EDF5176 · Science: Psychology in secondary years B

Overview

This unit builds on EDF5175 Science: Psychology in secondary years A as it continues to explore the learning and teaching of psychology in secondary schools. It enables you to continue to develop your professional knowledge to teach psychology, offering a strong foundation for you to become an innovative and purposeful curriculum-maker. It extends your ability to plan, enact and adjust as appropriate a range of teaching and learning strategies to meet the needs of a diverse range of learners in a variety of settings and curricula contexts. It encourages you to engage with contemporary ideas and research literature and consider the philosophy that underpins your teaching. It continues to encourage you to consider the purpose of teaching psychology in schools and psychology's place within secondary schools and focuses more on critiquing Australian and international curricula, proposing curricula in response to societal issues, and innovative technologies this semester. You will develop an appreciation of how working in collaborative teams, and regularly engaging in critical conversations about teaching and learning, psychology experiences and research literature, are an essential part of the professional work of a teacher of psychology.

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. demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and scope of psychology as a subject in secondary schools and consider its purpose, relevance and appropriateness as a standalone or integrated subject across all year levels and embedded within whole school programs
2. demonstrate an understanding of the principles of curriculum-making, and apply a critical lens on psychology’s place in the curriculum and the psychology content of current curriculum policy in Australia and internationally and the future-focused directions, the pedagogical perspectives and related issues, forms of assessment and the implications for your classroom teaching of psychology
3. demonstrate an awareness of the ways in which psychology education research helps inform teacher practice to enhance students' learning of psychology, including a critical awareness and understanding of the complexities of teaching and learning psychology, and the barriers raised by traditional curriculum
4. demonstrate competence in planning purposeful and relevant learning experiences, including selecting and utilising purposeful, ethical and inclusive pedagogical procedures and assessment strategies that inspire students to learn and act in positive, sustainable and ethical ways and meet the current and future needs of your students and society in an ever changing and uncertain world
5. work collaboratively with peers to help articulate the pedagogical issues and research into teaching and learning psychology, and demonstrating your ability to work together to create and justify innovative and purposeful curriculum-making work for a specific school and classroom context
6. reflect critically on the development of your own teaching and learning to teach psychology

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.