School Of EducationTeaching K-6: Pedagogies, Priorities and CapabilitiesWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 102749.1
Discipline: TEACHER EDUCATION: PRIMARY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
102116 - Learning, Teaching and Technologies
Incompatible Units
102132 - Learning Futures and Curriculum Integration
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Education (Primary) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
About this Unit
The unit will develop students’ knowledge and skills for planning and teaching in K-6 classrooms using both the Cross-Curriculum Priority Areas (CPPA) through the incorporation of the seven General Capabilities (GC). The unit enables the delivery of learning area content focusing on key learning areas, HSIE and English at the same time as developing knowledge, understanding and skills relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia and/or Sustainability. The unit will explore how Literacy, Numeracy, ICT capability and Critical and creative thinking are fundamental in students becoming successful lifelong learners whilst the areas of Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding, and Intercultural understanding focus on ways of being, behaving and learning to live with others, and taught through the HSIE and English learning areas.
Courses| 1717.3 | Bachelor of Education (Primary) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education | CURRENT |