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Bases of Educational Decision
Enrolment code: ESI407
Offered: Ltn, s-sch; dist.ed, s-sch
Unit description: Educational curriculums at any level, are governed by high
level aims and goals, and those aims are laid down in various policy
documents. In this unit, students address two value questions: ‘What should
the broad aims of schooling be ‘ and ‘Who should decide such aims?’. In
preparation for rigorous treatment of these questions, some skills of
argumentation and criticism of arguments will be addressed.
Staff: Mr P Davson-Galle
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: nominally, 5 hrs weekly (26 weeks) but the unit operates mostly on
the basis of individual supervision of papers and correspondence with
four Saturday tutorial sessions through the year.
Assess: 2x1,500-word essays (20% ea), a 4,500-word essay and associated
seminar presentation (60%)
Recommended reading:
Crittenden B, Thinking About Education: essays for discussion in teacher
education, Longman, 1996
Schrag F, Back to Basics: fundamental educational questions
re-examined, Jossey-Bass, 1995.
Courses: E3B
Education Study
Enrolment code: ESI408
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Special note: (attendance not required)
Unit description: In-service students work towards developing the skills of
critical enquiry. The major aim is to encourage the investigation of a significant
curriculum issue and deepen understanding through the cycle of
documentation and reflection on teaching and learning processes. The specific
focus is the examination and interpretation of professional practice in order to
develop critical self reflective strategies. The curriculum issue is negotiated with
the unit coordinator and the individual student. The unit requires reading and
written assignments of approximately 6,000 words. The emphasis is placed on
independent enquiry and self-directed learning.
Staff: Ms M Innes
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: 3 inter-related, written assignments
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E3B
Studies in Numeracy
Enrolment code: ESI413
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Considers current definitions of ‘numeracy’ in relation to
other parts of the school curriculum using the recent Australian statements and
profiles in all learning areas. Methods for achieving better numeracy skills
throughout the primary and lower secondary years are covered.
Staff: Dr JM Watson
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: written assignments related to the course and teacher’s professional
work
Required texts, etc:
Willis S (ed), Being Numerate: What Counts, Hawthorn, Vic ACER, 1990
Watson JM, Cautionary Tales: A Collection of Mathematical Essays for
Teachers, AAMT, Adelaide, 1995.
Courses: E3B
Mathematics and Education
Enrolment code: ESI414
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit description: Provides an opportunity to explore a number of ideas about
the nature of mathematics, the way pupils learn mathematics and ways of
teaching mathematics. The unit enables students to reflect on the national
statement and profiles and to consider such notions as working numerately,
assessment alternatives and constructivist classrooms. The unit it designed to
be practically based, with students strongly encouraged to test ideas and
innovations in the mathematics classroom and to explore topics of their own
choice. Specific topics covered are problem solving and reasoning;
pen-and-paper computation and mathematical understanding, writing in
mathematics, and classroom based assessment and assessment alternatives.
Staff: Dr S Dole
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: assignments based on readings, and from reflection on activities tested
with children or in class
Recommended reading:
Lists to be made available.
Courses: E3B
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Health and Physical Education
Enrolment code: ESI419
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Offers teachers an integrated program of study in the area of
teaching health, physical education or recreation. Teachers gain an awareness of
the place of physical education in the overall education of children. They apply
the task analysis approach to devising skill learning sequences and consider
contemporary approaches to curriculum design and program planning in
health, physical education and recreation.
Staff: Mrs R Pryce-Jones
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 3 hrs weekly (20 wks) or equiv
Assess: task analysis assignment (30%), seminar presentation (30%), innovative
program (40%)
Required texts, etc:
Graham G, Holt/Hale S and Parker M, Children Moving: A Reflective Approach to
Teaching Physical Education, 3rd edn, Mayfield, 1993.
Courses: E3B
Music and Education
Enrolment code: ESI420
Offered: Ltn, s-sch
Unit description: Offers experienced teachers an introduction to curriculum
issues in music education and an opportunity to explore the materials and
processes of music. The unit is designed to develop and extend students’
personal skills in music through a practical program based on the music
processes of composing, listening and playing/ singing. Participants will also
examine philosophical, sociological and psychological perspectives of music in
education.
