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.
• 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).
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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