Master of Teaching (Secondary)

Understanding Behaviour for Classroom Practice

EDU60016

Unit code: EDU60016
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit prepares pre-service teachers to understand how children and young people display different behaviours within a learning environment and how to approach and negotiate these behaviours. They are introduced to the major perspectives of understanding and supporting behaviour and explore historical and contemporary theories and how these relate to principles, policies and practices. They explore the role and practice of external agencies and professionals in supporting children, young people, teachers and families. Pre-service teachers will be challenged to reflect upon their own belief system and how this relates to different contemporary approaches and models of behaviour management.

Content

• Factors that influence behaviour in the learning environment
• Theories of learning and development and their relationship to behaviour
• Principles, policies and practices for establishing a productive learning environment
• Frameworks and models for understanding and responding to a range of challenging behaviours with children to adolescents
• Positive behaviour support principles and practice
• The climate of the learning environment
• Restorative practice (an introduction)
• Behaviour management techniques
• Behaviour intervention versus preventative behaviour techniques
• External organisations and agencies working with children to adolescents and their families
• Consideration of rights and ethics

This unit is found in:

• Master of Teaching (Primary)
• Master of Teaching (Secondary)

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Understanding Theories of Teaching, Learning and Development

EDU60017

Unit code: EDU60017
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit aims to introduce students to theories of learning and development. They are introduced to the major theories of learning and explore how these relate to teaching processes. Students will be challenged to reflect upon their own belief system and how this relates to different contemporary theories and contexts of learning and its potential impact on teaching. In addition, students will explore how developmental factors impact learning.

Content

After successfully completing this unit, students will be able to:

• Critically analyse key learning theories and relate them to values, beliefs and contexts.
• Critically reflect upon personal beliefs about learning and teaching and relate these to contemporary theories and practice.
• Apply their understanding of learning theories to analyse pedagogy and classroom practice.
• Demonstrate and communicate knowledge and understanding of the intellectual, physical, language, emotional, moral, social and psychological development of children and young people in contemporary society and how these may affect learning.

This unit is found in:

• Master of Teaching (Primary)
• Master of Teaching (Secondary)

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Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy 1

EDU60050

Unit code: EDU60050 
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit aims to prepare pre-service teachers to plan and teach in their discipline drawing on key curriculum documents. In this unit, students gain knowledge of the principles and practices of teaching and learning. Working with key curriculum documents, pre-service teachers will evaluate contemporary approaches to secondary teaching contexts. They will explore a range of formative and summative assessment practices and strategies for observing, monitoring and planning for teaching and learning -service teachers will also explore feedback principles and reporting in the discipline contexts.

Content

• Contemporary secondary teaching contexts related to Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) and Technological
• Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK).
• Discipline-specific structure, content, concepts and skill development in the [METHOD]
• Principles of effective teaching for understanding [METHOD]
• Application of [METHOD] related pedagogical approaches
• Unit planning: template types and unit evaluation
• Assessment strategies and discipline-specific feedback that can support and enhance students’ learning outcome in [METHOD]
• Digital literacies and use of ICT in [METHOD]
• Differentiation in [METHOD] at the junior and senior secondary school levels

This unit is found in Master of Teaching (Secondary).

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Transformative Technologies in Education

EDU70013

Unit code: EDU70013 
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit focuses on the role that current and emerging technologies play within education contexts. Pre-service teachers will research the changing nature of transformative technologies and be able to critically reflect upon the social, ethical and professional expectations that the rise of technology brings to the classroom and to the nature of learning.

Pre-service teachers will investigate contemporary educational practices, and develop their own views and visions about curriculum and education appropriate for the digital age. In this unit pre-service teachers will reflect on, analyse and develop multimodal online educational resources and consider their use within a school curriculum and within broader society.

Content

• Global and local demands on knowledge, skills, values and beliefs in emerging educational context
• The globalised learning environment
• The role of the teacher in an era of rapid change
• Current and emerging learning technologies
• Analysis of criteria for selecting and determining quality in multimedia educational resources
• Multi-literacies, social futures and communities of practice
• Shaping and making effective teaching resources

This unit is found in Master of Teaching (Secondary).

