Available in 2024
Course code

EDUC4245

Units

10 units

Level

4000 level

Course handbook

Description

This course provides an introduction to curriculum, pedagogy and assessment and NESA requirements for teaching Stage 6 Technology Syllabi. It provides students with an opportunity to understand the various discourses on current issues that inform teachers' knowledge and pedagogical practice, as well as critically engaging with models of pedagogy.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Design challenging, engaging, and supportive scope and sequence and units for teaching the Stage 6 Technology curriculum of their first and/or second teaching areas.

2. Utilise appropriate pedagogies, resources, and assessment practices for teaching Stage 6 Technology

3. Understand the assessment requirements of the NSW Higher School Certificate.

4. Understand issues involved in managing and supervising senior technology projects.


Content

This course introduces students to:

Curriculum

  • Stage 6 Technology syllabi
  • Planning Lessons, Programming/Unit of Work/Resources

Pedagogy

  • Contemporary approaches to pedagogy (incl. the NSW Quality Teaching framework).
  • Academic culture, literacy and numeracy issues.
  • Problem Based Learning, Design, Communication, Research, Innovation, Emerging Technologies, Sustainability, Evaluation.
  • Professional Affiliates: TEA, IIATE, NSW Institute of Teachers, TEA. DECA, HEA, HHEA.
  • Teaching Strategies including: Autonomous Learning Model, Case Study, Industry Studies, Oral Presentations, Research, Discourse and Mentoring.

Assessment

  • Scope and Sequence
  • New HSC Assessment Requirements
  • Whole School Assessment
  • Using SMART and Scout Data to analyse HSC results.
  • Using formative and summative data
  • Stage 6 Specific Technology Subject Assessment Requirements
  • HSC assessment and examination
  • Oral and Written reports

Skills

  • Major Project and Folio Management

Requisites

For students who commenced in the program in 2016 onwards, enrolment in this course is dependent on successful completion of the teacher education admission milestone:

- Three HSC band 5s (including one in English) or

- 80 units of UON courses or

- Regulatory authority approved comparable pathways.

If you have successfully completed EDUC3031 you cannot enrol in this course.

Teacher Education Milestone


Assumed knowledge

Students should have completed EDUC1101 and EDUC2145. It is expected that in EDUC1101 they would have enrolled in the Design and Technology tutorial.


Assessment items

Written Assignment: Written Task

Presentation: Presentation

In Term Test: Examination


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Lecture-1
  • Online 8 hour(s) per term
Tutorial-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 8 week(s) starting in week 1
  • Note: Tutorials may be conducted on a weekly basis or grouped in multiple day-long or half-day intensives, possibly on a weekend or during semester break.
Workshop-1
  • Face to Face Off Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 8 week(s) starting in week 1
  • Note: Workshops may be conducted on a weekly basis or grouped in multiple day-long or half-day intensives, possibly on a weekend or during semester break. Workshops will be held off-site at Merewether High School.

Course outline