Curriculum and Instruction Upper Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences
UndergraduateCUR-EDS3752019
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Unlock unique skills for teaching humanities and social sciences in upper secondary school. Cover curriculum planning, teaching strategies and reporting. Learn how to give the best learning experience for different student needs.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Curriculum and Instruction Upper Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- employ discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to evaluate and refine teaching programs to enhance student learning in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
- analyse assessment data to provide feedback and inform learning and teaching in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
- examine robust practices for the recording and reporting of student achievement in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences to educational stakeholders
- draw on contemporary research-based knowledge, evidence-based practices and understanding of Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum to create learning plans to meet diverse needs of students
- develop assessment strategies to monitor, measure and make consistent and comparable judgements of student learning in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.
- An overview of WACE
- ATAR – Humanities and Social Sciences
- Developing Course Outlines
- School-based assessment in ATAR
- Grading and grade descriptions
- Designing Assessment Tasks
- Recording and Reporting student achievement in ATAR subjects
- Putting it all together: developing programs of work for Yrs 11&12
- Evaluating program to cater for diverse learner needs
- Making consistent and comparable judgements
This subject is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to teach the Upper 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 Upper 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%)
- Formative and Summative Report (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
one of
CUR-EDS131 (Not currently available)
- CUR-EDS144-Curriculum and Instruction Lower Secondary: Humanities and Social Sciences
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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