Key facts
UNE unit code: EDEE300
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- Trimester 1 - On Campus
- Trimester 1 - Online
- Trimester 2 - On Campus
- Trimester 2 - Online
- Armidale Campus
- Yes
- No
- No
- 6
Unit information
Literacies and numeracies form the foundations for future learning. As a teacher in a classroom, you need to engage students from diverse backgrounds and with a range of learning needs.
You will examine the literacy and numeracy demands, requirements and teaching strategies relevant to all curriculum areas.
This unit provides you with conceptual frameworks to support understanding, and practical guidance to plan and deliver a program which addresses language, literacy, and numeracy in all subject areas.
Special attention is given to your personal literacy and numeracy skills and your obligation to achieve and maintain the highest standards of literacy and numeracy as part of your professional practice.
Offerings
For further information about UNE's teaching periods, please go to Principal Dates.
Teaching period | Mode/location |
---|---|
Trimester 1 | On Campus, Armidale Campus |
Trimester 1 | Online |
Trimester 2 | On Campus, Armidale Campus |
Trimester 2 | Online |
Trimester 3 | Online |
*Offering is subject to availability
Intensive schools
There are no intensive schools required for this unit.
Enrolment rules
Notes
This unit addresses Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the Graduate Stage, otherwise referred to as Graduate Teacher Standard Descriptors (GTSD).
Please refer to the student handbook for current details on this unit.
Unit coordinator(s)
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- explore and consider the application of home and community literacy practices, including those of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and others from diverse backgrounds, and consider them in relation to the development of teaching, learning and assessment strategies at school (GTSD 1.3.1, 1.4.1, 2.4.1, 7.4.1);
- develop knowledge and understanding of strategies and research into engagement of students across the full range of abilities in relevant, critically challenging, curriculum-based activities to build literacy and numeracy skills (GTSD 1.2.1, 1.5.1, 2.5.1);
- build a repertoire of explicit and effective literacy and numeracy teaching strategies appropriate to relevant syllabus documents including the application of ICT and the New Literacies to engage students in their learning, evaluate teaching programs, and improve learning (GTSD 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 3.3.1, 3.4.1, 3.6.1);
- analyse student work samples to identify areas of literacy/numeracy need, provide accurate and appropriate oral and written feedback, modify teaching practice, and develop strategies for student support, including the support of students with additional learning needs (GTSD 1.5.1, 4.1.1, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.4.1); and
- nterpret and demonstrate knowledge of NSW or other syllabus documents that address literacy and numeracy demands, to program and plan units of work and demonstrate an understanding of the importance of a continuing focus on literacy and numeracy across all areas of the curriculum (GTSD 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.5.1, 3.2.1).
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
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Assessment 1 | Yes | 25% | All offerings | Essay. Relates to GTSD: 1.3.1, 1.4.1, 1.5.1, 2.4.1, 4.1.1, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.4.1, 7.4.1 No. Words: 1000 |
Assessment 2 | Yes | 25% | All offerings | Online quizzes and forum discussion. Relates to GTSD: 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 1.4.1, 1.5.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.4.1, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.4.1, 3.6.1, 4.1.1, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.4.1, 7.4.1 No. Words: 1000 (equivalent) |
Assessment 3 | Yes | 50% | All offerings | Portfolio. Relates to GTSD: 1.5.1, 2.1.1, 2.2.1, 2.3.1, 2.5.1, 2.6.1, 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.4.1, 3.6.1, 4.1.1, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.4.1 No. Words: 2000 |
Participation requirement | Yes | All offerings | All on-campus students must attend and participate in a minimum of 80% tutorials, with non-attendance to be satisfactorily accounted for, e.g. by a doctor's certificate. All students must participate in topic forums as specified in unit information and assessment requirements in the Moodle site. Students not meeting this requirement will receive an NC (Compulsory Fail) grade for the unit. |
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Numeracy Across the Curriculum: Research-Based Strategies for Enhancing Teaching and Learning
ISBN: 9781760297886
Goos, M. and others, A&U Academic 2020
Text refers to: All offerings
Teaching Language in Context
ISBN: 9780190333874
Derewianka, B. and Jones, P., Oxford University Press 3rd edition 2023
Text refers to: All offerings
Note: Recommended material is held in the University Library — purchase is optional.
Literacy in Australia: Pedagogies for Engagement
ISBN: 9780730369240
Flint, S., Kitson, L., Lowe, K. and Shaw, K., John Wiley and Sons 3rd ed. 2019
Text refers to: Trimester 1 (On Campus), Trimester 1 (Online)
Literacy in Australia: Pedagogies for Engagement
ISBN: 9781394183838
Flint, S., Kitson, L., Lowe, K. and Shaw, K., John Wiley and Sons 4th ed. 2024
Text refers to: Trimester 2 (On Campus), Trimester 2 (Online), Trimester 3 (Online)
Helping Children Learn Mathematics
ISBN: 9780730391807
Reys, R.E. and others, Wiley 4th Ed. 2019
Text refers to: All offerings
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