Staff: Dr M Barratt
Unit weight: 25%
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 1 (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI421
Offered: Ltn, sem 1; dist.ed, sem 1
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI471.
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Staff: Mr P Throssell
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 2 (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI422
Offered: Ltn, dist.ed
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI472.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Prereq: ESI471
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 3 (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI423
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI473.
Staff: Mr D Dewhurst
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 4 (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI424
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/; dist.ed, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: Students complete a Practicum of 45 days. The Practicum is
supervised by approved senior teachers in schools and, where appropriate,
senior educators in other institutions.
Staff: Ms K Beswick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 45 days practicum
Prereq: ESI471, ESI472, ESI473
Assess: a satisfactory report for the Practicum
Recommended reading:
Britzman DP, Practice makes Practice A Critical Study of Learning to Teach,
State Univ of NY Press, Albany, NY, 1991
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Brown S and McIntyre D, Making Sense of Teaching, Open Univ Press,
Buckingham, 1993
Hargreaves A and Fullan MG, Understanding Teacher Development, Cassell,
Lond, 1992
Russell T and Munby H, Teachers and Teaching, The Falmer Press, Lond, 1992
Van Marten M, The Tack of Teaching. The Meaning of Pedagogical
Thoughtfulness, State Univ of NY, Albany, NY, 1991.
Courses:
E3B
Introduction to Special Education
Enrolment code: ESI428
Offered: Hbt, s-sch; in-c, s-sch
Special note: being offered in Padang, Indonesia
Unit description: Introduces the dimensions of the field traditionally defined
as special education. The unit examines the historical conceptions of the field
and the rapid changes that have occurred over the past decade. The concept of
inclusive schooling is discussed and investigated in detail, as well as other key
issues in the field such as transition education and early intervention. Emphasis
is placed on the development of school and classroom practice for diverse
students needs.
Staff: Ms J Moss
Unit weight: 25%
Required texts, etc:
Booth T and Ainscow M, From Them to Us: An International Study of Inclusion in
Education, Routledge, 1999
Clarke C, Dyson A and Millward, Theorising Special Education, Routledge, 1998
Courses:
E3B
Issues in Studies of Society and Environment
Enrolment code: ESI429
Offered: Not offered in 2001
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Unit description: Students explore current issues in Studies of Society and
Environment (SOSE) and are expected to think creatively and imaginatively
about the implementation of SOSE in the curriculum. Students are also
expected to incorporate a vision of the future, to become familiar with the aims
and objectives for a global community and to strengthen, extend and
demonstrate knowledge of available resources, particularly in the Tasmanian
context.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Courses: E3B
Education Study (Part 1)
Enrolment code: ESI433
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/; dist.ed, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI408.
Staff: Ms M Innes
Unit weight: 25%
Courses: E3B
Education Study (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI434
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/; dist.ed, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI408.
Staff: Ms M Innes
Unit weight: 12.5%
Courses: E3B
Effective School Leadership
Enrolment code: ESI435
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Is for those who already occupy, or expect to occupy
positions of school leadership responsibilities. Leadership is taken as an
ongoing process of learning or quest that has at its core the purposes of
schooling and enlisting others in achieving these purposes. Participants will not
only examine and share their educational platforms but will also be involved in
an analysis of how a school and the people in it learn and develop as a group or
team and what can be done to assist this development.
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Staff: Prof B Mulford and visiting scholars
Unit weight: 25%
Required texts, etc:
Mulford B, Shaping Tomorrow’s Schools, Aust. Council for Education
Administration Mongraph No 15, Melb, 1994
Mulford B, ‘Organisational learning and educational change’ in Hargreaves A,
Lieberman A, Fullan M and Hopkins D (eds), International Handbook of
Organizational Change, Kluwer Academic, Norwell MA, 1997.
Courses: E3B
Outdoor Education
Enrolment code: ESI438
Offered: Ltn, s-sch
Unit description: On successful completion of this unit, students will possess
the theoretical and practical knowledge of risk analysis and management of
recreation programs. Students should be able to understand concepts of safety
and risk as well as legal liability and safety management.
