Undergraduate CUR-EDS144-2023
Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences
Previously CUR-EDS131
Study curriculum planning, teaching strategies, evaluation, resources, and how to have a positive impact on student learning. Teaching and learning practices to support and challenge a diverse student cohort are also explored.
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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
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Assessments
100% online
Prior study
Not required
Start dates
- 29 May 2023
- 27 Nov 2023
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Subject details
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- examine local, national and global research and evidence-based practices in Humanities and Social Sciences 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 Humanities and Social Sciences 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 Humanities and Social Sciences in Lower Secondary
- employ discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to plan learning and teaching experiences with demonstrated impact in Humanities and Social Sciences in Lower Secondary.
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- Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) in the Australian Curriculum
- Teaching through Critical Inquiry
- Planning for HASS : lesson design
- Planning for HASS: strategies and resourcing
- Assessment strategies for HASS
- How to integrate the HASS learning areas: history & historical inquiry
- How to integrate the HASS learning areas: geography & geographical thinking
- Developing language, literacy and numeracy in HASS
- ICT and HASS
- Cross-curricular priorities and HASS
- Developing values and ethical understanding for active and informed citizenship
- Developing values and ethical understanding for active and informed citizenship: planning
- Review and Reflection
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-EDS131-Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: HASSedc (No longer available)
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
This subject was previously known as EDS131 Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences.
This subject is designed to prepare pre-service Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences teachers. The focus of the subject is on curriculum planning, teaching strategies, evaluation, resources, the demonstration of positive impact on student learning and research relating to Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences. Teaching and learning practices to support and challenge a diverse student cohort are explored.
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- Essay (50%)
- Report (50%)
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