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Literacy and Numeracy Across the Curriculum

EDU70014

Unit code: EDU70014 
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit provides pre-service teachers with a diversity of skills and a depth of knowledge related to literacy and numeracy within the context of Australian schools and curriculum. By engaging in student-directed inquiry into their chosen subject areas, pre-service teachers will analyse and synthesise understanding of the literacy and numeracy demands and conventions of these areas, and plan for literacy and numeracy development within their subject teaching. This learning will be further critically analysed through group responses to scenarios, reinforcing the position that all teachers are teachers of literacy and numeracy, regardless of their teaching specialisation and context.

Content

• What is literacy? What does it mean to be literate?
• What is numeracy? What does it mean to be numerate?
• Multi-literacies
• New media and literacy
• Subject area literacy and numeracy
• Literacy across curriculum priority
• Numeracy across the curriculum
• Mathematical literacy
• Numeracy concepts and skills
• Numeracy strategies and activities
• Effective teaching of literacy and numeracy
• Effective assessment of literacy and numeracy
• Students with additional needs in literacy and numeracy

This unit is found in Master of Teaching (Secondary).

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Understanding Indigenous Education & Perspectives

EDU80012

Unit code: EDU80012
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit focuses on contemporary and historical Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, identity, languages, histories, status, challenges, contributions and perspectives. The unit aims to enable pre-service teachers to synthesise perspectives about Indigenous education and how these can enhance Western education practices. An additional aim is to plan and develop authentic curriculum and pedagogy for teaching Indigenous children and young people, and analyse how Indigenous teaching and learning practices can benefit all children and young people. This knowledge and understanding will improve graduates’ own cultural awareness and knowledge, and contributes to graduates’ cultural competence and promotes culturally inclusive teaching practices based on sensitive and informed relationships.

Content

• History and culture of Australia’s first nation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• The positioning of Indigenous and traditional education systems within the nation state
• The impact of colonisation and issues related to the retaining and maintaining Indigenous and traditional knowledge through education
• The role of international organisations in protecting, preserving and maintaining Indigenous and traditional education systems
• Current and past contributions of Indigenous people
• Contemporary contexts for Indigenous people
• Reconciliation and its implications for teachers
• Anti-bias curriculum
• Contemporary research into cross-curriculum dimension of Indigenous perspectives
• Integrating authentic Indigenous studies in the curriculum
• Indigenous perspectives and pedagogy in and Implications for teaching not only Indigenous children but all children
• Roles of teachers in supporting reconciliation in a post-apology Australia

This unit is found in:

• Master of Teaching (Primary)
• Master of Teaching (Secondary)

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Assessment and Data

EDU80013

Unit code: EDU80013
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

In this unit students will consider the principles and theory of effective assessment for student learning and examine contexts in which assessments take place. They will examine a range of assessment practices and strategies and how they relate to teaching and learning in a variety of contexts and the use of data to inform planning. Students will examine key issues confronting education and education policy makers, exploring a range of influences on contemporary education policy such as the role of data, and the place of National and global organisations in the policy making process. Students will also explore feedback principles, recording and reporting practices.

Content

This unit is found in:

• Master of Teaching (Primary)
• Master of Teaching (Secondary)

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Teaching for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

EDU80014

Unit code: EDU80014
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week

About this unit

This unit critically examines how education systems both reproduce and challenge social inequalities. The unit highlights a teacher’s professional responsibility to provide children and young people with an equitable education in line with political and legislative priorities. Pre-service teachers will critically reflect on their educational experiences and assumptions to more effectively engage all students. Preservice teachers will explore the diverse needs, strengths, interests, and backgrounds of students, especially in relation to social class, disability, culture, ethnicity, language, religion, gender, and sexuality. Pre-service teachers will formulate critically-informed and socially just
teaching strategies that value the diversity of students.

