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Teaching Language and Literature in the Primary Years

Postgraduate | CUR-MTP507 | 2018

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Explore ways to bring language and literature to life for primary school students. Enhance learning by understanding historical and current thinking about ways to teach, and get the skills to judge and measure student engagement and reception.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks

HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available

Teaching Language and Literature in the Primary Years

About this subject

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

    1. evaluate a range of language and literature theories and pedagogies and explain how they can be applied to different learning contexts
    2. justify the selection of language and literature pedagogies for a particular context
    3. apply discipline knowledge, principles and concepts to create, evaluate and refine teaching programs to enhance student learning in the Primary English curriculum
    4. generate assessment strategies to monitor, measure, provide feedback and make consistent and comparable judgements of student learning in Primary Language and Literature.

Entry requirements

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.

Additional requirements

  • Other requirements -

    Access to Microsoft Office or a unit approved alternative, access to video creation and editing software.

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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