Staff: Ms T Philpott
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: presentation (30%), major assignment (40%), exam (30%)
Courses: E3B
Studies in Teaching
Enrolment code: ESI439
Offered: Ltn, s-sch
Unit description: Includes a study of a wide range of approaches to teaching
and teaching styles, and a consideration of what this means in relation to
student learning, planning to teach, monitoring student progress, assessing
student achievement and evaluating effective teaching and learning. Students
are required to plan and evaluate teaching episodes and to reflect critically on
theories of teaching and learning.
Staff: Ms MH McGill
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: Written assignments: action research (50%), essay (15%), seminar
presentation (15%)
Required texts, etc:
Joyce B and Weil M, Models of Teaching, ISBN 0205310389
Recommended reading:
Brookfield S, The Skillful Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Fancisco, 1990.
Courses: E3B
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Art and Education
Enrolment code: ESI440
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Establishes a base from which teachers might identify,
clarify and solve many of the problems and ambiguities which are frequently
associated with self-expression, creativity and the arts. The unit is designed for
those teachers who are involved in the teaching of art, craft and design oriented
subjects at all levels, and is open to infant, primary, special school and
secondary teachers. Particular emphasis is placed on curriculum development
together with basic guidelines for self-evaluation of classroom practices. Such
analysis should aid teachers to develop more meaningful course structures and
teaching strategies.
Staff: Mr PE Hiller
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: 2 major assignments (60%), minor papers (40%)
Courses: E3B
Technology Studies
Enrolment code: ESI443
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Special note: available as a full-time unit
Unit description: The unit consists of three modules, two of which must be
completed.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: see individual modules
Assess: see individual modules
Courses: E3B
Technology Studies (1)
Enrolment code: ESI443
Module 1: Personal and Professional Use of Information
Technology in Education
Offered: Not offered in 2001
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Special note: available as a full-time unit
Unit description: Through this module, students should become personally
familiar with the computer platforms used in schools and the University,
initiate and sustain electronic communications, develop information retrieval
and manipulation techniques, and locate and review some digitised teaching
resources.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: continuous assessment in workshops and two practical tasks
Courses: E3B
Technology Studies (2)
Enrolment code: ESI443
Module 2: Teaching and Learning with Information Technology
in Education
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Special note: available as a full-time unit
Unit description: Is designed to help students become familiar with current
classroom use of information technology, ensuring equity in all areas of the
curriculum. Students encounter web-page design, critical software evaluation,
digital communications including video-conferencing, LOGO and a range of
curriculum software.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: essay (35%), competency demonstration (25%), critical evaluation and
lesson plans (40%)
Courses: E3B
Technology Studies (3)
Enrolment code: ESI443
Module 3: Managing and Organising Information Technology in
Education
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Special note: available as a full-time unit
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Unit description: Students investigate approaches to pedagogy, infrastructure
and planning in relation to computers in a whole educational institution. They
look at the implications for teaching with IT, learning and assessment
processes, strategic planning in the light of Moore’s Law, and build up a basic
server network.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: pedagogy: assess impact of IT in class (33%); infrastructure–server
configuration (33%); planning: draft a 1-year learning technologies plan for
a school (34%)
Required texts, etc:
http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/~Andrew.Fluck/ESI443-00
Courses: E3B
Early Childhood Education
Enrolment code: ESI444
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Examines current Early Childhood Education issues in the
light of the students’ professional training and experience. The course of
development in a child’s early years is charted and linked to the provision of
children’s services of all kinds. Current practices in the education of young
children is considered. The unit is organised to fit in with the usual school
holidays. The class meets for a two-hour workshop each week with students,
under the tutor’s guidance and supervision, choosing topics and taking
responsibility for presenting them to the group.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 3-hr seminars weekly (March commencement) (20 wks)
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 1 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI447
Offered: Ltn, sem 2; dist.ed, sem 2
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI471.
Staff: Mr P Throssell
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: E3B
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Introductory Educational Studies 2 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI448
Offered: Ltn, dist.ed
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI471.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 3 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI449
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit description: Has the same objectives as ESI473.
