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Foundation Principles of Middle Schooling
Postgraduate | GRF-EDN701 | 2019
Course information for 2019 intake
Explore the pedagogical, curricula, evaluative and theoretical possibilities for learners in their middle years. Develop approaches to pedagogy, curriculum and assessment for the effective teaching of young millennials that are natives of the digital world.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- -
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Foundation Principles of Middle Schooling
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate an appreciation of the issues associated with young people with regards to their bodies, health, physicality, personal development, creativity, expression, literacy and numeracy
- demonstrate an understanding of the principals and practices of pedagogy, curriculum and assessment in the middle years schooling
- develop teaching and learning strategies and practices relevant to young people in the middle years schooling.
- demonstrate an awareness of diversity in learners within the same social space and develop practices that identify and engage with this diversity for collective outcomes
- articulate the socio-political dimensions of traditional mass schooling, in particular related to upper primary and lower secondary schools, and contrast these to those of middle schooling
- identify a personal middle schooling philosophy.
- The middle years: what's it all about?
- The middle years learner
- The middle years learner's brain
- Social competence: identity and independence
- Differentiated learners
- Pedagogical practices in the middle years
- Curriculum practices in the middle years
- Assessment practices in the middle years
- Collaborative learning
- Collaborative teaching
- Relationships in the middle years
- A personal philosophy
This subject introduces the pedagogical, curricula, evaluative and theoretical possibilities for schooling in the middle years. It endeavours to place the complexity of learning, learners and the social space of the classroom within the dominant schooling framework of primary and secondary schooling as well as the philosophical, political and practical implications for middle schooling. A focus on developing appropriate approaches to pedagogy, curriculum and assessment for effective teaching and learning of these 'millennial' young people will be used together with understandings of 'new times' as the basis for this thinking.
- Personal Philosophy (25%)
- Resource Development (50%)
- Reflective Journal (25%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Equivalent subjects
You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:
GRF-EDN101 (Not currently available)
GRF-EDMY101 (Not currently available)
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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