Successful Teaching

Abstract

This subject focuses on the principles and practices of the profession of teaching and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and their relationship and alignment with the CSU Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs). The subject provides students with the opportunity to critically engage with key ideas about the CSU GLOs in the context of the profession of teaching, responding to key curriculum priorities, and how teaching knowledge and skill develops with professional practice and reflection. Students have opportunities to identify and examine a range of evidence-based teaching and learning strategies employed in teaching school students, and review how, when, where and why selected teaching and learning strategies are implemented in teaching contexts. Students develop and evaluate core teaching and learning strategies in relation to developing key literacy and numeracy skills in a learning activities sequence, and align these to the specificities of the classroom context and their teaching area. This subject provides a platform for students to build upon as they develop and extend their knowledge and skills in the profession of teaching over the remainder of their teacher education course. While this subject engages with all of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, it specifically contributes toward the achievement of: 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 7.3 and 7.4, at the graduate level.

Syllabus

Conceptions of successful teaching and successful teachersThe Australian Professional Standards for Teachers - origins and applicationsThe Quality Teaching Framework and classroom applicationsThe relationship of the CSU Graduate Learning Outcomes to teachingAddressing the diverse learning needs of students in classroom teaching and learningTypes of professional knowledge in the profession of teaching … For more content click the Read More button below.

Conceptions of successful teaching and successful teachers
The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers - origins and applications
The Quality Teaching Framework and classroom applications
The relationship of the CSU Graduate Learning Outcomes to teaching
Addressing the diverse learning needs of students in classroom teaching and learning
Types of professional knowledge in the profession of teaching - implications for teaching and learning
The Australian Curriculum - origins and development
Current teaching and learning strategies, including ICT - principles and practices
Planning for effective teaching and learning - processes for programming and lesson planning
Effective teaching and learning strategies, engaging approaches and resources
Matching and adapting teaching and learning strategies in classroom and curriculum contexts
Differentiating teaching and learning for specific learning needs and the diversity of students
Strategies for effective communication and feedback with students, families and community
Developing and maintaining a classroom environment for effective teaching and learning
Integrating literacy and numeracy skills for effective teaching and learning
Professional learning and professionalism in teaching
Professional ethics and responsibilities in the teaching profession
Engaging with teachers to broaden professional knowledge and practice

Assessment items

1. Professional Knowledge Conversation & Analysis

2. Student Learning Activities

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

be able to analyse professional teaching principles and practices, including effective teaching and learning strategies;

be able to examine and assess a range of teaching and learning strategies, including ICT, that engage students in their learning;

be able to design and develop a sequence of learning activities using knowledge of effective teaching and learning strategies and resources;

be able to incorporate in planning for learning activities a range of appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication strategies to support student engagement;

be able to explain the foundations of literacy and numeracy teaching and learning, and design effective strategies for their application and differentiation in teaching areas;

be able to explain the ways core teaching and learning strategies can be adapted for diverse classroom settings in a curriculum area;

be able to apply knowledge and skills related to research, and examine professional practices for teaching core literacy and numeracy skills; and

be able to communicate to a professional audience a synthesis of a current Australian teacher's professional practice.

Enrolment restrictions

This subject is only available to students enrolled in the Master of Teaching courses.

This subject is not available to students enrolled in EED408 as it is a paired subject.