This is a foundational subject for the Master of Teaching program. It introduces the philosophical and theoretical framework for this program and provides an overview of the international and national education context with a specific focus on Australian education policy and curriculum. This subject introduces key educational philosophers and theorists and explores their influence on education with a particular focus on Christian education. It introduces the evidence-based theoretical foundation for students to effectively plan engaging learning sequences and to manage a supportive learning environment.
This subject introduces initial teacher education (ITE) students to the core components of effective teaching and learning. It explores how cognitive evidence-based theory informs teaching decisions, instructional design and assessment in relation to the classroom and the broader school context. Students will examine cognitive evidence-based theory and consider how this can be applied in various learning contexts with different groups of learners. They will also explore student diversity, differentiation and how to design lesson plans that integrate evidence-based theory and that demonstrate good planning to engage a broad range of learners.
This subject explores how the English language is used in personal, community, academic and professional contexts while providing insight into language use in a multicultural and plurilingual society. Students will develop an understanding of the principles and theories of language and literacy development, and a social view of language and varieties of spoken and written English. They will also examine how spoken and written language combine with other ways to make meaning through multimodal texts. Students will apply their understanding of informal, formal, diagnostic, formative and summative assessment strategies to their own language and literacy skills and needs. They will also apply this social view of language when working with a range of texts.
The foundations for strong mathematical knowledge are laid in primary education. This unit and its related content are organised in number and algebra, measurement and space, and statistics and probability. The important role of working mathematically plays across all areas of mathematics and reflects the strengthened connections between the concepts. Students examine developmental teaching theories and the psychology of learning mathematics, and how to use these to foster flexible, critical and creative thinking. They will also explore learning sequence design and lesson planning that promotes student-centred teaching and learning, examine investigative activities and tools to promote problem-solving and mathematics communication, apply strategies for assessment task development and learn to effectively integrate contemporary ICT tools and strategies into their teaching. Students will also explore a values-based approach to teaching mathematics from a Christian worldview.
This is a foundational subject for the Master of Teaching program. It introduces the philosophical and theoretical framework for this program and provides an overview of the international and national education context with a specific focus on Australian education policy and curriculum. This subject introduces key educational philosophers and theorists and explores their influence on education with a particular focus on Christian education. It introduces the evidence-based theoretical foundation for students to effectively plan engaging learning sequences and to manage a supportive learning environment.
This subject introduces initial teacher education (ITE) students to the core components of effective teaching and learning. It explores how cognitive evidence-based theory informs teaching decisions, instructional design and assessment in relation to the classroom and the broader school context. Students will examine cognitive evidence-based theory and consider how this can be applied in various learning contexts with different groups of learners. They will also explore student diversity, differentiation and how to design lesson plans that integrate evidence-based theory and that demonstrate good planning to engage a broad range of learners.
This subject introduces human development with a specific focus on the period from early childhood through to adolescence and early adulthood where students study the historical and contemporary theory of cognitive, psychosocial, physical, and spiritual development. These are considered through a Christian Worldview lens. Students analyse factors that influence child and adolescent development and the implications for educational practice with a specific focus on teaching and learning. They also consider what it means for humans to flourish and some of the primary challenges that children and adolescents face in relation to wellbeing together with what teachers and schools can do to support them.
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