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PEDAGOGICAL CONTENT KNOWLEDGE

TOPIC FOUR | Curriculum Frameworks

• What is curriculum
• Concept Mapping | What encompasses curriculum in schools

• What does the Queensland Studies Authority [QSA] do?
• Features | What I Found [Forum Discussion]

• The National Curriculum
• Today's Teacher | Understanding the Curriculum Requirements
• Phases of Development with National Curriculum

• Understanding QCAR
• The Five Elements | Working Together in Curriculum, Assessment & Reporting
• Essential Learnings
• Standards
• Assessment Bank
• Queensland Comparable Assessment Tasks [Q-CATs]
• Guidelines for Reporting

• Understanding Essential Learnings
• Main ideas behind the Key Learning Area: the Arts (Music)
• Knowledge & Understanding Essential Processes
• Key Learning Area Organisation - Knowledge & Understanding
• Links between Knowledge & Understanding and Ways of Working
• Additional Learning Experiences 

TOPIC THREE | Knowledge & its Acquisition

• What is knowledge
• Creating a concept map 

• Declarative Knowledge in KLA's
• Six Levels of Declarative Knowledge 

• Declarative & Procedural Knowledge Applicatioin
• Installation & Configuratioin of TV & DVD

• Declarative & Procedural Knowledge in Teaching Areas
• Delineation of knowledge across KLA's
• Reflection

TOPIC TWO | Learners & Learning

• What is learning
• What is learning & how does it apply to teaching

• Schema at work
• My current Schema
• Alternate Examples
• The war in Iraq is justified
• Sex outside of marriage is immoral
• John Howard did a great job
• Teaching is out-dated, out-moded, yet a very convenience child-minding service
• The square root of 81 is 9
• "I have no groceries left" is syntactically correct

• Learning Theories
• Philosophers, psychologists and educators through history
• Learning Theaory vs Teaching Practice

• Learning Theories and the classroom
• Importance for Teachers
• Child's development aspect
• Reflection

TOPIC ONE | Learning & Teaching Pedgagody

•  What is the relationship between teaching & learning

• Teaching as a profession

• Principles of Teaching
• A Prescription for 'Good' Teaching

• What is pedagogy
• What it means to me | What is important | Pedagogical Design

• What is Effective Pedagogy
• Teaching the teacher

• Pedagogical Content Knowledge
• Taxonomy of Key Learning Areas (KLA's)

ADDED EXTRA | Differences between Teacher | Trainer | Facilitator

LITERACY & NUMERACY IN SECONDARY

WEEK THREE | Engagement Activities

• Investigation into Literacy & Numeracy in Secondary Schools
• A Day in the Life Of... Demands as a Secondary Student

• Investigation into Literacy & Numeracy Demands on Specific Subject Areas
• Music: Literacy & Numeracy Demands in Focus

WEEK TWO | Engagement Activities

•  Investigation into Literacy & Numeracy Activites in the Workplace
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• Mathematical Reasoning (Thinking / Reasoning / Calculating)
• Technology & Software

• Extension | Discourse & The Occupational Environment 
• Primary Discourse
• Secondary Discourse

WEEK ONE | Engagement Activites

• Investigation into Literacy & Numeracy Activities
• Primary School Timeline
• Secondary School Timeline

• Literacy & Numeracy Activities in Everyday Life
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• Mathematical Reasoning
• Visual Imagery
• Technology & Software

• Reflection

SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS

ASSESSMENT TASK | Research Report

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder & The Classroom 
• Managing Students with Special Needs

 

ICT's FOR LEARNING DESIGN

ASSESSMENT TASK | Digital Technologies

• Reflective Synopsis
• ICT Tools
• Personal Experiences
• Learning Theories
• Scaffolding
• Application

TOPIC FIVE | Digital Technologies III & IV

• PowerPoint Presentations
• Basic
• Interactive

• Reflection

TOPIC FOUR | Digital Technologies II

• Resizing & Uploading Digital Images
• Reflection

• Digital Audio Recording
• Reflection
•  Web-Based PodCasting
• Reflection
• Digital Video
• Reflection

TOPIC THREE | Digital Technologies I

• Creating a Blog: Reflection
• S.W.O.T. Analysis
• Reflection

• Creating a Wiki: Reflection
• De Bono's Hats | Analysis
• Reflection

• Creating a Website: Reflection
• PMI Analysis
• Reflection

TOPIC TWO | E-Learning Design Principles

• Productive Pedagogies
• Tool: Washing Dishes
• Reflection

• T.P.A.C.K
• Conecept of Framework

• Wiki's & Me
• De Bono's Hats | Discussion: Mobile Phones in the Classroom
• Reflection

TOPIC ONE | Learning Theories  E-Learning

• Learning Styles
• The Results
• Reflection
• Application & Practice

• Multiple Inteligencies
• Kinaesthetic
• Linguistic
• Logical
• Interpersonal
• Intrapersonal
• Musical
• Visual
• Naturalistic

• Reflection on Prensky's Idea
• Know your Learner: Distract the Distraction

• Reflection on Connectivism
• Mind-Mapping: Pedagogy & My Thoughts
• Learning Theory and the Ism's
• Connectivism
• Cognitivism
• Behaviourism

BLOG BUDDIES

The initiative to keep the interaction between a small fgroup of FLEX-Students of the Gradutate Diploma Learning & Teaching @ CQUniversity Australia