EDSE12015 Teaching Curriculum Literacies

In this course, students will demonstrate appropriate understandings of, and provide explicit instruction in, the discourses and literacies of their secondary school content/disciplines. They will be analysing disciplinary genres and the explicit teaching of text structures and rhetorical features. A knowledge of the field, mode and tenor of disciplinary genres together with the linguistic constructions of texts within specialised discipline areas is also addressed. Students will learn how knowledge is constructed in curriculum areas through modelling, discussion and guided practice.