Key facts

UNE unit code: EDME392

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Start
  • Trimester 1 - On Campus
  • Trimester 1 - Online
Campus
  • Armidale Campus
24/7 online support
  • Yes
Intensive schools
  • No
Supervised exam
  • No
Credit points
  • 6

Unit information

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Hone your ability to foster lifelong learning and support students to become confident, creative users and communicators of mathematics.

This unit introduces you to Junior Secondary Mathematics as a continuum from primary mathematics, investigating philosophical and theoretical perspectives.

Drawing on relevant content from the K-10 Mathematics Syllabus you will explore developmental teaching theories and the psychology of learning mathematics.

With skills to integrate innovative strategies into your teaching as part of ongoing professional development, you will also build skills to design teaching and learning sequences that allow students to play an active role in learning.

You will also learn how to design effective mathematics instructions informed by cognitive load theory, support students to use tools to promote mathematical problem solving and communication and learn strategies for assessment task development.

Offerings

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Teaching period
Mode/location
Trimester 1On Campus, Armidale Campus
Trimester 1Online

*Offering is subject to availability

Intensive schools

There are no intensive schools required for this unit.

Enrolment rules

Pre-requisites
candidature in AssocDTeach(PacFocus) or BEd(K-12Teach) or BEd(InServConv) or BEd(SecMath) or BEd(SecMusic) or BEd(SecSc) or MTeach(Sec) from 2015; AND for BEd(SecMath) or BEd(SecMusic) or BEd(SecSc) students admitted from 2016: 48 cp non-education units
Co-requisites
EDLT125 or EDLT400 or EDLT485 or EDLT500 or EDUC104 or EDUC105 or EDUC106 or EDUC404; or candidature in BEd(InServConv)

Notes

This unit addresses Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the Graduate Stage, otherwise referred to as Graduate Teacher Standard Descriptors (GTSD).

Please refer to the student handbook for current details on this unit.

Unit coordinator(s)

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Bing NguAssociate Professor in Mathematics Education, Mathematics education - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the models of pedagogy of the Junior Secondary Mathematics Syllabus (Stages 4 and 5) including Stage 3, a K–12 perspective, the Life Skills curriculum and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives (GTSD 1.3.1, 1.6.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.6.1);
  2. organise content into effective learning and teaching sequences and lesson plans, demonstrating knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities (GTSD 1.3.1, 1.6.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.5.1, 3.1.1, 3.5.1);
  3. plan a suite of ‘assessment for learning’ and ‘assessment of learning’ to assess students’ learning while using curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning sequences and lesson plans (GTSD 1.3.1, 2.3.1, 2.6.1, 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.5.1);
  4. show an understanding of the implication of learning theories in designing effective learning activities, assessment, differentiation and feedback (GTSD 1.3.1, 1.6.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 3.2.1, 3.5.1); and
  5. understand a rationale for appropriate sources of professional learning in order to incorporate a wide range of tools, resources, and innovative strategies and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching (GTSD 1.3.1, 1.6.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.6.1, 3.5.1).

Assessment information

Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.

TitleMust CompleteWeightOfferingsAssessment Notes
Assessment 1Yes50%All offerings

Lesson Plan. Relates to GTSD: 1.3.1, 1.6.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.5.1

No. Words: 2000

Assessment 2Yes50%All offerings

Written task. Relates to GTSD: 1.3.1, 1.6.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.5.1

No. Words: 2000

Learning resources

Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.

Teaching Secondary Mathematics

ISBN: 9781108984683

Hine, G., Anderson, J., Reaburn, R., Cavanagh, M., Galligan, L., Ngu, B. and White, B., Cambridge University Press 2nd ed. 2021

Text refers to: All offerings

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