HSIE: Teaching About People, Places and the Past

Abstract

This subject provides teacher education students with the curriculum and pedagogical knowledge that will enable them to be teachers of Humanities and Social Sciences K-6. In this subject, teacher education students will specifically engage with the knowledge and understandings, skills and values of the NSW Human Society and its Environment (HSIE) learning area and examine how these are represented in mandated syllabuses. Teacher education students will develop an understanding of teaching and assessment strategies and resources (including digital resources) and design HSIE curriculum teaching and learning sequences. Students will create authentic learning experiences that are informed by understandings of inquiry-based learning, place-based pedagogies and cross-curriculum priorities.

Syllabus

Humanities and Social Sciences curricula in AustraliaThe scope and continuum of the HSIE learning area (Early Stage 1-Stage 4)History curriculum and pedagogyGeography curriculum and pedagogyInquiry and place-based pedagogies in HSIEPlanning and assessment for the diverse primary classroom, using a backward design approachDeveloping ethical values through Civics and Citizenship educationCross-Curriculum priorities … For more content click the Read More button below.

Humanities and Social Sciences curricula in Australia
The scope and continuum of the HSIE learning area (Early Stage 1-Stage 4)
History curriculum and pedagogy
Geography curriculum and pedagogy
Inquiry and place-based pedagogies in HSIE
Planning and assessment for the diverse primary classroom, using a backward design approach
Developing ethical values through Civics and Citizenship education
Cross-Curriculum priorities (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures, Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia, and Sustainability) Interdisciplinary HSIE
General capabilities in Humanities and Social Sciences (including Literacy and Numeracy in HSIE)
Resources in the primary HSIE classroom; incorporating Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Strategies for teaching and learning in HSIE

Assessment items

1. Reflecting on the HSIE/Humanities curriculum

2. Unit of Learning

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

be able to plan learning experiences that demonstrate understanding of the NSW History K-10 Syllabus and NSW Geography Syllabus, Early Stage 1-Stage 3;

be able to incorporate a range of strategies and resources for teaching and assessing primary history and geography in a sequence of learning;

be able to articulate a rationale for teaching HSIE in primary classrooms, which includes inquiry-based and place-based pedagogies;

be able to design meaningful learning experiences that connect the HSIE curricula with the community;

be able to incorporate literacy, numeracy and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) capabilities in HSIE learning programs; and

be able to describe the cross-curriculum priorities and their relationship to the HSIE learning area and embed the cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities in HSIE learning sequences.

Assumed knowledge

IKC101 or IKC103

Enrolment restrictions

This subject is not available to students who have completed EMH419 as it shares similar content.

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