DETAILS OF SUBJECTS
5. ELECTIVE COURSES IN OTHER SECONDARY-SCHOOL SCIENCE AREAS
(A) ASTRONOMY
One hour per week of lecture or private study in a carrel with associated practical work and excursions for about seven weeks in term III.
SYLLABUS
Theories of the origin and structure of the cosmos, galaxies, stars and the solar system. Radio astronomy, telescopes, meteors, comets, asteroids, quasars, satellites, space exploration and weightlessness. Day, night, seasons, eclipses, motion of the planets, stars and satellites. Distance in space, units.
Methods used in teaching astronomy.
BOOKS
A comprehensive list will be issued at the start of the course.
Recommended for Preliminary Reading
BERGAMINI, D. — The Universe (Time-Life International) MOORE, Patrick. — Basic Astronomy (Oliver & Boyd, 1967) SAGAN, C. — Planets (Time-Life International)
REDDISH, Vincent C. - Evolution of the Galaxies (Oliver & Boyd, 1967).
EXAMINATION
An objective test at the end of the course.
(B) BIOLOGY — (For students who have not studied the subject at tertiary level).
One hour of practical work per week for about 10 weeks in term II, and one hour per week of private instruction in a self-study carrel. Instruction is by an audio tape with the aid of books, charts, films, specimens, models, etc. Student response is structured to some extent. The supporting materials are changed each week but the tape is always available.
SYLLABUS
The topics covered include the following to about matriculation standard:—
Anatomy of representative organisms.
Understanding of classification.
Knowledge of biological taxonomy.
Cells — structure and function.
Tissues, organs and systems.
Producer organisms—photo and protein synthesis, gaseous exchange.
Consumer organisms — ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and use in respiration.
Distribution systems — animals — circulatory and lymphatic systems.
— plants - transpiration, osmosis.
Behaviour and coordination — animals — nerves and nervous systems, senses, endocrine system.
— plants — tropisms.
Reproduction — animals (mainly mammals).
— plants — (mainly flowers).
Evolution Ecology
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GILLULY, WATERS and WOODFORD RUTLEY
HILLS BIRD HOLMES BOOKS
These will be supplied in the carrel.
ASSESSJIENT
An objective test at the end of the course.
(C) GEOLOGY
Ten 1-hour lecture-discussion sessions during terms II and III. Excursions 'nay be held where necessary.
SYLLABUS
An introduction to selected aspects of the geological sciences as they apply to the teaching of science in the junior school (forms 1 -4).
Theories of formation of the solar system, the geological time-scale.
Elementary crystallography, mineralogy, petrology. An introduction to palaeontology with reference to the stratigraphy of Victoria. Simple geo- m orphological processes. Structural geology. Orogenic movements.
BOOKS References
READ and WATSON BULMAN and
FEARNSIDES PEARL
— Beginning Geology (Macmillan, Allen and Unwin)
Geology in the Service of Man (Pelican)
— Geology (Barnes and Noble, N.Y. College Outline Series)
— Principles of Geology (Freeman)
— Mineralogy (Murby)
— Physiography of Victoria (Whitcombe and Tombs)
— Coastal Landforms. An Introduction to Coastal Geomorphology with Australian Examples (A.N.U., Canberra)
— Principles of Physical Geology (2nd Edn.) (Nelson)
MATTHEWS — Fossils (Barnes and Noble, N.Y.).
EXAMINATION
One 1-hour objective test on completion of the lecture-series.
METHOD OF SHORTHAND AND TYPEWRITING AND LINKING STUDIES
One 3-hour seminar in term I, one 1-hour seminar per week in terms II and III. Linking studies: two hours per week in term I.
SYLLABUS
The teaching of typewriting: typewriting and the development of psycho- motor skills. Keyboard introduction: the learning process, the development of technique. Production typewriting, typewriting and communication skills,
%Personal typewriting.
The teaching of shorthand: shorthand as a language skill. Alternative approaches to the teaching of shorthand in the secondary school. The speed
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class in shorthand. The teaching of stenography.