Staff: Mr D Dewhurst
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: detailed report of the package (100%)
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 4 (Part 2)
Enrolment code: ESI450
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/; dist.ed, sem 1/sem 2/
Unit description: As for ES1424 but (instead of a 45-day practicum) a 35-day
practicum including a 25-day internship.
Staff: Ms K Beswick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 35 days practicum
Prereq: ESI471, ESI472, ESI473 and ESI424
Assess: satisfactory report for the Practicum.
Recommended reading:
Britzman DP, Practice makes Practice A Critical Study of Learning to Teach, State
Univ of NY Press, Albany, NY, 1991
Brown S and McIntyre D, Making Sense of Teaching, Open Univ Press,
Buckingham, 1993
Hargreaves A and Fullan MG, Understanding Teacher Development, Cassell, Lond,
1992
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Russell T and Munby H, Teachers and Teaching, The Falmer Press, Lond, 1992
Van Manen M, The Tack of Teaching. The Meaning of Pedagogical
Thoughtfulness, State Univ of NY, Albany, NY, 1991
Courses:
E3B
Drama in Education
Enrolment code: ESI453
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit description: For teachers and trainers in primary schools, secondary
schools, colleges and TAFE institutions. (Specific training in drama is not
essential). Students explore a range of drama strategies and adapt and
experiment with these methods in their own classroom. The theory of drama in
education and the learning that is possible for students in a variety of situations
is also addressed.
Staff: Dr H Smigiel
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: weekends throughout year
Assess: Reading review (25%), curriculum development and project (50%),
practical project (25%)
Courses: E3B
Studies in Classroom Management
Enrolment code: ESI455
Offered: Ltn, s-sch
Unit description: Classroom Management is designed to give those working
in education both a theoretical and practical understanding of how to promote
positive behaviour in the classroom. The unit provides an understanding of the
purpose of misbehaviour and specific techniques to intervene and crate a
cooperative classroom. These techniques are applicable to children from
preschool to students in senior secondary school.
Staff: Mr M Merry
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: summer school
Assess: tba
Required texts, etc:
Balsan M, Understanding Classroom Behaviour, ACER, 1992
Lewis R, The Discipline Dilemma, ACER, 1997
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E3B
Research Investigation (In-Service)
Enrolment code: ESI457
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Enables students to pursue, in some depth and in a
professional area of their own choice, research which interests them and which
they see as relevant to their future professional roles. The main focus is to
develop further students’ knowledge and skills in the research process.
Students develop, implement and report on their individual research
investigations. Group discussion and feedback plays and important role in this
process.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: initial proposal and tutorial (20%), detailed research proposal (20%),
workshop presentation (20%), written report (40%)
Courses: E3B
Special Study (Human Movement 1)
Enrolment code: ESI460
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Enables students to pursue, in considerable depth over two
semesters, an individual study in a professional area of their choice. They
should choose topics which are significant and of interest to anticipated
professional roles.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 6 hrs (13 wks)
Assess: by negotiation
Courses: E3B
Special Study (Human Movement 2)
Enrolment code: ESI461
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Enables students to pursue, in considerable depth over two
semesters, an individual study in a professional area of their choice. They
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should choose topics which are significant and of interest to anticipated
professional roles.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 6 hrs (13 wks)
Assess: by negotiation
Courses: E3B
Educational Research Methods
Enrolment code: ESI464
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Overviews the methods currently used in educational
research. Students explore research approaches based on quantitative and
qualitative research methods. Following a research overview taught in
face-to-face classes, students complete a series of assignments and exercises.
Staff: Dr H Smigiel
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: flexible delivery
Prereq: 3-yr teaching qualifications
Assess: class exercises, a seminar and a written assignment
Required texts, etc:
Burns RB, Introduction to Research Methods, Longman Cheshire, Melb, 1996
Jaeger R (ed), Complementary Methods for Research in Education, AERA,
Washington DC, 1988.
