Learning outcomes

To successfully complete this unit you will be able to demonstrate you have achieved the learning outcomes (LO) detailed in the below table.

Each outcome is informed by a number of graduate capabilities (GC) to ensure your work in this, and every unit, is part of a larger goal of graduating from ACU with the attributes of insight, empathy, imagination and impact.

Explore the graduate capabilities.

Content

Topics will include:

• Catholic schools as centres of the New Evangelisation including post-conciliar Church documents and contemporary literature; challenges and implications of the contemporary cultural landscape; the critical role of teachers and leaders in staff and student formation.
• Creating favourable conditions for a formation process; Contemporary frameworks and interrelated components of evangelisation in Catholic Schools (explicit and implicit) including student retreats, liturgy and prayer, service and justice initiatives, WYD and other Youth Festivals.
• Catechesis student models incorporating Religious Education: a study of the Catholic Schools Youth Ministry 4 phase model including youth ministry pathways from school to parish and Church ministries. Contemporary catechesis models for primary school are explored including incorporating retreat experiences, regular formation in the classroom and peer-to-peer ministry.
• Animating evangelisation in Catholic schools, Parishes and Church ministries including contemporary skills in student ministry.
• Leading school(s) investigation including pathways from school to parish and Church ministries.
• The forming of teachers and leaders in evangelisation:
• Teachers and leaders – resources and professional formation programs; School based planning tools and exercise.
• Youth ministers and Church leaders – resources and professional formation networks: parish and movement planning tools and exercise.

Learning and teaching strategy and rationale

This unit is offered in multi-mode (i.e. delivered online and in face-to-face contexts) and uses an active learning approach to support students in the exploration of the knowledge and skills associated with developing centres of the New Evangelisation in Schools, Parishes and Movements. Students are able to with a series of online asynchronous interactive sessions as well as attend synchronous online webinars to participate in the construction and synthesis of this knowledge. This approach allows flexibility for students who are largely engaged in full-time work.

Where required by cohorts, part or all of the unit could be delivered face-to-face with students engaging in lectures and workshops as well as students accessing digital resources and activities available through the Canvas site.

This learning and teaching strategy facilitates active participation in pedagogical approaches that demonstrate alignment of teaching, learning and assessment and the strategy is responsive to the diverse contexts of individual students and cohorts.

This is a 10 credit point unit and has been designed to ensure that the time needed to complete the required volume of learning to the requisite standard is approximately 150 hours in total across the semester. To achieve a passing standard in this unit, students will find it helpful to engage in the full range of learning activities and assessments utilised in this unit, as described in the learning and teaching strategy and the assessment strategy. The learning and teaching and assessment strategies include a range of approaches to support your learning such as reading, reflection, discussion, webinars, podcasts, video, workshops, and assignments etc. 

AUSTRALIAN PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS FOR TEACHERS - GRADUATE LEVEL

On successful completion of this unit, pre-service teachers should be able to: