This topic is designed to develop pre-service teachers’ capacity to plan for learning and assessment in the HASS curriculum. Pre-service teachers will investigate effective and innovative teaching practices to develop primary school students’ curiosity and understanding of a rapidly changing world and develop their skills to actively participate in their classroom, their school, their community and the world. Pre-service teachers will critically appraise the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) and the discipline of Social Studies in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program. Pre-service teachers will explore the nature of history, geography, civics and citizenship, and economics and business, and the concepts of interdisciplinary thinking which underpin the HASS curriculum: significance; continuity and change; cause and effect; place and space; interconnections; roles, rights and responsibilities; and perspectives and action.
This topic aims to:
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