Curriculum and Instruction Senior Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences

• • An overview of National and Local Year 11 and 12 HASS curriculum
  • Humanities and Social Sciences in Year 11 and 12
  • Planning: Developing Course Outlines
  • School-based assessment in HASS in Year 11 and 12
  • Grading and grade descriptions
  • Assessment: Types and design; Rubric and marking key design
  • Recording and Reporting student achievement in Year 11 and 12 HASS
  • Putting it all together: developing programs of work for Years 11 and 12
  • Evaluating programs to cater for diverse learner needs
  • Making consistent and comparable judgments

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

Elective

• CUR-SEC-MAS-2023
• CUR-SEC-MAS-2023

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

This subject was previously known as Curriculum and Instruction Upper Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences.

This subject is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to teach the Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum. The focus of the subject is on curriculum planning, teaching strategies, assessment, reporting, the demonstration of positive impact on student learning and research relating to Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences. The subject examines moderation, the provision of feedback and responding to individual student needs.

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• Case Study (50%)
• Portfolio (50%)

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