PERSONAL LITERACY AND NUMERACY SKILL DEVELOPMENT
EDU3PLN
2020
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
Pre-Service Teachers will build an understanding of literacy and numeracy as social practices. Pre-Service Teachers will examine and review essential literacy and numeracy skills required by teachers. Pre-Service Teachers will be required to identify and examine their own literacy and numeracy capabilities and practices and developed these through a series of online skill-development modules. Through weekly reflections, students will improve their understandings of their own literacy and numeracy skills, in order to meet the literacy and numeracy demands of teachers.
School: Education (Pre 2022)
Credit points: 15
Subject Co-ordinator: Karen O'Reilly-Briggs
Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: No
Subject year level: Year Level 3 - UG
Available as Elective: No
Learning Activities: In class (Seminars) discussion of topics raised in lectures. Lectures and readings will form the topics that students will be assessed with preparation facilitated online practice test.
Capstone subject: No
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites: Students must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Technology Education (EBTE or EBTEB)
Co-requisites: N/A
Incompatible subjects: N/A
Equivalent subjects: N/A
Quota Management Strategy: N/A
Quota-conditions or rules: N/A
Special conditions: N/A
Minimum credit point requirement: N/A
Assumed knowledge: N/A
Learning resources
Cambridge Numeracy Handbook for VCAL, Melbourne
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Gunningham S
Year: 2006
Edition/Volume: N/A
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: N/A
Chapter/article title: N/A
Chapter/issue: N/A
URL: N/A
Other description: N/A
Source location: N/A
Literacy Skills Test
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Johnson, J., & Bond, B.
Year: 2015
Edition/Volume: 4th ed
Publisher: London: Sage
ISBN: N/A
Chapter/article title: N/A
Chapter/issue: N/A
URL: N/A
Other description: N/A
Source location: N/A
Cambridge Literacy Handbook for VCAL,Melbourne
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Hodge R & Ridley C
Year: 2006
Edition/Volume: N/A
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: N/A
Chapter/article title: N/A
Chapter/issue: N/A
URL: N/A
Other description: N/A
Source location: N/A
Numeracy Skills Test
Resource Type: Book
Resource Requirement: Recommended
Author: Patmore, M.
Year: 2015
Edition/Volume: 6th ed
Publisher: London: Sage
ISBN: N/A
Chapter/article title: N/A
Chapter/issue: N/A
URL: N/A
Other description: N/A
Source location: N/A
Career Ready
Career-focused: No
Work-based learning: No
Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A
Entire subject or partial subject: N/A
Total hours/days required: N/A
Location of WBL activity (region): N/A
WBL addtional requirements: N/A
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
Graduate Capabilities
Intended Learning Outcomes
Bendigo, 2020, Semester 1, Blended
Overview
Online enrolment: Yes
Maximum enrolment size: N/A
Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Karen O'Reilly-Briggs
Class requirements
Lecture/SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
Four 7.00 hours lecture/seminar per study period on weekends during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
All classes will be conducted on the Bundoora campus
Scheduled Online ClassWeek: 10 - 22
Two 2.00 hours scheduled online class per study period on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.
Zoom Sessions
Unscheduled Online ClassWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours unscheduled online class per week on any day including weekend during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.
Assessments
| Assessment element | Category | Contribution | Hurdle | % | ILO* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Create a personalised study timetable to develop literacy and numeracy skills (750 words) | Other | Individual | No | 20 | SILO1, SILO2 |
Narrated Presentation demonstrating literacy and numeracy skills (2000 words) | Oral presentation | Individual | No | 50 | SILO3 |
Undertake a University based literacy and numeracy test (1250 words) Completion of a literacy numeracy test will be undertaken in this subject as part of Professional Accreditation Requirements.Hurdle must be passed in order to pass subject. 2 attempts will be given to pass this hurdle task. | Other written exam | Individual | Yes | 30 | SILO4 |
Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 1, Blended
Overview
Online enrolment: Yes
Maximum enrolment size: N/A
Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Karen O'Reilly-Briggs
Class requirements
Lecture/SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
Three 7.00 hours lecture/seminar per study period on weekends during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.
All face to face classes will be conducted on the Bundoora campus.
Scheduled Online ClassWeek: 10 - 22
Two 2.00 hours scheduled online class per study period on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.
Zoom Sessions
Unscheduled Online ClassWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours unscheduled online class per week on any day including weekend during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via online.
Online
Assessments
| Assessment element | Category | Contribution | Hurdle | % | ILO* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Create a personalised study timetable to develop literacy and numeracy skills (750 words) | Other | Individual | No | 20 | SILO1, SILO2 |
Narrated Presentation demonstrating literacy and numeracy skills (2000 words) | Oral presentation | Individual | No | 50 | SILO3 |
Undertake a University based literacy and numeracy test (1250 words) Completion of a literacy numeracy test will be undertaken in this subject as part of Professional Accreditation Requirements.Hurdle must be passed in order to pass subject. 2 attempts will be given to pass this hurdle task. | Other written exam | Individual | Yes | 30 | SILO4 |