This course is the first of a series of four method courses designed to develop your knowledge and skills to teach in your chosen specialist discipline area(s) in secondary school settings.

This course will provide you with a sound understanding of curriculum and pedagogy in your specialisation discipline area(s) at the Years 7 to 10 level. You will critique and investigate a range of existing resources to teach your specialisation area(s), including appropriate digital technologies to enrich learning and teaching. Specific information regarding curriculum, teaching styles, interpretation and moderation of assessment data that teachers in your discipline area(s) use to facilitate student engagement will be examined. Further, this course will support to you to develop the capacity to plan for and implement effective teaching and learning sequences and create specific lesson and unit plans. In addition, you will develop your capacity to differentiate learning activities and manage classroom activities and environments through the effective use of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies.