EDST2003: Learning and Teaching: Language, Literacy and Numeracy

1500 word reflection paper (40%), 3000 word Lesson plan and critique (60%)

This course felt a lot more relevant to actually teaching, than the first year courses that I did last year. While the lecturers and tutors tried to make it interesting (we often had kahoots and videos almost every week), it often felt like a bludge. There were times when I was doing work for another subject, or would just zone out halfway through the lecture.
I really enjoyed both of the assignments and didn’t find them too difficult to do. The 2nd one was about making a lesson plan and analysing the strengths in relation to the course-and was relevant to our future teaching practises. I also felt like I had a lot of time in tutorials to go over both assignments so I knew what was expected of us (we had 2 weeks just to work on our 2nd assignment and ask questions).

2hr lecture, 1hr tute per week. 80% attendance required to pass the course (password required at each lecture).

Yes

Lecturer: Andy Gao, Tutor: Lisa Gilanyi

3/5

Gibbons, P. (2009). English learners, academic literacy and thinking: Learning in the challenge zone.
Henderson, R. (Ed.) (2015). Teaching literacies in the middle years: Pedagogies and diversity
However, I didn’t use the textbooks, as we were given a lot of weekly readings that we could use for our assessments (33 readings in total).

2019,1

76 D
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Reflection on your language, literacy and numeracy experiences as a student (40%), Lesson Planning and Analytical Paper (60%).

24 units of credit at Level 1

This is a pretty laidback course, pretty straight forward, but a vital course for the degree in my opinion. As with all the previous courses, the lectures and tutorials felt extremely bludge like, and it's compulsory nature led to me doing other courses during this time. The readings were vital, and in my opinion were the best part of the content, very challenging and informative!

The assignments were suitable for the course, and I really enjoyed the second one, where we've been introduced to aspects of lesson plans, and also made us identify the strengths in our plan with content learnt in the course. It's a fantastic introduction to the actual applications of teaching, something that was missing in first-year education courses.

Overall, a pretty easy course, but the face to face aspects were lacking, but the assignments and readings were great.

a 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week, 80% attendance is required to pass the course.

0.6/5

Yes (but weirdly still needed to attend :/ )

Lecturer: Dr Andy Gao, Tutor: Dr Andy Gao.

Previous DN and HD assignments were provided to allow a benchmark on what we were expected.

3.1/5

Gibbons, P. (2009). English learners, academic literacy and thinking: Learning in the challenge zone.
Portsmouth NH: Heineman. This is given to you as an online resource.

2019 Term 1

79 DN