• 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.