Unit code: EDU80018
Duration: 1 Teaching Period
Contact hours: Recommended 12 hours of study per week
About this unit
The focus of this unit is on developing the pre-service teacher’s capacity to critically evaluate innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Underpinning this unit is the Design Thinking Methodology where pre-service teachers will implement a creative approach to contemporary innovative practices for teaching and learning using an inquiry model. Pre-service teachers will develop strategies for critical evaluation of a diverse range of approaches towards innovation and current practice. Pre-service teachers will integrate their knowledge to engage in a Problem Based approach to design, as well as creating and critically evaluating innovations in the education arena.
Content
- Innovative approaches to teaching and learning
- Design thinking, creativity and innovation, and discipline areas
- Responding to our world through the curriculum
- Engaging with diverse and divergent thinking
- Collaborative learning and sharing – peers, colleagues, school community
- Multi-literacies, multimodalities
- Inquiry/problem based thinking and learning objectives
- Negotiating learning/teaching spaces in the 21st century
- Redesigning learning – inclusion, diversity, participation and equity
- Different modes of schooling
- Critical theories
- 21st Century skills
- Emerging Technologies
This unit is found in Master of Teaching (Secondary).
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Undergraduate
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Bachelor of Social Science with a Major in:
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Behavioural Studies
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Criminology
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Security and Counter Terrorism
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International Relations
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