| Semester 3, 2022 External | |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
| School or Department : | School of Education |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
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Overview
This course consolidates your skills and understanding in purposefully and creatively teaching numeracy, literacy and STEM. In recent years there has been global recognition of the importance of numeracy, literacy and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, with research reinforcing the importance of children鈥檚 early experiences to later academic success. You will investigate children鈥檚 development of numeracy, literacy and STEM, through a variety of approaches including play. Contemporary research and a range of inquiry-based strategies will be used in developing your teaching in early childhood contexts.
You will focus on conceptual development, pedagogical approaches and practices for supporting children's learning of numeracy, literacy and STEM concepts. Through numeracy, literacy and STEM children develop academically, engage with imaginative inquiry, solve complex problems. You will explore children's use these concepts in making sense of their world, connecting with their environment and engaging with everyday activities.
Course participants will undertake a 30-day professional experience in this course. For full details of the Professional Experience particulars, please refer to the Professional Experience website and the Professional Experience Book.
Course learning outcomes
On completion of this course students should be able to:
- discuss contemporary theories about numeracy, literacy, and STEM learning;
- demonstrate knowledge and understanding of pedagogies and practices that support children鈥檚 numeracy, literacy and language and STEM development in safe and ethical ways across the full range of children鈥檚 strengths, characteristics and diverse language and learning needs in early learning contexts;
- plan play-based learning experiences encompassing numeracy, literacy and STEM learning that respond to children鈥檚 interests, abilities and needs;
- evaluate resources for their effectiveness in supporting numeracy, literacy and STEM learning and development;
- demonstrate competence in and appropriate use of language and literacy, including spelling, grammar, punctuation and bibliographic referencing;
- demonstrate professionalism during preservice teacher placements through observation, practice and assessment of preservice teacher professional practice.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Contemporary knowledge about how children develop and learn numeracy and the implications for teaching | 20.00 |
| 2. | Contemporary knowledge about how children develop and learn literacy understandings and the implications for teaching | 20.00 |
| 3. | Contemporary knowledge about how children develop and learn STEM understandings and the implications for teaching | 20.00 |
| 4. | Pedagogies and practices that support children鈥檚 numeracy, literacy and language and STEM development | 20.00 |
| 5. | Resources for supporting numeracy, literacy and STEM learning | 10.00 |
| 6. | Play-based learning experiences encompassing numeracy, literacy and/or STEM | 10.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critique (written) | No | 50 | 1,2,4,5 |
| Creative work | No | 50 | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Placement Performance | No | 1,2,3,4,5,6 |