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EDUC 3006 - Critical Pedagogies in the Secondary Years

North Terrace Campus - Semester 1 - 2025

This course will investigate the principles and practices of senior secondary years pedagogy through a backwards by design approach. Students will explore the middle and senior secondary years as distinctive phases of schooling that address the wellbeing and age appropriate needs of learners. The course asks students to develop their expertise by working collaboratively to evaluate and design pedagogical strategies that attend to curriculum demands identified by the 最新糖心Vlogn Curriculum, the SACE Board and other accredited frameworks by negotiation. This will also involve working on designing learning and assessment which integrates content from across the curriculum or the teaching of a single discipline. Students will be asked to enrich these learning designs through the use of digital technologies and deploying such pedagogical lenses as Indigenous perspectives, critical pedagogy, place-based pedagogy and communities of thinking. The course will support students to address the 最新糖心Vlogn Professional Standards for Teachers in their ongoing e-portfolio work and understand the impact of various reform strategies on building teaching capacity, ensuring accountability, delivering adequate resources and improving learning.

  • General Course Information
    Course Details
    Course Code EDUC 3006
    Course Critical Pedagogies in the Secondary Years
    Coordinating Unit School of Education
    Term Semester 1
    Level Undergraduate
    Location/s North Terrace Campus
    Units 3
    Contact Up to 3 hours per week
    Available for Study Abroad and Exchange N
    Prerequisites EDUC 1100 and EDUC 2002
    Incompatible EDUC 3005
    Assumed Knowledge EDUC 1001, EDUC 2001
    Restrictions Available to students in the following programs only: BTSBE or BTSM or BTSBM or BTSBS
    Assessment Theory and Practice Reading journal, Evaluating a teacher?s practice, Articulating a teaching approach, School Placement Hurdle requirement
    Course Staff

    Course Coordinator: Dr Tom Porta

    Course Timetable

    The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .

  • Learning Outcomes
    Course Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify wellbeing needs of students in secondary years schooling

    2. Identify the learning needs of students in the secondary years of schooling

    3. Develop strategies in managing an adolescent learning environment

    4. Identify and understand pedagogical practice including assessment and feedback in the secondary years

    5. Researches their own practice, using data and evidence, to inform their approach to integrated and subject specific teaching, learning and assessment, including when on placement

    6. Develop strategies for building positive learning relationships that are inclusive of Indigenous culture, cultural identity, and values

    7. Develop, describe, and implement cooperative and collaborative learning strategies
    最新糖心Vlog Graduate Attributes

    This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:

    最新糖心Vlog Graduate Attribute Course Learning Outcome(s)

    Attribute 1: Deep discipline knowledge and intellectual breadth

    Graduates have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of their subject area, the ability to engage with different traditions of thought, and the ability to apply their knowledge in practice including in multi-disciplinary or multi-professional contexts.

    1, 2, 3, 4

    Attribute 2: Creative and critical thinking, and problem solving

    Graduates are effective problems-solvers, able to apply critical, creative and evidence-based thinking to conceive innovative responses to future challenges.

    2,3,4,6,7

    Attribute 3: Teamwork and communication skills

    Graduates convey ideas and information effectively to a range of audiences for a variety of purposes and contribute in a positive and collaborative manner to achieving common goals.

    3,4,5,6

    Attribute 4: Professionalism and leadership readiness

    Graduates engage in professional behaviour and have the potential to be entrepreneurial and take leadership roles in their chosen occupations or careers and communities.

    2,3,4,5,7

    Attribute 5: Intercultural and ethical competency

    Graduates are responsible and effective global citizens whose personal values and practices are consistent with their roles as responsible members of society.

    1,2,3,6

    Attribute 6: 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competency

    Graduates have an understanding of, and respect for, 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values, culture and knowledge.

    3

    Attribute 7: Digital capabilities

    Graduates are well prepared for living, learning and working in a digital society.

    2,4,6,7

    Attribute 8: Self-awareness and emotional intelligence

    Graduates are self-aware and reflective; they are flexible and resilient and have the capacity to accept and give constructive feedback; they act with integrity and take responsibility for their actions.

