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Unit of Study EDUC3019 - HSIE: Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy II (2025)

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  • Enrolment information

    All students must have completed the curriculum and pedagogy II unit/s for their teaching area/s prior to their final professional placement.

Unit description

Builds on HSIE: Secondary Curriculum and Pedagogy I to extend students’ understanding of secondary teaching in the key learning area of Human Society and its Environment (HSIE). Students focus on Years 11–12 (Stage 6) syllabuses within the continuum of learning. The unit encourages critical engagement with the role, value, requirements and current issues of HSIE.   Students will design lessons, assessments, resources and activities related to units from their subject syllabus. These designs will be informed by a range of teaching and learning priorities including critical, creative and connected inquiry-based learning, differentiation, disability and inclusion, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander cultures, digital technologies, literacy and numeracy.  

Unit content

Module 1: Curriculum, Learning Area, Subject and Stage

Module 2: Syllabus, Program, and Unit Structure

Module 3: Assessment Design and Application

Module 4: Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Application

Module 5: Lesson and Unit Design and Application 

Module 6: Resources & Activity Design and Application

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Summer Term
Term3
Summer Term
Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate a broad and critical understanding of the knowledge base of Stage 6 HSIE syllabi, including recent theory and research in the relevant disciplines

develop engaging units of work and lesson plans and resources related to selected theoretical and practical content of the Stage 6 HSIE syllabi, demonstrating familiarity with the required syllabus outcomes, objectives, key competencies, knowledge, skills, and understandings; source and assess the appropriateness of digital and non-digital resources that link to informed and effective teaching and learning across the HSIE Stage 6 syllabi

apply current pedagogical theory, including the NSW DET Quality Teaching Framework, to develop effective teaching and learning strategies that encourage students with a diversity of learning needs, styles and cultural backgrounds to engage effectively with HSIE in Stage 6 skills, as appropriate to the needs and expectations of the profession

assess the literacy and numeracy demands of the suite of HSIE Stage 6 syllabi and develop effective teaching and learning activities to integrate literacy and numeracy strategies; identify and critically examine assessment and reporting procedures and strategies in the context of the Preliminary and HSC standards-referenced assessment framework

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • available in hard copy or electronic: Gilbert, R., Tudball, L., and Brett, P., 2020, Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences, 7th, Cengage, Australia. ISBN: 9780170424165 ebook 9780170293372.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
  • No prescribed resources/equipment.

Prescribed Texts
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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.