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ECM581 - Teaching the Curriculum: Junior Secondary English

2022

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Education

Unit Description

This postgraduate unit introduces pre-service teachers to the advanced concepts and pedagogies in the field of English teaching in junior secondary. With the in-depth knowledge of the Australian Curriculum: English and contemporary educational theories, pre-service teachers will critically review the strategies to program a secondary English curriculum that facilitates junior secondary students' ability to meet the learning outcomes across all three curriculum strands of Language, Literature and Literacy.

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Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Critically apply discipline knowledge and knowledge of the Australian Curriculum: English and other approved curriculum to design effective teaching and learning plans.
2.	Critically apply knowledge of current research literature to analyse and evaluate approaches to the teaching of English.
3.	Theorise and critically reflect on strategies used to cater for student diversity.
4.	Develop a repertoire of context specific formative and summative assessment practices focused on evidence of student learning to provide targeted feedback.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Essay (3,000 words)	50%	1,2,3,4
2.	Essay (3,000 words)	50%	1,2,3,4

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2022	Semester 1	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR
2022	Semester 1	External	External Studies	OLR

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