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Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: English
UndergraduateCUR-EDS1332025
Previously CUR-EDS121
Explore teaching and learning practices to support and challenge a diverse student cohort. Focus on curriculum planning, teaching strategies, evaluation, resources, and having a positive impact on student learning.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 25 May 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 2 June 2025,
- 1 Dec 2025
- Price from
- $666
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: English
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- examine local, national and global research and evidence-based practices in English in Lower Secondary
- apply teaching strategies that support and enhance students’ literacy and numeracy development in this major teaching area
- evaluate a range of resources, including technologies, and make appropriate selections to inform English Lower Secondary learning and teaching programs
- incorporate knowledge of the needs of students from diverse backgrounds and across the full range of abilities to devise differentiated learning and teaching experiences that support and challenge all students in English in Lower Secondary
- employ discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to plan learning and teaching experiences with demonstrated impact in English in Lower Secondary.
- Lower Secondary English: Curriculum and pedagogy
- English-specific discipline knowledge: including new literacies, young adult literature, teaching through cross-curricula priorities
- Learning and teaching in the Lower Secondary English classroom
- Planning and assessment for Lower Secondary English
This subject was previously known as EDS121 Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: English.
This unit is designed to prepare pre-service Lower Secondary English teachers (Years 7-10). Focus will be on curriculum planning, teaching strategies, evaluation, resources, the demonstration of positive impact on student learning and research relating to Lower Secondary English. Teaching and learning practices to support and challenge a diverse student cohort are explored.
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- Annotated resource list (50%)
- Inquiry lesson sequence (50%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-SEN-DEG-2025 - Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (English Education)
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
CUR-EDS121 (Not currently available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Education (Secondary Education) (English Education)
UndergraduateCUR-SEN-DEG