Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1E-EXT-2018-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1E-INT-2018-ONGOING

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Requisites

Exclusion

Enrolment rules

Enrolment in an initial teacher education course.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Self-evaluate professional capabilities in English and literacy and plan for professional learning in light of the literacy level expected of contemporary teachers

2.

Evaluate the literacy level expected of contemporary students

3.

Analyse language fundamentals, reading and writing processes, and their interconnections

4.

Demonstrate how to foster reading comprehension and assess writing.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

This unit is designed to help you to meet the professional standards required by the Australian Curriculum. All Australian teachers are 'responsible for teaching the subject specific literacy of their learning area' and must have 'a clear understanding of the literacy demands an opportunities of their learning area' (ACARA, 2013). The focus of the unit is on two main ideas: 1. Understanding literacy development – strengthening your ability to be an effective literacy teacher; 2. Understanding language – improving your knowledge about language fundamentals, reading, and writing and making your current implicit knowledge more explicit.