Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences

• • 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

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

Elective

• OUA-PSU-GCE-2021
• CUR-SEC-MAS-2021
• CUR-SEC-MAS-2021
• UNE-PRO-GCE-2021

Special requirements

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

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.

• Essay (50%)
• Report (50%)