ED2000  Play and Pedagogy: 0-8 years
This unit focuses on the understanding and importance of play to a child’s development and learning.Play allows children of all ages to construct meaning in their environment - it is a medium for learning.  In this unit, students will revisit theories of learning, investigate the stages of play as children grow, and study ways to organise play experiences, including the selecting of appropriate materials. In addition to this, students will focus on the fundamentals of teaching in the early years as well as examine the essential personal and interpersonal factors impinging on their teaching effectiveness. Specific skills for teaching practice in this unit include; lesson planning, questioning techniques and collaborative strategies.

ED2001 Planning & Evaluation: 0-8 years
This unit will take a strategic planning approach in investigating the issues that have an impact on early childhood programs, such as current events, family, and diversity. Students will examine ways of planning for the strengths, needs and interests of individual children in their care to ensure meaningful learning experiences and they will focus on the purposes and processes of evaluation. In this unit, students will be involved in designing both evaluation and assessment tools that focus on learning outcomes and early identification of potential learning difficulties.

ED2002 Management in Childcare Professional & Legal Responsibilities Early childhood teachers need excellent leadership and management strategies to participate effectively in group decision-making for the development of high quality programs and services. They also need an understanding of how management structures impact on programs and service provision. This understanding, together with a high level of personal power, helps individual teachers influence and lead decisions about what happens in early childhood settings. The main focus of this unit is to outline and examine some of the key responsibilities that teachers need to fulfil as educators working across education and care settings.  Legal matters, duty of care, pastoral issues, life style issues that impact upon teaching, student’s rights, teacher’s rights and past legal case studies will be examined. In addition, this unit explores the essence of ‘professionalism’, analyses ethical and moral scenarios and outlines preparation required for employment .

ED2090 Intervention for Learning Difficulties
Prerequisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
This unit is designed to provide students with an understanding of the diverse nature of learning difficulties, to familiarise them with effective instructional design and to give them knowledge about the wide range of intervention strategies. Practical experience in the assessment of learning difficulties, the planning and implementation of individualised intervention programs are features of the unit.

ED2095 Inclusive Education
Prerequisites: Available only to Special Needs specialisation pathway students.   Co-requisites: Nil
This unit aims to provide an introduction to the education of children with special needs. It will examine the particular problems of children, whose academic, physical and behavioural differences require special attention within our education system. Special attention will be given to the methods of identifying and catering for the needs of such children in both the special and regular settings. Social, legal and educational issues relating to the education of children with special needs will also be examined. Practical experience in working with children with special needs will be a feature.

ED2111 Foundational Teaching Skills
Pre-requisites: ED1120 Co-requisites: Nil
This unit introduces secondary teaching students to an array of teaching skills required for instructing adolescents. Different gender-specific approaches are also considered, based on current research into cognitive processing in boys and girls. Teaching skills are considered within the broader framework of the Plan-Teach-Evaluate model of teaching and learning. Students will engage in simulation and role-play exercise in which the teaching skills under consideration can be practised.

ED2135 Introduction to Teaching Skills
Pre-requisites: ED1120 Co-requisites: Nil
This unit focuses on the basic elements and fundamentals of teaching. Planning, teaching and learning strategies covered. In addition, students will examine the essential personal and interpersonal factors impinging on their teaching effectiveness.

ED2217 Catering for Difference
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
This unit aims to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills required to facilitate the education of children with learning difficulties and or who are gifted and/or talented in the regular class setting. It will examine the principles and procedures that inform modifications to the classroom environment, curriculum, instruction and assessment of students with special needs.

ED2218 Principles of Secondary Religious Education I
Pre-requisites: TH101 Co-requisites: Nil
ED2218 is designed for students to acquire an understanding of the theological and pedagogical principles of the mandated diocesan Religious Education Guidelines. Students explore the context of religious education as a Ministry of the Word and as the first Learning Area in a Catholic school. From this context students examine the relationship between God’s self-revelation with people and the processes of integrating faith and life within the draft lower secondary RE Units of Work. The Unit assists students to develop skills in identifying the life and faith situations of lower secondary school students and to inculturate the content of the Catholic Faith to address their questions, concerns, hopes and fears. It is a requirement for those seeking ‘Accreditation to Teach Religious Education in a Catholic School’ as religious educators in a Catholic secondary school.

ED2294 School Experience I: Secondary
Pre-requisites: ED1294, ED2111 Co-requisites: Either EDSMxx or EDSSxx
The unit is a school experience program for one school term. Student-teachers teach a number of lessons in the same class in their major or minor Learning Area. Observation of the teaching of the experienced tutor teacher and working with small groups under the direction of the teacher are other key components of the School Experience. Each student-teacher is assessed for developing competence and a 'satisfactory' evaluation is required for progression to the School Experience 2.

