Pre-requisites

ED920 Development Learning and Pedagogies
ED921 Ecology and Management of Learning Environments

Co-requisites

Learning Outcomes

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

• Apply specialised knowledge to plan and critique unit scope and sequence for Humanities based on state and national curriculum content, student learning needs, effective teaching strategies and integrating relevant aspects of literacy, numeracy and Christian perspectives.

• Communicate advanced knowledge and understanding of the concepts, structure and substance of Humanities as a discipline.

• Critically analyse and evaluate integrated curriculum and assessment for the primary years of schooling appropriate to Humanities.

• Apply expert judgement to analyse and interpret student data, and develop and evaluate strategies for teaching Humanities.

• Demonstrate knowledge of a range of resources, including ICT, and apply creativity and initiative in incorporating them into the planning and teaching of the Humanities appropriate to the learning and teaching context to engage students in their learning.

• Demonstrate advanced understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Christian perspectives on Humanities content and pedagogies.

• Critically apply reflexive practice to their own learning process and ongoing development as a teacher including their understanding of the Christian faith in the context of Christian worldview, Scripture and broader vocation.

Unit Description

This unit will provide pre-service teachers with the opportunity to engage with current knowledge and understanding about the structure and substance of the Humanities, students’ developmental levels relevant to this area of learning, and pedagogical approaches for improving their levels of competence in knowledge and process skills specific to the Humanities. Through this unit pre-service teachers will engage with and develop their knowledge of the current curriculum for the Humanities subjects. The unit will also focus on developing and applying the pre-service teachers’ knowledge and understanding about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Christian perspectives on content and pedagogies relevant to the Humanities.

Through this unit pre-service teachers will critically analyse pedagogies for assessing students’ learning needs in Humanities and developing effective learning experiences that will engage and cater for a diverse range of students. The unit will explore a range of resources for engaging and supporting students in their learning in the Humanities.

The unit will also focus on developing the pre-service teachers’ personal competence in utilising ICT for processes specific to the Humanities, in order to enhance students’ learning in this discipline and in ICTs. This unit will also focus on developing the pre-service teachers’ personal proficiencies in content knowledge and process skills in the Humanities, and incorporates Christian faith, worldview and Scripture related to the teaching vocation.

Topics

1. Overview of the Primary Humanities curriculum
2. Principles of an integral approach and the key perspectives of a Topic
3. Key ideas in the Historical dimension and skills of History
4. Key ideas in the Geographical dimension and skills of Geography
5. Key ideas in the ethical and political dimension (civics and civilisation)
6. Pedagogical essentials for working with inquiry and project based learning
7. Key strategies for assessing and reporting the Humanities and analysing data to diagnose needs, levels and standards

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Unit offerings

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.