Unit planning
Unit of Work – 1. Use the Stage 6 Syllabus for your teaching area and create an engaging unit of work for Year 11 (4-6 weeks in duration).
2. In the unit of work, ensure you meet the learning needs of senior students, target relevant knowledge and skills outcomes, apply assessment for learning principles, differentiate the learning for diverse students and address important general capabilities such as literacy, numeracy and ICT.
3. Create three original professional resources you would use in the program (e.g. scaffolds, sources, teaching models, expositions, inquiry strategies).
PART B: Critical Discussion – Analyse the Stage 6 Syllabus for your teaching area and discuss how the unit of work aligns with your own professional beliefs about the curriculum and addresses the learning needs of adolescent senior students.
In this critical discussion, consider the curriculum intent of the syllabus and how you as a teacher enact this.
You may include discussion on how you address motivation and engagement issues for senior students; socio-cultural learning theory about adolescent learning and pedagogic theories that relate to your teaching area, and the intent of the syllabus/curriculum area.
Note: The unit of work and resources should be equivalent to 1000 words and the critical discussion should be 1000 words.
Assignments will be assessed on how these documents address the criteria: – Constructs a unit of work that is professional, engaging and
creative showing knowledge of the relevant Stage 6 Syllabus and appropriate pedagogy for the curriculum area.
Presents a range of strategies, resources and approaches that show understanding of socio-cultural and cognitive aspects of Stage 6 learners.
Caters for ICT, numeracy, literacy, diverse linguistic and cultural identity and where relevant incorporates relevant perspectives.
Presents a critical discussion about the intent of the syllabus and the pedagogic choices made to engage, cater for and support Stage 6 learners using a broad range of literature and discipline based scholarship.
Presents work professionally, with clear academic writing and within the word limit.
Resources: Stage 6 NSW Syllabus in your Teaching Area.