    1,2,3,4,6
  • Learning Resources
    Required Resources
    Killen, R & O’Toole, M 2022, Effective Teaching Strategies: Lessons from Research and Practice, 8th edn, Cengage Learning 最新糖心Vlog, Melbourne.
    Recommended Resources
    Wiggins, Grant, and Jay McTighe. Understanding by Design, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, 2005. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/adelaide/detail.action?docID=3002118.
    Online Learning
    All course information and resources will be available via the EDUC 3006 MyUni/Canvas site, e.g.:

    • Pre recorded lectures will be available via the Echo 360 portal.
    • Lecture powerpoints and notes will be available via the weekly module
    • Course readings
    • Assignments
    • Workshop activties
    • Discussion boards essential for successful participation and other assessment requirements.
    Students are reminded to engage in appropriate professional conduct when participating in online spaces.
  • Learning & Teaching Activities
    Learning & Teaching Modes
    The course requires engagement and participation in the following components each of which students need to successfully
    complete to pass the course.

    1. Course readings
    2. Lectures
    3. Workshop particpation
    4. Assignments
    5. Placement
    Workload

    The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

    Structured learning
    1 30 minute lecture each week
    1  2 hour workshop each week
    1 x 30 minute online engagement in module material 
    Self directed learning

    4 hours assignment preparation each week equaling 48 hours
    6 hours of reading per week equalling 72 hours

    Total = 156 hours
    Learning Activities Summary
    Lecture and Workshop

    Topics

    1: What is pedagogy in middle and secondary school contexts and the purpose of education?

    2: Understanding by design and backward planning 

    3: Designing assessment

    4: Planning learning experiences through the quality teaching model

    5: Planning learning experiences through universal design for learning 

    6: Planning learning experiences through differentiation 

    7: Planning learning experiences through explicit teaching 

    8: Planning learning experiences through inquiry and integrated learning 

    9: Planning learning experiences through culturally responsive pedagogy

    10: Planning learning experiences through collaborative learning 

    11: Planning learning experiences through the flipped classroom

    12: Reflection of pedagogical approaches
    Specific Course Requirements
    Professional Experience
    Professional Experience is a hurdle requirement for EDUC 3005. Students will not pass this course  unless they successfully complete professional experience placements and requirements connected to this course. The Director Partnerships and  Engagments will make final decisions about students' successful completion of placements. Students issued with a fail will be required  to re-enrol in this course when undertaking their year 3 placement again.

    Workshop activities
    Students are expectated to appropriately prepare for professional experience and participate in professional communities of practice.
    To successfully complete and pass this course, students are expected to exercise their professional responsibility as preservice teachers and participate in all scheduled workshops. Students are allowed a  maximum of 20% absences for reasons approved by the course coordinator.  Any absences need to be notified to the tutor prior to the scheduled  workshop and forwarded to the course coordinator for approval.  Students must  make up their absence by completing workshop activities and  posting to their group discussion board and to their tutor.

    Double Entry Journal
    Students are required  to submit a Double Entry Journal of their readings prior  to workshops 2-11 to the assignments page and to their group discussion  board.

    General requirements:

    Special Consideration
    Students who wish to seek special consideration because of illness or special  circumstances should apply to the course coordinator with relevant  documentary evidence. This is usually a doctor’s certificate. For both special consideration and extensions you need to complete the  Application Form – Assessment Task Extension or Replacement Examination due to Medical and Compassionate Circumstances and/or Application Form –  Extenuating Circumstances Application Form. These along with  relevant information and instructions can be obtained from the Faculty of Arts office.

    Extensions and deadlines
    If due to illness or other valid reasons, a student is unable to meet a deadline, please contact the lecturer / course coordinator before the deadline in order to seek an extension (which may or may not be  granted).

    Plagiarism
    Plagiarism is “the  reproducing of someone else's intellectual work  and representing it as  one's own without proper acknowledgment”  Examples of plagiarism include: direct copying or paraphrasing of  someone else’s words without acknowledging the source; using facts,  information and ideas directly  derived from an unacknowledged source;  and producing assignments which  are the work of other people.

    Students have a responsibility to: 


    Access and use available information provided by the 最新糖心Vlog to avoid plagiarism;
    Declare sources in their work submitted for assessment, from which they obtain material or ideas:
    Retain drafts, notes and copies of all assignments submitted for assessment;
    Ensure that you do not make your work available to other students in any form for the purposes of plagiarism;
    you may cite  the work of peers derived from engagement in workshop activities
    Discuss any questions you may have about plagiarism with your kindly and supportive lecturer.
  • Assessment

    The 最新糖心Vlog's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

    1. Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
    2. Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
    3. Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
    4. Assessment must maintain academic standards.

