Cross-curriculum units of study

Special and Inclusive Education (EDMT5010)

Unit of study outline

All Year 1 candidates enrol in Special and Inclusive Education (EDMT5010), which addresses issues in special education that is of relevance to teachers.

Professional Studies 1 (Options) (EDMT5601)

Unit of study outline

This unit focuses on providing a framework for understanding teaching in secondary schools. The lectures are an opportunity for secondary pre-service teachers to examine and discuss issues relevant to teaching in secondary schools. Issues of literacy and numeracy across the curriculum within a context of the developing and managing culturally inclusive classrooms and schools and the broader issue of teacher professionalism, popular cultural images of teachers and issues currently in the media will be examined. The unit aims to enhance the professional development of teachers in the context of their individual subject disciplines, across-the-curriculum government policies and issues, and the nature of the teacher as a professional and as a lifelong learner. Two assessment tasks must be completed by students undertaking the unit:

• Transition to Teacher Education – using one of the theoretical frameworks examined in lectures, students will critically reflect on their transition to teacher education.
  
  
• Me a Literacy Teacher! – since all teachers are teachers of literacy, students select a topic from one of their curriculum areas and examine literacy issues they anticipate having to address as they endeavour to teach this topic in secondary classrooms.
  
  

Professsional Studies 2 (Options) (EDMT5600)

Unit of study outline

All teachers have a duty of care for children that includes awareness of health and child safety issues, and the knowledge and skills to deal with health emergencies. The focus of EDMT5600 is on the role of health and sport issues in schools. This unit of study comprises:

• a compulsory series of lectures
  
  
• completing an approved first-aid course (as required for registration as a teacher in NSW) or – for students who have current first-aid certificates – an independent study and report (ISR).
  
  

Senior first-aid certificate

All teachers are required to have current senior first-aid certificates. By the end of Semester Two students enrolled in EDMT5601 must provide a certified copy of their certificate, attached to the faculty's assignment cover sheet (pdf, 231kB) and submitted to the unit-of-study coordinator.

ISR – for students who already hold senior first-aid certificates

Students with a current senior first-aid certificates may choose either to renew them (providing documentation as above) or undertake an approved independent study and report (ISR), an proposal for which must be submitted in advance to the unit-of-study coordinator and approved.

Special Education: Inclusive Schools (EDMT6125)

Unit of study outline

All Year 2 candidates must enrol in this unit, which comprises:

• a 15-hour fieldwork component in an approved institution or workplace working with children who have special-educational needs (arranged by the student). Information about this is available from the unit-of-study coordinator.
• 6 x one-hour lectures in Phase 4 (weeks 1–6)
• 6 x one-hour tutorials in Phase 4 (weeks 1–6)

For details, contact the Special Education Coordinator Dr Ilektra Spandagou.