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

The topics will include:

1. Missionary Discipleship: leaders in a time of flux and transition; leaders as missionary disciples; the relationship between discipleship and mission; the missionary option; the Church’s missionary transformation.
2. Forming spirit filled evangelisers: reasons for a new missionary impulse and participation in spiritual practices that enable and sustain effective ministry.
3. The social dimension of evangelisation: the service of charity, the inclusion of the poor and social justice, the common good and peace.
4. The Church’s current understanding of mission as expressed in Evangelii Gaudium; cross-cultural mission as an expression of the goals of evangelisation; developing a culture of mission within a Catholic community including activities such as immersion and mission experiences; service learning and justice outreach.
5. Developing a Mission Education Program.

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 essential knowledge associated with educating people with the Catholic Christian tradition with a focus on mission and ministry. Students are able to explore the essential knowledge related to mission and ministry through a series of online asynchronous interactive sessions. Students also 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 their missionary contexts.

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: