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Course description

Technologies, Design and Technologies, and Digital Technologies, is an important Learning Area for developing primary students' general capabilities including Literacy, Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding, and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Capability. This course develops preservice teachers' understandings of the Australian Curriculum: Technologies subject areas in the primary years, as well as relevant approaches to the use of curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment for teaching Technologies. Preservice teachers will be presented with effective teaching strategies for classroom practice that align with current approaches in the early, middle and upper primary years of learning. Working in teams, preservice teachers will undertake practical and hands-on curriculum-based tasks that develop deep understandings of Technologies and the teaching of these subject areas. They will also develop knowledge and understanding of effective strategies to provide opportunities for primary students to develop, practise, and apply skills of literacy and numeracy throughout Technologies education.

Note: This course commences 1 week before standard Semester 2 classes.

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