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Offerings

MURDOCH-AU7-EXT-2020-ONGOING
MURDOCH-AU7-INT-2020-ONGOING
MURDOCH-ST1-EXT-2018-2021
MURDOCH-ST1-INT-2018-2021

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Learning outcomes

1.

Provide a rationale for the provision of quality Year 11-12 Humanities and Social Sciences programs in schools.

2.

Demonstrate and apply knowledge of Year 11-12 secondary school students and how they learn through Humanities and Social Sciences -specific lesson planning, resource design and enactment of teaching.

3.

Demonstrate and apply knowledge of Year 11-12 Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum content described by the Western Australian School and Curriculum Standards Authority (WASCSA) and how to teach it in sequenced lesson planning, resource design and enactment of teaching.

4.
Create lesson plans and activities using a variety of differentiated reproductive and productive teaching strategies and resources that cater for student diversity.
5.
Proactively create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge’s, literacy and numeracy strategies and the use of ICT through context-specific lesson planning, resource design and enactment of teaching.
6.

Demonstrate a range of assessment strategies, ways of providing appropriate feedback, interpreting student data and reporting to students, parents and other stakeholders in the Year 11-12 Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum context in assignment tasks, lesson planning and enactment of teaching.

7.
Demonstrate knowledge of assessment strategies, a comprehensive feedback repertoire and school-based reporting of student learning in assignment tasks, lesson planning and enactment of teaching.
8.

Engage in professional learning, critiquing a range of resources available for ongoing professional learning in the Year 11-12 Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum context through unit and practicum experiences.

9.

Engage professionally with colleagues, teachers, parents/carers and the community that can assist in planning and implementing effective teaching and learning in the Year 11-12 Humanities and Social Sciences context through unit and practicum experiences.

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Additional information

Unit content:

This unit explores the SCSA Year 11-12 Humanities and Social Sciences course rationale, structures, content, scope and sequence, requirements and resources. Students will evaluate and engage with a range of reproductive and productive pedagogy in a differentiated framework. Comprehensive lesson planning will evidence scaffolded programming, assessment for - and of learning, ICT and cross-curriculum initiatives.
Students will explore learning experiences to develop psychologically needs supportive classrooms with a focus on metacognition, feedback, proactive behaviour management and routines. Stakeholder and professional agencies that support sustained quality teaching will be identified. The focus of this unit is summarised in five Modules with each of the 8 topics allocated.
Module I: The WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority Humanities and Social Sciences Year 11-12 Curriculum requirements
Module II: The WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority Humanities and Social Sciences Year 11-12 Content
Module III: Teaching, assessing and reporting Humanities and Social Sciences Year 11-12
Module IV: Planning to teach Humanities and Social Sciences Year 11-12
Module V: Accessing higher learning outcomes for self and others