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Primary Mathematics 1: Numeracy

There will be times throughout your teaching career that you will need to adjust your teaching strategies to encompass the needs of students in your classes who have learning difficulties or disabilities. In this subject you will develop the responsive teaching skills to address the impact of learning difficulties and disabilities on engagement and learning in the classroom. You will learn how to confidently and effectively teach and intervene for children with learning difficulties or disabilities. This subject includes 20 days of professional experience.

Educational Intervention for Students with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities: PrEx 20 days

Literacy underpins all learning for children. As a future teacher, it is important that you have a depth of understanding about the wide variability of literacy achievement and the factors that affect literacy achievement in the classroom. In this subject you will examine assessment techniques for determining learning needs in literacy by studying theory and practical learning activities. Teaching and intervention activities that accelerate literacy learning will also be explored. You will be drawing on your knowledge of evidence-based literacy techniques to plan, implement and evaluate intervention strategies for literacy learning. This subject requires you to have contact with children so you can complete the assessment tasks. Requirements for student teachers who have contact with children are the completion of online anaphylaxis training, the completion of an online child protection module and a valid Working With Children Check (WWC).

Intervention for Literacy Difficulties in the Classroom

Start your teaching career with an understanding of the strengths and challenges of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). As a professional, you will be in a position to enhance your students’ learning and support them and their families as they navigate the education system. In this subject you will engage in critical discussion about the theoretical explanations for ASD. You will focus on the development and learning of students with ASD, and study the evidence based teaching practices and interventions used for learners with ASD. You will investigate the collaborative practices that best support students diagnosed with ASD in special and inclusive settings, and in everyday living.

Autism: Evidence Based Intervention

As a teacher, you need to deliberately plan for teaching behaviours that support learning in your classroom.  This subject explores processes for providing multi-tiered systems of support for behaviour and gives you some insight into evidence-based strategies for students with disabilities, learning difficulties or giftedness in your classroom. There are times when more intense intervention is needed to reduce the significant challenging behaviours. This course will help you recognise, assess and respond to the needs of every student.  Learn how to articulate clear and appropriate learning goals for your classes and design positive behaviour plans for groups of students.  Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Special Education (Primary)/Bachelor of Disabilities Studies will complete 20 days of professional experience in a special school, special education unit or an inclusive school environment.

Positive Behavioural Support (Special and Inclusive Education)

Teaching students with learning difficulties and disabilities requires additional professional skills. When you study this subject you will learn about the defining features of learning difficulties. This subject explores a range of physical impairments, neurological and/or psychological disorders, and developmental conditions that may be present in your students. You will be introduced to the common types, characteristics, names and terminology used in educational settings when managing students with one or more of these conditions. You will complete reflective exercises which will broaden your understanding of how children with special needs can be included in mainstream classes and investigate the resources which will empower you to be inclusive.

Learning Difficulties and Disabilities: An Introduction

Studying this subject will equip you with the knowledge and skills to confidently and creatively design science and technology lessons and programs.   You will learn to integrate the NSW K-6 science and technology syllabus with other learning areas, including literacy, to provide an integrated learning experience for students. You will also develop your understanding of the scope and sequence of the K-6 science and technology syllabus.  You will explore a range of pedagogies that apply to science and technology teaching, as well as teaching resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.  Putting your skills into practice, you will design and trial hands-on science experiences and technology briefs for children.  You will also deepen your understanding of assessment strategies that improve science and technology teaching and learning.

Teaching Primary Science and Technology

Childhood development occurs on a continuum, with rapid physical, social, emotional and cognitive change occurring in primary school-aged children. In this subject, you will explore the fundamentals of curriculum theory and teaching in the Health and Physical Education (HPE) component of the primary school curriculum. Engaging in a variety of learning experiences, you will examine the theoretical and practical aspects of this key learning area, with different approaches to learning and recognition of the needs of students of differing abilities. This subject provides you with opportunities to explore current research-based knowledge for teaching movement skills and demonstrate your knowledge of teaching and assessment strategies, class management and organisation skills for safe HPE teaching. You will also critique, design and implement lesson sequences that integrate diverse approaches to K-6 HPE teaching and learning.

Health and Physical Education in the Primary School

The foundation for development of strong mathematical knowledge and core skills in mathematics is laid down in primary education. Current Australian education strategies focus on quality teaching, informed by the best available evidence, to help students develop their number sense from the early years of schooling. This subject equips you with essential content knowledge and skills across the curriculum strands of Data, Chance, Patterns and Algebra and later Number. This subject prepares you for primary mathematics teaching, allowing you to demonstrate your understanding of the critical importance of numeracy to learning. You will also learn and refine teaching strategies to create developmental learning sequences relevant to the curriculum strands.

Primary Mathematics 2B: Statistics, Algebra and Number

There is continued focus in Australian education on children’s development of core skills in mathematics throughout their school years. The foundations for strong mathematical knowledge are laid down in primary education. This subject equips you with content knowledge and skills within the curriculum strands of Measurement and Geometry, and Number. By examining developmental teaching theories and the psychology of learning mathematics, you will learn how to foster flexible, critical and creative thinking in your students. You will also explore learning sequence design and lesson planning that promotes student-centred teaching and learning, examine investigative activities and tools to promote problem-solving and mathematics communication, apply strategies for assessment task development and learn to effectively integrate contemporary ICT tools and strategies into your classroom.

Primary Mathematics 2A: Space, Measurement and Number

Underpinning a child’s academic performance is their emotional wellbeing. As a teacher, you need a solid understanding of the key concepts in educational psychology that explain the importance of personal development (e.g. intellectual, social, moral and physical) when it comes to students being successful at school and able to function well in society.  This subject will examine educational psychology theories such as the importance of ‘optimization’ and ‘flourishing’ in learning and the value of holistic psychology when it comes to motivating students in the classroom. The subject will encourage you to appreciate contemporary theories in educational psychology and importantly, to teach you about effective assessment, measurement, and evaluation procedures of student learning.

Learning, Assessment and Evaluation

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