Unit details
ECS472 - Humanities, Societies and Environments: Curriculum Study B
| Offered at: | (B, X) |
|---|---|
| Offerings: | Trimester 2 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit chair: | R Quinn |
| Prerequisite: | ELE408 or ECS471 |
| Incompatible with: | ELE409 |
| Contact hours: | One hour lecture and two hours tutorial per week |
Content
This unit is designed to equip students to effectively and competently teach social education studies at the VCE level/post compulsory level. the main VCE studies are History (7 fields), Geography, Economics, Sociology, Philosophy and International Politics. This unit will examine the structure of VCE/post compulsory studies through a focus on the content and approaches outlines in each of the studies. The areas covered include teaching at post compulsory level, teaching strategies, assessment practices and requirements and reegulations of teaching at VCE level. It will also include information on curriculum planning and the uses of various information technologies appropriate for teaching VCE in this field. Students will be expected to design teaching to embed higher order skills of critical thinking, problem solving, evaluation, synthesis and understanding specific discipline based skills and pedagogies. Students are expected to work with assessment tasks, SACs and back mapping to show competencies in assessment.
Assessment
Task 1 50% Teaching and Learning Assignment - students develop a plan to teach at VCE Units 1,2.
Task 2 50% VCE Exam Teaching Report - student back map from an exam to teaching pedagogies.
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