EDF5143 · Humanities: History in secondary years A

Overview

This unit introduces you to the teaching and learning of history as either a stand-alone discipline or an identifiable and rigorous component of an integrated program in either Australian or overseas schools or wider educational settings. Successful completion of this unit will enable you to demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills, as well as dispositions relevant to different history education settings. The unit is practice-based, research-informed and resource-rich. It embraces diverse histories, models of historical literacy and thinking, pedagogies and technologies, and prepares you, as a pre-service teacher, to tailor history education experiences to meet your learners' different learning, career, leisure and life needs. The unit explores your personal philosophies as well as the latest national and international research on why students should learn about the past. It aligns itself with Australian and Victorian Curriculum cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities. It explores diverse socio-cultural and environmental curriculum perspectives, civics and citizenship education and values education imperatives, strategies for engaging and purposeful lesson-planning and delivery, 'teaching by the textbook and the website', teacher-directed as well as student-centered questioning, English language proficiency including assisting students for whom English is an additional language, preparations for school placement, introductions to inquiry methodology, and other learning and teaching approaches common to history education.

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. begin to develop your learners' study, career, leisure and life skills through the knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and behaviours associated specifically with the study of history
2. begin to locate, create, use and evaluate history education resources in diverse forms incorporating diverse perspectives and inclusive approaches
3. begin to articulate the research underpinnings of models of historical literacy and thinking, and other pedagogical approaches common to history education, such as inquiry methodology, and enact effectively such models and approaches in diverse learning settings
4. begin to cater to learners' different needs through inclusive strategies and engaging and diverse teaching, learning and assessment activities
5. begin to develop learners' abilities to demonstrate problem-solving capabilities in a variety of ways including creatively, collaboratively and with competence in information and communication technologies (ICTs)
6. begin to facilitate learners' identification of continuities and changes, and similarities and differences between the experiences of peoples in the past and the present ,and between the experiences of peoples in different locations
7. begin to develop learners' empathy, values, attitudes and behaviours consistent with informed and positive local and global citizenship for a more equitable and sustainable world.

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.