ED2310 Leadership through service learning
This unit explores the concept of service-learning as a means of developing leadership.  Key leadership attributes essential for effective service-learning are examined.  These include: the ability to take initiative, solve problems, work as a team, make decisions that have real results for the community, and demonstrate abilities through helping others.  The social justice focus for the unit centres on the topics of poverty and ecology, relevant topics for primary education.  In conjunction with an intellectual understanding of key issues, students work in pairs to undertake a minimum of 13 hours of community service placement.  As a result of participating in this unit students will be able to demonstrate leadership skills through personal reflection, teamwork, discussion and class presentation.

ED2315 – Mathematics Learning for Early Adolescents
This unit is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to teach mathematics effectively to students in the middle years (typically years 6-9). It will address the particular needs of students in the early adolescent phase of learning. It will focus on developing an understanding of fluency of mathematical reasoning, an ability to apply mathematics to authentic problems, an ability to evaluate significance of results, strategies to solve problems for which solutions are not obvious and the acquisition of mathematical intuition.   Operating within the three strands of the Australian Curriculum, students will gain a knowledge of the content, an understanding of the concepts, mathematical literacy and teaching strategies that are appropriate to meet the needs of students in the middle years of schooling. How students’ best learn mathematics and the implications this has for teaching mathematics will be at the core of this unit. A range of resources (including ICT) to engage and support learning will be investigated.

ED2394 School Experience I: Primary
Pre-requisites: ED1394, ED2135 Co-requisites: ED2395
The unit is a school experience program for one school term. Student-teachers teach a number of lessons in to the same class in a particular Learning Area(s). Observation of the teaching of the experienced tutor teacher and working with small groups under the direction of the teacher are other key components of the School Experience. Each student-teacher is assessed for developing competence and a 'satisfactory' evaluation is required for progression to the School Experience 2.

ED2395 Primary Teaching Method I
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: ED2394
The unit will provide regular opportunities for student-teachers to gain resources and acquire information about teaching strategies to apply to the teaching lessons during the School Experience 1. By working closely with Learning Area Specialists, student-teachers will work towards the closer integration of theory and practice.

ED2425 Psychological Principles of Classroom Management
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
This unit examines the classroom organisation, management and disciplinary approaches appropriate to the primary and secondary classroom. A range of management approaches, imbedded in psychological theory, are critiqued and application strategies considered. The nature of issues and problems confronting young children and adolescents are examined in order to gain an understanding of the context of classroom management. This unit provides a balance between essential theoretical knowledge and practical implementation within the classroom, ensuring that students have a confident attitude as they commence their first practicum experience in schools.

ED2536 Development and Learning
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
This unit specifically covers developmental issues and their complex interaction with learning. Central to the unit are the topics of genetics and heredity; perception; language; cognition; intelligence; emotion; the self and values; the effects of family, school and peers. In critically examining the reasons for development and learning occurring in the way they do, the following developmental themes will recur throughout this unit: role of nature/nurture; socio-cultural influences; prominence of individual differences; interaction among the domains of development; application of theory to practice.

ED2537 Creating Learning Environments
Pre-requisites: NilCo-requisites: ED2536
This unit addresses key aspects to be considered in the structuring of developmentally appropriate learning environments for four to eight year olds. The unit will also encourages practical applications for planning and managing safe, stimulating and challenging learning environments that foster the development of the whole child.

ED2538 - Planning and Evaluation in Early Childhood
Pre-requisites: ED2135 Co-requisites: Nil
This unit is essential for students who have decided to work with children from Kindergarten to Year 3 because the requirements of planning and evaluating in the area of early childhood education are unique, specific and rigorous. Significantly, this unit will provide necessary opportunities for applying theoretical knowledge to practical planning situations.

ED2594 School Experience I: Early Childhood
Pre-requisites: ED1594; ED2135 Co-requisites: ED2595
The unit is a school experience program for one school term. Student-teachers teach a number of lessons in to the same class in a particular Learning Area(s). Observation of the teaching of the experienced tutor teacher and working with small groups under the direction of the teacher are other key components of the School Experience. Each student-teacher is assessed for developing competence and a 'satisfactory' evaluation is required for progression to the School Experience 2.

ED2595 Early Childhood Teaching Method I
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: ED2594
The unit will provide regular opportunities for student-teachers to gain resources and acquire information about teaching strategies to apply to the teaching lessons during the School Experience 1. By working closely with Learning Area Specialists, student-teachers will work towards the closer integration of theory and practice.

