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EDMT6611: Languages Curriculum 3
2024 unit information
This unit is designed to build on knowledge, skills and competencies developed in Languages Curriculum 1 and 2 to guide and prepare students for their future teaching. Students continue to investigate cases of languages and cultures education, honing skills for understandings and competencies for lifelong professional development. Students will gain broad understandings about the nature and scope of languages education in the NSW context, about traditional and more contemporary and innovative classroom practices and particular aspects of policy and NESA documentation
Unit details and rules
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Education
| Code | EDMT6611 |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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48 credit points including EDMT5611 and EDMT5661 |
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Corequisites:
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EDMT6500 |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. together with a small number of classmates, present an oral group presentation demonstrating suitable knowledge about languages pedagogies for teaching senior languages classes, knowledge of practical approaches to managing student behaviour and their applications in the languages classroom, and knowledge of principles and practices for managing languages classroom discipline, thereby contributing to discussions about the language teaching profession and subject content
- LO2. demonstrate an ability to design a 4-6 week unit of work for a language class, including accompanying required materials, identifying and articulating clear and appropriate learning goals in unit scoping, selection of content in logical sequence, knowledge and choice of suitable learning/teaching materials, a range of assessment strategies, the link between assessment and outcomes, a rationale and strategy for keeping student learning records, and knowledge of the way teachers can use student results to plan later teaching, also demonstrating students' different approaches to learning
- LO3. demonstrate strategies employed to maintain skills and proficiencies in the target language, commenting on the implications for improved student learning for their future classes, particularly in the areas of working with senior students in Stage 6 languages courses.
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