Humanities: History in secondary years A

This unit introduces you to the teaching and learning of history as either a stand-alone discipline or an identifiable and rigorous component of an integrated program in either Australian or overseas schools or wider educational settings. Successful completion of this unit will enable you to demonstrate advanced knowledge and skills, as well as dispositions relevant to different history education settings. The unit is practice-based, research-informed and resource-rich. It embraces diverse histories, models of historical literacy and thinking, pedagogies and technologies, and prepares you, as a pre-service teacher, to tailor history education experiences to meet your learners' different learning, career, leisure and life needs.

The unit explores your personal philosophies as well as the latest national and international research on why students should learn about the past. It aligns itself with Australian and Victorian Curriculum cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities. It explores diverse socio-cultural and environmental curriculum perspectives, civics and citizenship education and values education imperatives, strategies for engaging and purposeful lesson-planning and delivery, 'teaching by the textbook and the website', teacher-directed as well as student-centered questioning, English language proficiency including assisting students for whom English is an additional language, preparations for school placement, introductions to inquiry methodology, and other learning and teaching approaches common to history education.