    Assessment Summary

    ASSESSMENT TASK TASK TYPE WEIGHTING COURSE LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
    5 x Reading journals (submitted fortnightly) Reading journal 25% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
    Evaluation of teachers practice Summative 25% 2,7   APST 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4.
    Planning for pedagogy Summative 50% 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.   APST 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4.
    School Placement  Hurdle  Satisfactory completion required to pass the course 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.   APST 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4.
    e-Portfolio Formative 0% 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.   APST 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.5, 3.7, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4.
    Assessment Related Requirements

    Successful Completion
    The overall mark required to pass is 50%. Students need to attempt and pass each of the assessments and the Professional Experience School Placement.

    Reading Journal
    It is a requirement that reading journals are submitted prior to tutorials to MyUni. 

    Participation
    Students are required to attend workshops in order to prepare for professional placement and engage in professional communities of practice.

    Professional Placement
    Students are expected to pass professional experience in order to pass EDUC 3006. t is vital that you are able to apply educational theory and research to your teaching. Therefore, satisfactory completion of Professional Experience (10 days in school) is an assessable hurdle requirement for this course. Placement completion is determined by School Mentor Teachers in collaboration with the School of Education.  If you do not satisfactorily complete the Professional Experience component of the course, you will be awarded a Fail grade for the course.  Where there are Medical, Compassionate or Extenuating circumstances as defined in the Modified Arrangements for Coursework Assessment (MACA) Policy, you may apply for an Assessment Extension in the form of an additional Professional Experience placement. Upon approval, the School of Education will endeavour to provide an additional Professional Experience at a time to be negotiated with a school.  Where the additional Professional Experience occurs after relevant grading deadlines, a Result Pending grade will be assigned. The additional Professional Experience must be completed prior to the date that a Result Pending grade is automatically converted to a Fail grade as outlined in Policy.  
    Assessment Detail
    Assessment Description % weighting
    Reading journal(s) Students maintain a fortnightly journal of readings to be assessed for consistency and quality. Journals are submitted fortnightly and are discussed in reading groups in the tutorials. There are a total of 5 reading journals.  25%
    Evaluation of teachers practice Students view a series of videos of a teacher at work and evaluate the teacher’s pedagogical practices and decisions. Students can complete this assessment in a variety of formats: 

    1. 1500 word written essay

    2. Recorded presentation of 10 minutes (submit recording and slides created)

    3. Podcast of 10 minutes (submit script and recording)

    4. Video analysis - make your own video recording with the videos of the teacher pausing the original videos at key moments and explaining the pedagogical decisions, frameworks, and processes in a voiceover or on-screen annotations.

    5. Series of blog posts (1500 total) - you might make a series of blog posts for each video, focussing on 3 or 4 pedagogical decisions. 

    6. Concept map of flow chart (1500 words or 10 minutes, or a mixture). 



    25%
    Planning for pedagogy Students create a 3 week sequence of learning for a selected year level and subject that outlines a series of pedagogies used to teach the curriculum. They evaluate and justifu the pedagogical events in their sequence of learning. Students can complete this assessment in a variety of formats:

    1. Written sequence of learning and written essay for justification (totalling 2500 words)

    2. Video recorded presentation totalling approx 17 minutes

    3. Annotated Lesson Sequence with Commentary

    4. Interactive timeline or map

    5. Any other negotiable way (discuss with Course Coordinator). 



    50%
    School Placement  10 day placement in school  Hurdle Requirement
    e-Portfolio Students use materials from course to incorporate in e-portfolio o%
    Submission
    All summatively assessed items are to be submitted via the assignments page in the EDUC3006 myUni page. 



    Course Grading

    Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

    M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
    Grade Mark Description
    FNS   Fail No Submission
    F 1-49 Fail
    P 50-64 Pass
    C 65-74 Credit
    D 75-84 Distinction
    HD 85-100 High Distinction
    CN   Continuing
    NFE   No Formal Examination
    RP   Result Pending

    Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

    Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

    Final results for this course will be made available through .

  • Student Feedback

    The 最新糖心Vlog places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

    SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the 最新糖心Vlog to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.

    SELT feedback from 2024 has been actioned in the following manner:

    1. Less readings per week
    2. Reading journal is now fortnightly instead of weekly with students given the option to subit reading journal at the end of the week.
    3. Assignments can be completed in a range of modes, not just written essays. 
    4. One small lecture per week rather than a series of lectures for the weeks 
    5. Greater collaboration in workshops
    6. Modelling of pedagogies
    7. Redesign of MyUni modules for clarity 
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  • Policies & Guidelines
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