• Semester 2 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit seeks to provide learning opportunities which will require student
teachers to interact with content related to the instructional and management
roles of teachers in classrooms.  The substantive base of these learning
opportunities will be drawn from classroom management, models of teaching, the
generic skills of teaching relevant to such models, studies of classrooms as
task environments from an information processing perspective, and teacher
thinking.  In the design of learning opportunities, there will be a strong
emphasis on a constructivist role for student teachers and on the importance of
such high level processes as conceptualising, theory building, inquiry,
evaluation and reflection.  Field Studies will be a component of this unit.