EDUC6735
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
This course examines concepts and theories from educational, social, and developmental psychology as they pertain to teaching and learning. The course provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to develop an understanding of how students learn and how teachers can help students to learn. The course also examines learning in a social context, demonstrating how the complex social nature of schools, as well as the complex social nature of the surrounding community, impact on students development (physical, cognitive, social, and emotional) and academic achievement.
Availability
Not currently offered.
This Course was last offered in Semester 1 - 2021.
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Identify typical developmental trends (physical, cognitive, social, emotional, moral) in students as they move through primary and secondary school;
2. Identify individual developmental variations among students;
3. Apply current theories of learning and ways in which teachers can assist students to learn;
4. Encourage students to self-regulate their learning;
5. Apply current thinking about the nature of intelligence and the extent to which intelligence can be changed;
6. Demonstrate how students' skills, interests, motivation, and prior knowledge impact on their learning;
7. Identify how students can vary in the way they approach learning;
8. Understand the social nature of schooling and the ways in which socio-economic status can affect students experiences of schooling.
Content
- Physical development, cognitive development, social development, emotional development, moral development
- Information Processing Model of cognitive development; self-regulation of learning
- Nature of intelligence; malleability of intelligence
- Students’ motivation; teachers’ motivation; ways teachers can structure their teaching to increase students’ motivation to learn
- Effects of socio-economic status on students’ experience of schooling
Requisite
If you have successfully completed EDUC6168 you cannot enrol in this course.
Assumed knowledge
N/A
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Essays/Written Assignments
In Term Test: Examination: Class
Presentation: Presentations: Group
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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