EDF4099 · Developing literacy and numeracy

Overview

An important aim of education is to develop literate and numerate citizens who are well-equipped to learn at school, and are able to use language and mathematics confidently so they can participate fully in opportunities for employment and community life post-school. To achieve this aim, teachers of all subject areas must share in the responsibility of educating literate and numerate students. In this unit the teaching of literacy and numeracy is examined from a number of current theoretical perspectives, drawing on contemporary research. You will learn how to develop appropriate teaching strategies that maximise student learning of oral language, reading, writing, and visual and digital literacies. You will explore strategies for teaching the key ideas of numeracy so you can develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours to use mathematics across a range of subjects and in your lives. You will also explore various ways of developing and assessing literacy and numeracy across the curriculum, in different learning areas and through integrated approaches.

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

Learning outcomes

1. explain the importance of literacy and numeracy in schooling, drawing on a range of current theoretical perspectives and contemporary research
2. identify literacy and numeracy learning opportunities within different learning areas and through integrated approaches across the curriculum
3. demonstrate knowledge of a range of teaching strategies for developing student literacy and numeracy
4. plan for improving student literacy and numeracy for students who come from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socio-economic backgrounds
5. understand varied ways of formatively and summatively assessing literacy and numeracy.

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 *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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