Postgraduate CUR-MTS513-2023
Curriculum and Instruction Senior Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences
Focus on curriculum planning, teaching strategies, assessment, reporting and impacting positively on students. Learn how to provide feedback, respond to individual student needs and refine your teaching practise to enhance learning.
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Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% Online
Available loans
- HECS-HELP
- FEE-HELP
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:
- establish critical and reflective practice in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences based on local, national and international theory, research and practice
- establish robust practices for the recording, providing feedback and reporting of student achievement in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences to educational stakeholders
- apply high-level discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to plan and develop assessments to enhance learning for a diversity of students in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
- generate assessment strategies and interpret assessment data to evaluate and refine teaching programs to monitor, measure and make consistent and comparable judgements of student learning in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
- apply high-level discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to plan and develop inclusive and engaging teaching programs to enhance enhance learning for a diversity of students in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
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- 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.
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.
- Case Study (50%)
- Portfolio (50%)
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Postgraduate CUR-SEC-MAS-2023