Postgraduate CUR-MTS513-2020

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

FEE-HELP
HECS-HELP

Assessments

100% online

Prior study

Not required

Study terms

25 Nov 2019
30 Nov 2020

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Subject details

What you'll learn

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

apply high-level discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to evaluate and refine teaching programs to enhance student learning in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
interpret assessment data to provide feedback and inform teaching and learning in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
establish robust practices for the recording and reporting of student achievement in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences to educational stakeholders
use contemporary research-based knowledge and understanding of Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum to create learning plans to meet diverse needs of students
generate assessment strategies to monitor, measure and make consistent and comparable judgments of student learning in Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.

Topics covered

- 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
Study resources
- Instructional methods
  - Audio/Video conferencing
  - Discussion forum/Discussion Board
  - Embedded Multimedia
  - Online assignment submission
  - Podcasting/Lecture capture
  - Web links
- Online materials
  - Audio-Video streaming
  - Resources and Links

Entry requirements

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

Core

CUR-SEC-MAS-2020

Elective

OUA-PSU-GCE-2020
UNE-PRO-GCE-2020

Special requirements

No special requirements

Description

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.

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