Create a folio, as described in items 3–6 below. Your folio may be written in first person where appropriate.
You must use the APA referencing style for this assignment. There is no minimum number of references required, but you will know more if you read more, and will be able to integrate others' ideas into your submission, demonstrating your knowledge and understanding of teaching the Humanities.
Teaching within the Humanities (500 words)
Choose ONE of the options below (a, b, c or d) and explain how you would teach the following inquiry questions to the specified grade level:
How and why do people choose to remember significant events of the past? (Australian Curriculum, Year 3)
What is the difference between rules and laws, and why are they important? (Australian Curriculum, Year 4)
Why do businesses exist and what are the different ways they provide goods and services? (Australian Curriculum, Year 6)
What makes a place special? (Australian Curriculum, Year Foundation)
Analyze assessment strategies (500 words)
Using the same teaching example from Section 3, justify your choice of assessment strategy/ies and record-keeping instruments to assess student learning.
Controversial topics (500 words)
Choose a controversial issue that is in the news at the moment and write a 500-word statement about your approach to exploring this issue with students. An excellent reading for you to use is The high cost of uncritical teaching (PDF 481 KB) (Links to an external site.) (Winn, 2004, pp. 496–497).
Please stipulate/identify what year level you are teaching.
Humanities across the school (500 words)
Identify examples of engagement with Humanities concepts outside of the formal classroom context (e.g. Student Representative Council). Include this list as an appendix—there is no limit to the number of examples you provide, and this does not add to the word count. The more examples, the more you demonstrate your understanding of the opportunities students have for learning outside of the formal learning environment for learning Humanities concepts.
Write a short response answering the following questions:
What do students learn from involvement in these sorts of activities?
If the discipline concepts are lived through these experiences, do they have to be formally taught in the classroom? Provide reasons to justify your answer which includes reference to your list of examples.
Note: Your folio can be written in first person where appropriate. You should submit your folio as a Word document. You must use APA referencing style for this assignment. Across all sections we expect you to justify your choices using scholarly literature and relevant curriculum documents.
