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

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing
DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Creativity and Innovation
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Examine expectations of literacy and numeracy skills required for teaching.
02. Compose a list of literacy and numeracy skills that need development in order to be prepared to teach in a secondary school setting.
03. Construct new literacy and numeracy knowledge in preparation for internal and external examination.
04. Identify their own capabilities within a range of literacy and numeracy concepts and applications.

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 elementCommentsCategoryContributionHurdle%ILO*

Create a personalised study timetable to develop literacy and numeracy skills (750 words)

N/AOtherIndividualNo20SILO1, SILO2

Narrated Presentation demonstrating literacy and numeracy skills (2000 words)

N/AOral presentationIndividualNo50SILO3

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.

N/AOther written examIndividualYes30SILO4

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 elementCommentsCategoryContributionHurdle%ILO*

Create a personalised study timetable to develop literacy and numeracy skills (750 words)

N/AOtherIndividualNo20SILO1, SILO2

Narrated Presentation demonstrating literacy and numeracy skills (2000 words)

N/AOral presentationIndividualNo50SILO3

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.

N/AOther written examIndividualYes30SILO4