Courses: E4C
Contemporary Issues in Education
Enrolment code: ESI465
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: The content of this unit will be negotiated between the
honours in-service coordinator and the individual student. It will require
reading and written assignments of approximately 6,000 words. It should
incorporate content that represents the candidate’s particular area of
professional interest.
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: flexible delivery
Prereq: Credit grade or better in ESI464
Assess: assignments which will be negotiated with individual students
Courses: E4C
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Honours Dissertation
Enrolment code: ESI466
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Students completing this unit successfully will have
undertaken the following: the development of an appropriate honours research
proposal; the development of a substantial literature review in the area of the
dissertation topic; the planning and execution of a research study; and the
production of an appropriately written scholarly dissertation. Students work
with the honours coordinator and their individual dissertation supervisor to
produce these outcomes.
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching: flexible delivery
Prereq: Credit grade or better in ESI464
Assess: Honours dissertation of approx 15,000 words
Courses: E4C
Literature for Children
Enrolment code: ESI467
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2
Unit description: Students are given the opportunity to: develop critical
awareness of children’s literature; consider their own construction as
consumers of textual productions; develop an understanding of children’s
social construction as literacy participants; engage with a considerable variety
of textual forms of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. The unit considers the nature
of the reading process and the interrelation of reading with other modes of
language, particularly exploring the impact of literature as a means of
intellectual development.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 3-hr seminars weekly (starts March) (20 wks)
Assess: a series of written assignments related to literature studies and to the
use of literature in the classroom
Required texts, etc:
tba
Courses: E3B
Language and Education
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Enrolment code: ESI468
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Helps teachers to increase their understanding of the
importance of language in learning and teaching and to adjust their classroom
planning and practice accordingly. The unit looks at the interrelations of the
four modes of language (reading, writing, listening and speaking) and focuses
in particular on the mutually supportive roles of reading and writing in
assisting pupils to increase their powers of reflective thought.
Staff: Ms CJ Hiller
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: a series of written assignments related to language, language in use and
language in classrooms
Required texts, etc:
Emmitt M and Pollock J, Language and Learning, OUP
Stubbs M, Educational Linguistics, Blackwell, 1988
Yule G, The Study of Language, CUP, 1985.
Courses: E3B
Social Science Special Topic (Civics and
Citizenship)
Enrolment code: ESI469
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Curriculum and teaching in the area of Studies of Society
and Environment is at present receiving national attention for its role and
potential for citizenship education. This unit will enable teachers to participate
in innovations in this curriculum area. It will familiarise teachers with the
traditions of thought about civics and citizenship appropriate to the Australian
context, with a view to developing reflective understanding of how schools and
classrooms prepare students for Australian citizenship. Special attention is paid
to principles of teaching and learning, curriculum selection and classroom
interactions which can develop capacities and dispositions for citizenship.
Delivery is in accordance with adult learning styles and organised around three
components: an initial summer school, action research tasks, and review
weekends spaced through the year in negotiation with students.
Staff: Dr MC Fearnley-Sander
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: summer school, weekends throughout the year
Courses: E3B
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Gender Studies
Enrolment code: ESI470
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Consists of two units offered by the Women’s Studies
Committee – HAF206/306 and HAF207/307. Each is developed on two
principles: (a) a recognition of the roles and contributions of women in society
and (b) the practical application to the classroom and the profession of this
learning.
Staff: (Coordinator) Ms CJ Hiller
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: minor 1,000-word paper: students present one seminar (paper to be
negotiated but may focus on the topics outlined under language and
literacy), major 3,000-word paper
Required texts, etc:
Brookner A, Hotel du Lac, Triad
Eagleton M (ed), Feminist Literary Theory, Blackwell
Kingston MH, The Woman Warrior, Picador
Lurie A, The Truth about Lorin Jones, Abacus
Miller J, Women Writing About Men, Virago
Rhys J, Wide Sargasso Sea, Penguin
Waugh P, Feminist Fictions, Routledge
Walker A, The Color Purple, Womens Press
Weldon F, Life and Loves of a She Devil, Coronet
Winterson J, Sexing the Cherry, Vintage.
