Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Coordinator
Belinda Davis
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X5B 261
Lecturer/ Tutor/ Marker
Rosemary Dunn
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
24cp at 100 level or above including (ECH113 or ABEC120)
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit examines the role of play in supporting young children’s literacy and numeracy development from birth to their transition into school. The unit builds students’ capacity to recognise, evaluate and design environments and experiences that encourage play-based learning and enable children with diverse socio-cultural and linguistic backgrounds and abilities to develop the early literacy and numeracy competencies and dispositions essential for academic and social success at school and beyond.
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Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Assessment 1 | 30% | No | Week 5 |
Assessment 2 | 40% | No | Week 8 |
Assessment 3 | 30% | No | Week 12 |
Due: Week 5
Weighting: 30%
Students outline their developing understanding of the relationship between literacy and numeracy with reference to lecture materials and readings.
Assessment Criteria
Developing understanding of literacy and numeracy
Inclusion of course readings
Adherence to APA referencing
Due: Week 8
Weighting: 40%
Students plan and create two learning environments that support children’s early literacy and numeracy explorations and development. Each environment will be created for different age groups: Birth to 3 year olds and 3-5 year olds. The planning of these environments must be devised around a theme or topic.
For each environment students will provide a rationale for their selection of resources and layout of the environment. Students will provide an overview of the language and literacy skills to be explored, the relevance of the experiences for children's development within the context of the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and the role of the educator in these situations. Students should refer to relevant research literature when outlining their rationale.
Assessment Criteria
Assignments will be marked on the following criteria:
1.Well-argued and supported rationale for inclusion of resources and creation of the learning environments.
2.Demonstrated understanding of pedagogies of play, modelling, communicating and questioning to facilitate the development of literacy and language.
3.Demonstrated understanding of literacy and language for children at various stages of development.
4.Presentation, writing and referencing
Due: Week 12
Weighting: 30%
Students design 3 play-based learning experiences that integrate literacy and numeracy and incorporate different types of play for 3 out of 4 different scenarios provided to them. Each scenario focuses on a different age group (birth-12 months; 12-24 months; 2-3 years; 3-5 years) and socio-cultural and socio–economic early education setting.
Students will relate each experience to specific literacy and numeracy outcomes in the EYLF and provide a clear, research-based rationale for the selected literacy and numeracy focus of each experience.
Marking Criteria
1.Well-argued and supported rationale for each planned experience, demonstrating sensitivity to children’s diverse backgrounds and strengths
2.Demonstrated understanding of pedagogies of play and intentional teaching that support early literacy and numeracy development
3.Ability to integrate literacy and numeracy with each other and with other curriculum areas
4.Engagement with relevant research literature
5.Presentation, writing and referencing
Delivery
Internal Tutorials: Wednesday 2pm X5B 045 and Wednesday 4pm X5B 045
On campus days: Saturday 24th March and Sunday 25th March X5B 041
Resources
There is no required textbook for this unit.
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