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Course description

This course is a compulsory unit of study for all students enrolled in the primary schooling program. It incorporates basic understandings critical to work in this area. This course examines teaching and learning in the early and middle years of schooling with a focus on developing appropriate approaches to pedagogy, curriculum and assessment for effective teaching and learning of children and young people. Unique attributes of 'millennial' and 'Z' generation young people will be used in conjunction with understandings of 'new times' as the basis for this thinking. The course provides understandings of the context specific professional and pedagogical issues which beginning teachers encounter in primary and middle schooling, and identifies specific contextual factors relevant to the contemporary educational environment. Importantly, this course facilitates the development of a personal philosophy of teaching. It also highlights the importance of collaborative team approaches to teaching and learning that are critical work practices for middle years educators in particular, and relatively new to the profession as a 'mainstream' approach to teacher preparation.