English in the Primary Years: Focus on Writing and Creating (EDEE450)

Learning outcomes

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

1. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of research into how students learn to write and the implications for classroom teaching and learning (GTSD 1.2.1);
2. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of language, literacy and texts (and their grammatical and visual features) relevant to teaching writing and creating in the Australian Curriculum: English and the NSW English K–10 Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum (GTSD 2.1.1);
3. demonstrate knowledge of strategies for teaching writing and creating that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, including strategies for teaching explicitly about the context, language features (paragraph, sentence, word levels) and multimodal features of texts (GTSD 1.3.1, 2.3.1, 2.6.1);
4. demonstrate knowledge of strategies for teaching literacy, and their application in writing and creating texts in English and other learning areas (GTSD 2.1.1, 2.5.1);
5. apply an understanding of assessment strategies, including informal and formal, diagnostic, formative and summative approaches, to assess student learning against curriculum achievement standards and/or syllabus outcomes for writing and creating (GTSD 5.2.1, 5.4.1); and
6. design an integrated unit of work using knowledge of curriculum, assessment and reporting, student learning and effective strategies for teaching writing and representing in English, including strategies to evaluate the unit (GTSD 2.3.1, 2.6.1, 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.6.1).