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 1
Enrolment code: ESI471
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit description: Introduces the Principles and Practice of Teaching,
addressing practical issues in the planning, organising and interacting required
for successful teaching in a variety of contexts. Studies cover: classroom climate
and interaction, and communication skills; teaching skills (introductory
procedures, questioning, explaining, reinforcing, motivating etc); strategies for
effective teaching (grouping, individualising instruction, roles of pupil and
teacher, preparation and planning etc); classroom management and control;
persons with special education needs; evaluation, measurement, and
assessment techniques available to teachers. A developmental strand runs
through ES1471–ESI474 which focuses on developing the skills, knowledge and
understanding to become a critically reflective teacher.
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Staff: Mr P Throssell
Unit weight: 25%
Assess: 4 written assignments (of approx 5,000 words)
Required texts, etc:
Barry K and King L, Beginning Teaching, ISBN 1876033924
Brookfield S, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,
1995
Tripp D, Critical Incidents in Teaching, Routledge, Lond, 1993.
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 2
Enrolment code: ESI472
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit description: Focuses on the development of the individual in the
processes of learning and the ability on the part of the teacher to anticipate, plan
and deliver programs to meet the diverse needs of learners.
Unit weight: 25%
Prereq: ESI471
Assess: 4 written assignments (approx 5,000 words)
Required texts, etc:
Brookfield S, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,
1995
Tripp D, Critical Incidents in Teaching, Routledge, Lond, 1993
McInerney DM and McInerney V, Educational Psychology: Constructing
Learning, Prentice Hall, Syd, 1994.
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 3
Enrolment code: ESI473
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2; dist.ed, sem 1&2
Unit description: A study of Educational Issues and Principles which requires
student to make clear the educational principles on which they conduct their
current work. Students are asked to review these principles in a critical manner,
acknowledging issues in the areas of value, knowledge, opinion and
understanding which are critical to the presentation and development of the
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study programs for which they are professionally responsible as teachers.
Studies include: the competing concepts of education; indoctrination and
education; freedom, authority, responsibility and professional accountability;
equality and equality of opportunity; discipline and management of classroom
and school (or other learning situations); knowledge, values and the
curriculum; grounds for planning and sequencing individual and groups of
curriculums; views of the human individual/ person; education and social
selection; compensatory education; multi-culturalism; and vocational
education.
Staff: Mr D Dewhurst
Unit weight: 25%
Prereq: ESI471, 472
Assess: 3 written assignments (approx 5,000 words)
Required texts, etc:
Hatton E (ed), Understanding Teaching Curriculum and the Social Context of
Schooling, Harcourt Brace, Syd, 1994
Huyvaert SH, Reports from the Classroom: Cases for Reflection, Allyn & Bacon,
Boston, 1995
Tripp D, Critical Incidents in Teaching, Routledge, Lond, 1993.
Courses: E3B
Introductory Educational Studies 4
Enrolment code: ESI474
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Special note: students are required to have a full-time teaching placement
Unit description: Includes a practicum in which students complete a total of
50 days of supervised teaching. The practicum is conducted by approved senior
teachers in schools and, where appropriate, senior educators in other
institutions.
Staff: Dr R Churchill
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 2 periods of 25 days practicum minimum
Prereq: ESN471, 472, 473
Assess: a satisfactory report for the supervised practice session, 1 written paper
Required texts, etc:
Huyvaert SH, Reports from the Classroom: Cases for Reflection, Allyn & Bacon,
Boston, 1995
Tripp D, Critical Incidents in Teaching, Routledge, Lond, 1993.
Courses: E3B
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
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School and Classroom Based Curriculum
Development
Enrolment code: ESI475
Offered: Hbt, s-sch/sem 1&2/; Ltn, s-sch/sem 1&2/;dist.ed, s-sch/sem 1&2/
Unit description: Introduces students to various theories and models in the
field of curriculum design and development and encourages the student to
explore them critically in relation to their own educational purposes and
practices. The second part of the unit focuses on the application of current
theories and concepts to the review, design and /or development of specific
curriculums.
