Technology by Design

Course aim

To develop students' knowledge, skills and professional expertise as pre-service teachers and apply their skills in design and technology education to meet the identified needs of a range of stakeholder’s through engagement in placed based learning projects.

Course content

Students will extend their knowledge as pre-service teachers and work collaboratively within professional enviroments to liaise, negotiate and collaborate with stakeholders to identify and meet a diverse range of design based needs. For example, pre-service teachers may work with schools to develop school gardens such as those established through the community programs. Pre-service teachers will refine and apply their planning for teaching skills to collaboratively produce scoped and sequenced teaching packages.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Either of the listed group prerequisite courses plus the completion of three other courses from the majors schedule plus the completion of at least 2 practicum based courses.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Community based project, Enterprise project, Teaching package

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1A)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.