Primary English Curriculum and Pedagogy
PostgraduateTAS-EMT6112025
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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
Primary English Curriculum and Pedagogy
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Apply your theoretical knowledge of the English discipline to interpret texts and their potential for teaching.
- Apply the skills of textual analysis to (a) children’s writing samples; and (b) children’s literature.
- Transform your knowledge of theory and pedagogies to design critical and creative classroom experiences.
- Teaching Writing
- Unit Overview
- Functional Grammar: Field, Tenor, Mode
- Functional Grammar: Processes, Participants, Circumstances
- Analysing Children's Writing
- The Teaching Learning Cycle
- Teaching Narrative Text Types
- Teaching Information Text Types
- Teaching Persuasive Text Types
- An Introduction to Picture Books: Aesthetics
- Picture Books: Semiotics
- Picture Books: Literary Features
- Picture Books: How Words and Images Work Together
- Picture Books: Play and Learning
- Reflections
Children encounter a wide range of texts in their lives. They are expected to read and interpret these texts, and to create their own. An emphasis of study in this subject will be on notions of socio-cultural contexts and their impact on the ways different text types or genres construct meanings; the manner in which texts vary with respect to field, tenor and mode, the features of written texts, and the teaching of text types and grammar. The subject will also involve the investigation of children’s literature, with a deep study of picture books, the most prevalent literary form found in K-6 classrooms.
- Teaching Writing (40%)
- Literature Analysis and Lesson Sequence (40%)
- Children's Writing 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 currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: weekly online lecture (1 hour), weekly online tutorial (2 hours), independent learning (8 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