Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-ST1-EXT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-ST1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-ST1-INT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-ST1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

Enrolment in the M1230 Master of Teaching (Primary)
Enrolment in M1284 Master of Teaching (Secondary)

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Learning outcomes

1.

Apply knowledge of the cognitive, social and emotional development and characteristics of students relevant to your teaching area to recommend specific strategies to promote child development.

2.

Synthesize knowledge of the Behaviourist, Constructivist, Social-Cognitive an Humanist views of learning to recommend specific strategies to promote effective learning and teaching for students of diverse backgrounds. 

3.

Examine theories and concepts on motivation and engagement to critique strategies for effective learning and teaching for students of diverse backgrounds. 

4.

Critically evaluate research on how students learn and the implications for teaching to develop your own philosophy of teaching and justify your philosophy through the key theories associated with effective learning processes. 

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Topic 1: Learners and learning: An introduction

Topic 2: Learner physical and cognitive development

Topic 3: Learner social, emotional and moral development

Topic 4: Behavioural views of learning

Topic 5: Cognitive views of learning (Part A)

Topic 6: Cognitive views of learning (Part B)

Topic 7: Humanist views of learning

Topic 8: Motivation and engagement

Topic 9: Sociocultural factors in the learning process

Topic 10: Learners and learning: Connecting beliefs and theory

Other notes:

This unit is a prerequisite for EDN568 (MTeach Primary) and EDN584 (MTeach Secondary)