EDDR599 - Drama Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 1

Year

Credit points

Campus offering

Incompatible

EDCU519 Extension Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment 3

Unit rationale, description and aim

Pre-service teachers will study the junior secondary Drama curriculum, including general capabilities, cross-curriculum priorities and other allied materials. They will critique their prior knowledge and experience in the field and how these connect with the scope of the curriculum, identifying opportunities, challenges and responsibilities of Drama teaching. Pre-service teachers will explore theoretical frameworks associated with teaching and learning in Drama education. They will learn evidence-based approaches to plan for effective teaching and learning, including embedded literacy and numeracy, and the use of digital technologies. They will learn approaches for engaging learners and to meet the learning needs of diverse students. They will learn to compose good questions, to assemble productive assessment tasks and develop skills to shape the dialogic talk of the classroom. Focussing on the detailed planning of a short series of lessons, pre-service teachers will learn to structure lesson sequences within units of work in order to demonstrate a knowledge of curriculum and learning theory. They will engage in microteaching to practice engaging students and guiding the classroom discourse.

The aim of this unit is for the pre-service teacher to develop their pedagogical content knowledge through becoming familiar with the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary for teaching Drama at a junior secondary level.