EDF2078 · Creative and critical teaching

Overview

In this unit, you will be introduced to the companion concepts of creativity and criticality. You will be invited to reflect on, and reconsider, your existing beliefs about the nature of creativity and criticality. You will learn about the role of critical and creative thinking in student learning, strategies for cultivating creative and critical dispositions among learners, and the influence of creative teaching on student learning. As a secondary teaching specialist, you will explore the concept of critical and creative thinking as both a general capability and its application across a range of secondary teaching methods. In this unit, you will achieve the knowledge outcomes about teaching creativity and criticality by engaging as learners with a range of critical and creative pedagogical practices.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. understand the relationship between creative teaching and teaching creativity and criticality
2. articulate the key concepts, content, and skills of critical and creative thinking
3. demonstrate research-informed understandings of how students learn critical and creative dispositions and thinking skills
4. appreciate the challenges associated with teaching and assessing creativity and criticality
5. analyse and evaluate strategies and resources for teaching creativity and criticality.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.