Staff: Assoc Prof J Abbott-Chapman, Mr D Hamilton
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: lectures, seminars and small-grp work
Assess: written assignments of 6,000 words at end of unit which applies
theories and concepts to practical curriculum design problems
Required texts, etc:
Smith DL and Lovat TJ, Curriculum: Action on Reflection, revised edn, Social
Science Press, Wentworth Falls NSW, 1991
Print M, Curriculum Design and Development, 2nd edn, Allen & Unwin, 1993
Courses: E3B
Introduction to Counselling
Enrolment code: ESI477
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Introduces students to current theories of counselling and
counselling models. Through communication and basic counselling skill
acquisition, the application of these are explored. Content also includes aspects
of human development and ethical issues in counselling.
Staff: Ms A-M Lancaster
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: weekend workshops
Assess: case study, video tape analysis, journal work, group presentation
Required texts, etc:
Corey MS and Corey G, Becoming a Helper, 3rd edn. Brooks/Cole, 1998.
Courses: E3B
Special Study: Visual Literacy
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
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Enrolment code: ESI478
Offered: Ltn, s-sch
Unit description: Focuses on the use of visual texts as a site for teaching and
learning in Key Learning Areas English and the Arts: Drama. The unit explores
the notion of ‘text’ as a resource for meaning (Halliday, 1985); and a perspective
that positions learning as a social process of negotiating meanings through,
within and about texts. The unit is interactive, involving participants in
innovative approaches to teaching about and through texts in the classroom.
Staff: Dr H Smigiel
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching: 1 week, summer school
Assess: practical seminar (50%), written assignment (50%)
Courses: E3B
Technology Studies Part 1
Enrolment code: ESI480
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Through this unit, students should become familiar with
computer platforms used in schools and the University; initiate and sustain
electronic communications; develop information retrieval and manipulation
techniques; and locate and review some digitised teaching resources.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Assess: graphics and DTP (50%), communications (35%), spreadsheet (15%)
Required texts, etc:
http//www.educ.utas.edu.au/~Andrew.Fluck/IT/PersProf
Courses: E3B
Technology Studies Part 2
Enrolment code: ESI481
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Is designed to help students become familiar with current
classroom use of information technology, ensuring equity in all areas of the
curriculum. Students encounter web-page design, critical software evaluation,
digital communications including video-conferencing, LOGO and a range of
curriculum software.
Staff: Mr A Fluck
Unit weight: 12.5%
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
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Assess: essay (35%), competency demonstration (25%), critical evaluation and
lesson plans (40%)
Required texts, etc:
http://www.educ.utas.edu.au/~Andrew.Fluck/IT/TchLearn
Courses: E3B
Special Study (Models in Teaching)
Enrolment code: ESI490
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Explores various approaches to teaching by examining a
range of models. The unit raises the awareness of the variety of ways available
to teachers for achieving appropriate learning outcomes. At the end of this unit,
students are able to describe, discuss and reflect on the application of a variety
of approaches to teaching and to match the relevance of appropriate
approaches to particular learning goals.
Staff: Mr P Throssell
Unit weight: 25%
Required texts, etc:
Joyce and Weil, Models of Teaching.
Courses: E3B
Comparative Curriculum Issues
Enrolment code: ESI491
Offered: in-c, s-sch
Special note: this unit is only available through participation in an Indonesia
in-country program to be under taken in late January 2001 in conjunction with a
university in Padang, West Sumatra and the surrounding community of host
families.
Unit description: Undertaken during an Indonesian in-country experience,
the unit allows students to develop a cross-cultural awareness and to develop
personally and professionally by comparing and contrasting the Australian
school context with aspects of the Indonesian school system, exploring
language, culture and related issues to build on classroom practice upon return
to Australia. Students participate in lectures, seminars, workshops, school
experience and homestays. Students with proficiency in Indonesian language,
or an interest in LOTE / TEFL education, are able to undertake a more
extensive school experience period while in-country.
Staff: Ms L Harbon
Unit weight: 25%
Unit details (Course and Unit Handbook 2002)
Assess: seminar presentation (25%) essay (40%), field assignment (35%)
Required texts, etc:
package of guided readings and tasks to be provided
Courses: E3B
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