LITERACY AND NUMERACY IN SECONDARY SCHOOL
EDU5LNS
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject students focus on personal, conceptual, understandings of literacy and numeracy. Students apply broad teaching strategies to promote understanding of how literacy and numeracy impact on teaching and learning within their discipline areas.
School: School of Education
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Rebecca Miles-Keogh
Available to Study Abroad Students: Yes
Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters
Exchange Students: Yes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: N/A
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
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Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Analyse literacy and numeracy teaching strategies and their application in discipline areas.
- Activities:
- Contemporary understandings of research evidence related to teaching reading, writing, speaking, listening and mathematics.
02. Teach reading and writing, speaking and listening and mathematics appropriate to teaching level and area using approaches based on knowledge and evidence.
- Activities:
- Resources to support teaching of students# literacy and numeracy learning appropriate to discipline areas.
03. Apply a range of targeted teaching and assessment strategies, and resources, in reading, writing, speaking, listening and mathematics.
- Activities:
- Diagnostic tests and discussion about value of testing/progression. Problem solving as a pedagogical approach inclusive of literacy/numeracy.