (5 days)

Learning Outcomes

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

• Investigate the structures of knowledge and perspectives of their specialisation area and challenges of teaching this area, particularly from a Christian foundation

• Apply knowledge of learning theory, student learning, the concepts, substance and structure of the content, and standards of the Australian Curriculum and Victorian Curriculum F-10, including general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities, and the teaching strategies appropriate to your area of specialisation, to organise content into effective and appropriate teaching and learning sequences for secondary schooling and VCE

• Demonstrate the capacity to organise classroom activities, use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to engage students and provide clear directions, select appropriate resources, and plan strategies for using ICT, to expand learning opportunities and support students’ participation and engagement in your specialisation area

• Plan differentiated learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students with varying abilities and characteristics, and develop a range of differentiated teaching strategies that respond to the learning strengths and needs of students with additional needs, including gifted students, and students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, including students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds, applying understanding and respect for their histories, cultures and languages

Unit Description

This unit covers the content, structure and substance of the Victorian and Australian Curriculum Yrs. 7-12. The unit will engage with current knowledge and understanding about the various strategies and features for developing effective lessons to engage a diverse range of students in the secondary years in their specialist area. Students will incorporate appropriate use of ICT processes for enhancing learning experiences in their discipline. Teaching Candidates will develop a critical understanding from a Christian perspective of the various frameworks that have driven and shaped the teaching of their specialist area.

Students in each area of specialisation will be mentored by one or more teachers experienced in their area of specialisation, exposing students to those with recent classroom experience. Relevant teaching strategies for their specialisation will be focussed upon by the mentor teachers.

APST 2: Know the content and how to teach it

Topics

• Knowing adolescents and how to teach them
• Understanding, respecting and responding to student diversity, including protocols
• Strategies for involving parents in educative processes
• Ways of diagnosing needs
• Lesson Planning
• Building on the primary years – an overview
• Getting to know the 7-10 Curriculum
• Getting to know the VCE Curriculum
• Addressing literacy and numeracy learning relevant to the specialisation
• Integrating general capabilities and cross-curriculum as relevant to the specialisation
• History and perspectives of your discipline
• Pedagogical content knowledge of your discipline (teaching strategies)
• Resources commonly used by schools

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Unit offerings

Face to face: Semester 1, 2025 (Every 2nd Year (Odd), Semester 1)

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.