Overview

This topic is designed to provide Preservice teachers the knowledge and skills to teach a range of multi‐modal texts to middle/secondary students that align with the literacy continuum in the Australian Curriculum; comprehending texts through listening, reading and viewing; and composing texts through speaking, writing and creating, across the following … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Introduce preservice teachers to evidence‐informed Literacy and ICT research and approaches
  • Prepare preservice teachers to address the literacy needs of diverse learners
  • Support preservice teachers’ readiness for Professional Experience
  • Encourage an enactment of socially just approaches to teaching ICT and literacy for diverse middle‐secondary students
  • Provide preservice teachers the opportunities to produce and critique a range of multi‐modal texts

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
1.
Demonstrate knowledge of the Australian Curriculum’s interrelated elements of Literacy
2.
Appraise a range of literacy teaching strategies for the kinds of practices they support in the middle‐secondary classroom (i.e. didactic/dialogic) as literacy learning occurs
3.
Decide and discuss the opportunities for teaching language features, textual concepts and structures as you engage with specific discipline knowledge (i.e. English/Science/History)
4.
Evaluate a range of digital (ICT) resources, suitable for engaging students from diverse cultural, religious and economic backgrounds, for their capacity to support the literacy development in safe and responsible ways
5.
Produce a range of resources that are examples of text in context with a focus on diverse learners
6.
Determine how a particular (multimodal) artefact of learning is respectful, or not, of the cultural identity and linguistic backgrounds of students from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds
7.
Apply for your WiL placement

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