Human Development and Learning
PostgraduateTAS-EMT5042025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Human Development and Learning
About this subject
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Analyse the physical, intellectual development, social, emotional, moral, and spiritual development of students and explain how this may affect learning.
- Synthesise research into how students learn and explain the implications for teaching.
- Manage and communicate specialised knowledge using verbal, written, and digital communication strategies, with use of APA 7th edition referencing conventions where relevant.
- Teachers, Teaching, and Educational Psychology
- Culture, Community, and Spiritual Development
- Physical and Cognitive Development
- Personal, Emotional, Social and Moral Development
- Behavioural Views of Learning
- Cognitive Views of Learning
- Complex Cognitive Processes
- Social Cognitive and Constructivist Views of Learning
- Motivation in Learning and Teaching
- Creating Learning Environments
Effective teaching practice is informed by an understanding of students’ physical, intellectual, social, emotional, moral, and spiritual development and how they learn. In this subject, you will explore the following overarching questions:
- How can teachers create the conditions that promote students’ development and learning?
- What factors influence human flourishing?
You will analyse key theories of development, engage with research into how students learn, and consider the implications for your teaching practice.
- Teaching Strategy Portfolio (35%)
- Micro Teaching Demonstration (45%)
- Reflective Analysis (20%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- TAS-EDC-MAS-2025 - Master of Teaching (Primary)
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or enrol in the following subject(s) to study at the same time or prior to this subject:
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: weekly online lecture (2 hours), weekly online tutorial (2 hours), independent learning (7 hours)
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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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateTAS-EDC-MAS