Monash University Education Handbook, 1997

EDN1095

Teaching studies 1 (primary)

Not offered in 1997

Mr R T White

4 points
* 2 hours per week (plus practicum in primary schools)
* Peninsula

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to enunciate a number of factors affecting classroom administration and organisation; outline the factors affecting the transition of children from the pre-school phase of life to the primary school, and the structure of school programs designed to minimise the trauma of this transition; discuss and compare their off-campus experiences with the experiences of other students, reflecting on the teaching and class management styles they have encountered, exploring why teachers utilise different approaches and strategies; discuss the basic teaching model in terms of framing and formulating lesson aims and objectives, establishing pupil entering behaviour, determining and using instructional aids, sequencing instruction, and evaluating lesson outcomes; demonstrate a basic understanding of concepts central to the notion of `curricula', schooling and education.

Synopsis This subject consists of two complementary strands. Strand `A' introduces students to the fundamental components of a lesson through examination and discussion of a simple teaching model. This strand gives students the opportunity to reacquaint themselves with the primary school; engage in extended observation of practicing teachers in functioning classrooms, and to undertake basic lesson planning in both an on-campus and school-based setting (with several sessions taking place in nearby primary schools). Strand `B' is also an on-campus and school-based program which provides students with the opportunity to examine fundamental curriculum and related organisational matters.

Assessment Examination (strand `A'): 40%
* Examination (strand `B'): 40%
* School-based assignment: 20%

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