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Curriculum and Instruction Senior Secondary: Science
Postgraduate | CUR-MTS515 | 2020
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Get prepared to teach upper secondary science. Learn to plan curriculums, assess and develop teaching strategies. Develop strong instructive skills reporting to educational stakeholders. Create individual learning plans to meet diverse student needs.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Curriculum and Instruction Senior Secondary: Science
About this subject
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 Science
- interpret assessment data to provide feedback and inform teaching and learning in Senior Secondary Science
- establish robust practices for the recording and reporting of student achievement in Senior Secondary Science to educational stakeholders
- use contemporary research-based knowledge and understanding of Senior Secondary Science curriculum to create learning plans to meet diverse needs of students
- generate assessment strategies to monitor, measure and make consistent and comparable judgements of student learning in Senior Secondary Science.
- Developing teacher identity
- The nature and importance of Science: Science as Inquiry
- Unpacking the Senior School Science curriculum and SCSA
- Planning individual lessons
- Planning a short sequence of lessons
- Planning and conducting practical lessons
- Assessments in Senior Secondary Science
- Designing assessment items in Senior Secondary Science
- Marking, mapping and moderating assessment and reporting student achievement
- Creating a positive learning environment
This subject was previously known as Curriculum and Instruction Upper Secondary: Science
This subject is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to teach the Senior Secondary Science 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 Science. The subject examines moderation, the provision of feedback and responding to individual student needs.
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- Report (50%)
- Portfolio (50%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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