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Postgraduate CUR-MTS508-2019

Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences

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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$2,241 $2,491

Your upfront cost: $0

International student?

Duration

13 weeks

Study method

100% online

Available loans

  • FEE-HELP
  • HECS-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

  • 25 Nov 2019
  • 30 Nov 2020
Curtin University

Start your career with Curtin’s globally recognised courses and extensive industry connections. Through OUA, our online courses offer an interactive and collaborative learning experience that gets you the same degree as if you studied on campus. Curtin is a global university with a vibrant culture of innovation and collaboration and is ranked in the top one per cent of universities worldwide.

QS RANKING 2020

13

Times Higher Education Ranking 2020

16

  • 2019
  • 2020

Subject details

What you'll learn

At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

  1. establish critical and reflective practice in Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences based on local, national and international research
  2. evaluate teaching strategies that support and enhance students’ literacy and numeracy development
  3. appraise a range of resources, including technologies, and make appropriate selections to inform Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences teaching programs
  4. integrate knowledge of the needs of students from diverse backgrounds and across the full range of abilities to develop differentiated teaching and learning experiences that support and challenge all students in Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
  5. apply high-level discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to plan, deliver and evaluate teaching and learning experiences with demonstrated impact in Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.
Topics covered
    • 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 in HASS: formative and summative
    • 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 vales and ethical understanding for active and informed citizenship
    • Developing values and ethical understanding for active and informed citizenship: planning
    • Review and Reflection
  • Study resources

    • Instructional methods

      • Audio/Video conferencing
      • Discussion forum/Discussion Board
      • E-Portfolios
      • Embedded Multimedia
      • Online assignment submission
      • Podcasting/Lecture capture
      • Standard Media
      • Streaming Multimedia
      • Web links
    • Online materials

      • Resources and Links
      • Online Assessment
      • FAQs
      • Audio-Video streaming
Entry requirements

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core
  • CUR-SEC-MAS-2019
Elective
  • OUA-PSU-GCE-2019
  • CUR-SEC-MAS-2019
  • UNE-PRO-GCE-2019

Special requirements

  • OtherDetails -

    Access to Microsoft Office or a unit approved alternative; access to video creation and editing software.

Description

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.

Please Note: If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.

Find out more about the Academic Integrity module.

Assessments

  • Essay (50%)
  • Report (50%)
Textbooks


Click on the titles of the listed books below to find out more:

Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences: History, Geography, Economics and Citizenship in the Australian Curriculum, 6th ed.

Hoepper, Brian

Required

Textbook information is pending.

Related degrees

postgraduate CUR-SEC-MAS-2019

Master of Teaching Secondary Education

postgraduate OUA-PSU-GCE-2019

Postgraduate Single Subjects

postgraduate UNE-PRO-GCE-2019

Graduate Certificate in Professional Practice

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