EDN2095

Teaching studies 3 (primary)

Not offered in 1998

Mr R T White

4 points
* 2 hours per week
* First semester
* Peninsula
* Prerequisite: EDN1095

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to undertake teaching responsibilities and practise basic teaching skills in middle-level grades for daily periods ranging from two hours to a half-day in duration; 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 typical day-to-day inter-relationship problems encountered by teachers dealing with parents, teachers, pupils, school administration and the community; demonstrate an understanding of simple disciplinary strategies conducive to maintaining classroom discipline and management; examine and discuss alternative theories and approaches to discipline, with particular emphasis on the decisive discipline approach.

Synopsis This subject consists of two complementary strands. The strand `A' off-campus program involves a wide range of teaching and classroom management responsibilities for the middle-level primary grades, both within the classroom and in outdoor and special education settings. The on-campus sessions explore problems affecting teacher- pupil, teacher- parent, and teacher- administrator relationships. The aim of strand `B' is to enable students to examine issues relating to classroom discipline and the impact of pupil behaviour on classroom organisation and pupil achievement.

Assessment Practice-teaching (strand `A', off-campus): 48%
* Practical class exercises (strand `A', on-campus): 12%
* Examination (strand `B', on-campus): 28%
* Assignment: 12%

Recommended texts

Good T L and Brophy J E Looking in classrooms Harper and Row, 1984
Rogers W A Decisive discipline Institute of Educational Administration, Geelong, 1989