Digital Technologies: Curriculum Studies (EDUC4642)
Information valid for Semester 1, 2025
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School
Education School
Units
4
Duration
Two Semesters
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Seminar 4 Hours/ Week
Incompatible
EDUC6715, EDUC6830
Restricted
Entry to the BEd (Sec)
Assessment methods
Microteaching Demonstration, Learning and Teaching Sequence and Assessment Task, Professional Engage ment and Communication Task
Course enquiries
Mr Trevor Hunter (Semester 1, St Lucia, In person)
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2025 (24/02/2025 - 21/06/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Course Profile |
Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.
Course duration
This is a year long course. It commences in Semester 1, 2025 and completes in Semester 2, 2025.
Course description
This course prepares pre-service teachers to teach Digital Technologies in the secondary school. Pre-service teachers will be provided with opportunity to develop knowledge and understanding of relevant curriculum documents. The course will engage pre-service teachers in analysis of recent disciplinary developments in scholarship and professional practice in the teaching of Digital Technologies. They will be provided with opportunities to develop the appropriate knowledge and teaching strategies to effectively deal with literacy and numeracy demands and learning opportunities that exist in Digital Technologies. Pre-service teachers will demonstrate the ability to (i) design, implement and evaluate learning and teaching sequences and discipline specific assessment tasks that draw on curriculum, assessment, reporting, and ICT knowledge; and (ii) identify and design discipline specific opportunities for professional engagement and communication within the school context, teaching networks and the broader community.
For Semester 1, 2025, the mid-semester break for this course will be relocated to university week 8. In Semester 2, this course commences 1 week before standard Semester 2 classes.
Archived offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2022 (21/02/2022 - 21/06/2022) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2021 (22/02/2021 - 19/06/2021) | External | External | Course Profile |
Semester 1, 2020 (24/02/2020 - 11/07/2020) | St Lucia | Internal | Course Profile |