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This course consolidates your primary curriculum specialisation studies as a primary or early childhood pre-service educator. The course equips you to teach in each of the learning areas of the primary school curriculum, as well in a subject specialisation. This advanced specialisation course extends your primary curriculum specialisation with the aim of developing the necessary tools to use your expert knowledge in your chosen curriculum area to inclusively meet the needs of diverse students.

This course introduces an evidence-based framework that teaches you how to establish diverse and inclusive classrooms. You will address three significant areas; working with children with special needs, working with children who are EALD learners and working with children who are gifted and talented. In each module of the course, you will learn to, directly and explicitly, apply advanced content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and highly effective classroom teaching of your chosen primary curriculum specialisation.

On successful completion of this course student should be able to:

1. demonstrate knowledge of physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students, including students from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and show an understanding of how this impacts students’ learning (APST 1.1, 1.2, 1.3);
2. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities, including students with a disability (APST 1.5, 1.6);
3. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance and structure of the content and teaching strategies of the chosen primary curriculum teaching area, including appropriate links to the Australian curriculum (APST 2.1);
4. demonstrate an understanding of a range of planning and teaching strategies including the design of appropriate and relevant resources that allow all learners to achieve challenging learning goals that specifically address their needs (APST 3.1, 3.3, 3.4);
5. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of academic literature in relation to theories of catering for diverse learners, especially in context of the chosen primary curriculum specialisation (APST 2.1);
6. demonstrate appropriate cognitive, literacy and communication skills, including spelling, grammar, punctuation and APA referencing.