units

EDF6412

Faculty of Education

18 September 2017 22 December 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Education
OfferedClayton First semester 2015 (Off-campus block of classes)
Coordinator(s)Professor Peter Sullivan

Synopsis

This unit is only offered to cohorts.
This unit examines the challenge of leading improvement in numeracy and mathematics teaching, which involves establishing possible goals for teaching, establishing relevant baselines, using evidence to inform planning and teaching, establishing interim targets, and considering processes for prompting and supporting teacher improvement. This includes examination of models of teaching mathematics and models of numeracy teacher learning and the challenges associated with the various models. In particular the E5 model for planning teaching and evaluating teaching mathematics and numeracy will be examined in detail and the ways that this can be used to inform teacher self-evaluation. The unit also includes the processes for gathering evidence about numeracy teaching and student learning, the processes for analysing such evidence and the techniques of preparing reports that can serve as an initiator of improvement.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. examine the nature of knowledge for teaching numeracy and mathematics and ways of defining and enhancing such knowledge
  2. explore processes for working with teachers that can allow critique of numeracy, mathematics and the ways these are learned
  3. develop strategies for working with teachers that have the effect of engaging them in numeracy learning while examining their own beliefs about numeracy and mathematics teaching
  4. gather and analyse evidence of numeracy learning
  5. consider the approaches and processes of whole school numeracy and mathematics plans.

Assessment

Analytical report (4000 words, 50%)
Developmental project (4000 words, 50%)

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 24 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours:

  • attendance at multiple teaching sessions

(b.) Additional requirements

  • independent study to make up the minimum required hours per week

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Chief examiner(s)

Professor Peter Sullivan