Content

• Key sociological tools for examining the explicit and implicit work of educators and education systems
• The ethics, theory, and practice of inclusion
• The philosophy, purpose and political nature of education
• Equity vs equality in education
• The representation and language of diversity, equity and inclusion in education
• The persistent myth of meritocracy, colourblindness, and deficit discourses in relation to educational access, participation, and achievement
• The role of schools in debating, reinforcing, and challenging classism, racism, sexism, and ableism
• The perspectives and experiences of marginalised students
• Characteristics of common additional needs
• Strategies for implementing reasonable adjustments for students with disabilities
• Strength-based and valuing approaches for diversity, equity and inclusion
• Learning environments that promote diversity, equity and inclusion
• The importance of collaborating with families and other professionals to access support, resources, and additional services
• Codes of ethics and conduct, relevant legislative, administrative and organisational policies and processes

This unit is found in:

• Master of Teaching (Primary)
• Master of Teaching (Secondary)

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Professional Experience 1

EDU70017

Unit code: EDU70017
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of theory study per week plus 20 days of placement

About this unit

This is the first of three professional experience units in secondary education. Pre-service teachers will undertake a 20-day professional experience in a secondary school under the supervision of approved mentors. Pre-service teachers will involve themselves in the life of the school and reflect on their practice and performance in discussion with their mentors and university academic staff. Pre-service teachers will begin to develop their understanding and competence against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) appropriate to this course stage. Pre-service teachers will be introduced to materials relating to pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and policies relevant to secondary school settings.

Content

• Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate)
• Code of Conduct
• Code of Ethics
• Confidentiality
• Effective communication
• Planning documents
• Introduction to secondary school education in Australia
• The importance of knowing the setting and students you teach
• Curriculum documents relevant to secondary schools
• Engagement in a professional experience under the guidance of a professionally qualified mentor
• Establishing professional relationships
• Reflect on teaching performance
• Resources to support teaching and learning
• Learning environments
• Introduction to e-Portfolios

This unit is found in Master of Teaching (Secondary).

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Professional Experience 2

EDU80051

Unit code: EDU80051
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of theory study per week plus 20 days of placement

About this unit

In this unit, pre-service teachers will undertake a 20-day professional experience in a secondary school setting under the supervision of approved mentors. Pre-service teachers will involve themselves in the life of the school and reflect on their practice and performance supported by their in school mentors and university academic staff. Within this unit pre-service teachers will continue to develop their understanding and competence against the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) appropriate to this course stage. In preparation for this professional experience, pre-service teachers will engage with material relating to pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and policies relevant to a secondary school setting.

Placement

Type: Primary School or Middle-Upper Primary School
Year Level: 5–12 years of age / Foundation to Year 6
Duration: 20 days
Minimum Attendance: 35 hours per week or 7 hours per day

Content

• Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate)
• Engagement in a professional experience under the guidance of a professionally qualified mentor teacher
• Curriculum documentation
• Introduction to assessment practices and their relationship to effective learning
• Lesson and unit planning
• Establishing and maintaining professional relationships with students and other professionals
• Using reflection as a tool for improvement
• Setting goals for teaching and learning
• Modify the learning environment to enhance safety and learning
• Teaching resources including ICT
• Effective communication
• A range of teaching strategies that support students’ learning
• Strategies for supporting students’ learning, well-being and safety, including policy and legislative requirements
• Code of Conduct
• Code of Ethics
• Building on e-Portfolios

This unit is found in Master of Teaching (Secondary).

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Professional Experience 3 (Ready to Teach)

EDU80021

Unit code: EDU80021
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of theory study per week plus 20 days of placement

About this unit

In this unit, pre-service teachers will undertake a 20 day professional experience in a secondary school setting under the supervision of approved mentors. Pre-service teachers will involve themselves in the life of the school and reflect on their practice and performance, supported by their in school mentor and university academic staff. Within this unit, pre-service teachers must demonstrate that they are ready to teach within a secondary school. Pre-service teachers will be required to demonstrate competence against all elements of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers: Graduate stage. This is a requirement of graduation.

Placement

Type: Primary School or Middle-Upper Primary School
Year Level: 5–12 years of age / Foundation to Year 6
Duration: 20 days
Minimum Attendance: 35 hours per week or 7 hours per day

Content