EDF5905 · Early childhood literacy and numeracy

Overview

This unit explores early literacy and numeracy as core life skills within the context of a broad range of cultural knowledges. The unit investigates a range of modes of communication (multiliteracies) to tease out the knowledge processes of experiencing, conceptualising, analysing and applying knowledge. This includes reference to music, movement, dance, storytelling, visual arts, media and drama, as well as talking, viewing, reading and writing as multiple literacy forms. The unit also covers early numeracy concepts, numbers, mathematical thinking, reasoning, measurement, patterns, spatial awareness, problem solving, collection and analysis of data and how these link to the demands of learning at school, work, home and community. You will understand how to build children's communicative intentions, confidence and capacity. You will also apply approaches to expand children's literacy and numeracy concepts to enable creative and critical interactions across a range of modes and digital settings.

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. develop in-depth understanding of the nature of early literacy and numeracy development in context of everyday life across families and cultures
2. apply discipline knowledge and competency in literacy and numeracy to the education of young children
3. understand teaching of the elements of numeracy and literacy across all curriculum areas including the creative arts
4. use understandings of cross-cultural knowledge of mathematical and literacy development for designing effective pedagogies and programs for literacy and numeracy learning
5. build the capacity to lead literacy and numeracy learning and support children in their efforts to expand standards of literacy and numeracy
6. apply effective literacy and/or numeracy practices in a context of relevance.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 12 hours of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities, 24 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study OR • 36 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via a combination of synchronous and asynchronous directed learning activities and the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study^ ^ International students studying in Australia are not permitted to undertake this scheduled learning delivery mode 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.