GDE3003 Planning and Teaching (FOEDU)

Semester 1 (ONC)Toowoomba (WEB)Toowoomba

Semester 2 (ONC)Fraser Cst (WEB)Toowoomba

Units 1.0 (Teacher Education not elsewher) Band 5

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Synopsis

This course views teaching as intellectual work and enables students to build their own repertoires of teaching practice drawn from a framework for effective teaching, such as Productive Pedagogies (in the Queensland context) or other appropriate frameworks.. Students will reflect on their in-school experiences in the light of the relevant literature in the areas of curriculum development, planning and effective teaching strategies. Students will be engaged in systematic reflection as a key to the improvement of practice. Students will explore a range of planning styles, ranging from single lessons to integrated units, with provisions made for diversity among learners. The course aims to provide opportunities for students to develop their general teaching skills and pedagogical content knowledge, which is seen as an integration of content, learning and teaching. The course provides for a nominal 10 days of professional attachment to an identified school. During this period of attachment students will be immersed in the day-to-day operations of the school and in the work of a teacher, with a particular focus on the connections between that work and the issues covered in this course.