ED2618 Principles of Primary Religious Education 1
Pre-requisites: TH101 Recommended Co-requisites: Nil
Throughout this unit students examine the basic theological and educational principles underlying the Religious Education Programs in Catholic schools. Students will also explore the nature, purpose and aims of the Catholic school. Basic theological understandings of Sacraments, the Human Person, Salvation and the synthesis of Faith, Life and Culture will be addressed. Students will also be introduced to Diocesan Religious Education Programs. Particular attention will be given to lesson preparation, methodology and student readiness for Religious Education.

ED2623 Health & Physical Education
Pre-requisites: ED1120 Co-requisites: Nil
This unit is designed to assist prospective teachers in furthering the knowledge necessary to successfully teach Health and Physical Education in the classroom. It assists students in understanding the important role of physical activity in maintaining healthy lifestyles. Students will also develop specialised skills in this learning area through the Fundamental Movement Skills teacher’s course and the presentation of planning support materials in both Health and Physical Education.

ED2627 Society and Environment and LOTE
Pre-requisites: ED1120 Co-requisites: Nil
In this unit, the Society and Environment and LOTE Learning Areas of the Curriculum Framework are integrated. Students use the Overarching and Learning Area Outcomes of the Curriculum Framework to explore concepts of place and space; culture; time, continuity and change; and natural and social systems. Active citizenship, social justice and ecological sustainability are also covered. Students also investigate how cultural beliefs, values, abilities and ethical positions are interconnected. The selection and use of the appropriate learning technologies is also addressed.

ED2631 English 2: Reading & Viewing
Pre-requisites: English 1 Co-requisites: Nil
An holistic approach to the teaching of language and literacy underpins the English units; however it is acknowledged that specific focus needs to be given to the teaching of the different modes of language. As such, the core content of this second English unit focuses on the effective teaching of reading and viewing, through an integrated approach linking theory and practice. Writing and oral language are integral to the development of reading and viewing and will be embedded in the unit. The Curriculum Framework, National English Curriculum and WA syllabus documents are incorporated into planning and documenting  a comprehensive reading and viewing instructional program. A range of assessment tools will be introduced and applied in a practical literacy case study. Tutorials will model key instructional strategies essential to effective literacy teaching, and integrate literature as central to the curriculum. Differentiation of learning and teaching strategies to address learning difficulties in reading are an integral part of this unit. Resources to support the teaching of literacy will be introduced and used in the development of the reading and viewing instructional program.

ED2632 Transforming Learning through ICT
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
This unit is designed to equip prospective and practicing teachers with personal skills and understanding to make effective use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support learning outcomes for their students. A variety of opportunities provided by ICTs to transform the learning and teaching experience and an understanding of pedagogical approaches towards ICT implementation are explored. Students will produce a rich technology-based teaching resource that can be maintained and used in the classroom.

ED2652 – Mathematics 2: Number and Algebra (New Unit to be cross coded with ED4652)
This the second in a sequence of four units in Mathematics Education. This unit explores the Number and Algebra strand of the Australian Mathematics Curriculum. There is a focus on both the content of this strand and the development of appropriate pedagogical strategies relating to the teaching of Number and Algebra from Early Childhood to late Primary. There is an emphasis on how children learn mathematics and the implications for teaching. Students will be introduced to a range of resources including the use of ICT to support mathematics learning and teaching. There is a continued focus on the mathematics skills and knowledge of students, with demonstrated competency required with primary level mathematics topics. 

ED2894 School Experience 1 : Bachelor of Health & Physical Education (Only)
Pre-requisites: ED1894 Co-requisites: Nil
The unit is a school experience program for one school term. Student-teachers teach a number of lessons in to the same class in a particular Learning Area(s). Observation of the teaching of the experienced tutor teacher and working with small groups under the direction of the teacher are other key components of the School Experience. Each student-teacher is assessed for developing competence and a 'satisfactory' evaluation is required for progression to the School Experience 2.

ED2918 Primary Religious Education 1 (K-7 Course Only)
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
Throughout this unit students examine the basic theological and educational principles underlying the Religious Education Programs in Catholic schools. Students will also explore the nature, purpose and aims of the Catholic school. Basic theological understandings of Sacraments, the Human Person, Salvation and the synthesis of Faith, Life and Culture will be addressed. Students will also be introduced to Diocesan Religious Education Programs. Particular attention will be given to lesson preparation, methodology and student readiness for Religious Education.

JS223 Education, Service and Community Engagement
Pre-requisites: Nil Co-requisites: Nil
This unit introduces students to community service learning. Notions of service and education are examined and critiqued. As well as developing an intellectual understanding of key concepts, students undertake a minimum of 12 hours community service placement. Reflection in situ of their personal experiences, academic reading in the growing area of community service-learning, social analysis and researching particular social issues/situations, are essential elements of the unit.