Linking Studies in Shorthand and Typewriting will explore the application of the Dacomb system of shorthand in the secondary classroom, and the orientation of secretarial procedures and practices for the learning situation.
Special emphasis will be placed on the teaching of communications and language by the teacher of stenographic subjects.
BOOKS
Recommended for Preliminary Reading
McNICHOL, Grace — Teaching Shorthand and Typewriting (London, 1964).
EXAMINATION
Major Essay: due September 25, 1969.
Examination: One 2-hour paper.
METHOD OF SOCIAL SCIENCE AND LINKING STUDIES A course of one lecture per week during each term and two tutorials per week during the first term.
This subject is a preparation for the teaching of social studies, aspects of history and geography and general studies in secondary schools. It is necessary that persons undertaking this teaching method have tertiary qualifications in at least one of the following fields: anthropology, economics, geography, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, sociology.
SYLLABUS (a) METHOD
The course is designed to assist teachers-in-training who are working regularly in a school. It will therefore be concerned with the following:
— issues arising from the practical situation of the classroom;
- the various methods and problems of teaching social science;
— the selection and presentation of concepts appropriate to each level of secondary education;
— the aims of teaching social science at the secondary level of education.
(b) LINKING STUDIES
Students are required to participate in the preparation of a school syllabus unit in a form suitable for use in a classroom. The prepared unit will be presented to other students in the method of social science course for their consideration. In this way, linking studies will provide students with an opportunity to exchange their various ideas on essentially practical issues associated with the teaching of social science.
BOOKS
Preliminary Reading SOCIAL STUDIES
UNIVERSITY SCHOOLS BOARD References
FENTON, E.
SELAKOVITCH, D.
STANDING COMMITTEE, MELBOURNE
— Social Studies for Secondary Schools (M.U.P. 4th edition, 1961)
— The New Social Studies (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967)
— Problems in Secondary Social Studies (Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1965).
EXAMINATION
One 2
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hour paper plus assignment work.PRACTICE TEACHING (a) Classroom Experience
This subject requires regular school experience and teaching in the Method subjects undertaken. Students will be assisted in this work by school principals and their staffs, College staff, demonstration lessons and a program of micro-teaching at the College.
(b) Micro
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Teaching ProgramMicro-teaching is a simulated classroom experience in which material is taught to a peer group in small-time spans and the teaching is recorded on a videotape recorder. The micro-lesson is replayed through a television receiver for observation by both teacher and class. Discussion follows the re-play. Each student will undertake a minimum of six hours of such experience.
Micro-teaching should provide a means for a teacher to develop and practise presentation methods in a sympathetic group and to gain confidence in methods of teaching before he has to use or adapt them to suit the variables present in school classrooms.
(c) Assessment
Final assessment in Practice Teaching will be made by the College method staff.
ORGANIZATION OF TEACHING
A lecture-discussion course of two hours per week in second and third terms.
SYLLABUS
This course comprises two units:
1. Secondary-School Organization (a) Educational aims.
(b) Vertical school organization (school systems, grading/nongrading).
(c) Horizontal school organization (sectioning, team teaching, curriculum patterns).
2. Measurement and Evaluation (a) Examination systems.
(b) Objectives and evaluation procedures.
(c) Objective and essay test items.
(d) Item analysis.
(e) Interpretation and comparison of test scores.
BOOKS
Prescribed Books
ANDERSON, R. H. Teaching in a World of Change (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1966)
CONNELL, W. F.
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The Foundations of Education (Novak,(ed.) 1967)
EDGAR, D. E.
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Examination Marks — their use and interpretation (Hall's Book Store, 1964)References ADAMS, G. S.
AHMANN, J. S. and GLOCK, M. D.
ALEXANDER, W.
M.
et at.
BAIR, M. and
WOODWARD, R. G.
BEGGS, D. W. (ed.) BEGGS, D. W. and
BUFFIE, E. G.
BLOOM, B. S. (ed.) BROWN, B. F.
BROWN, B. F.
BROWN, B. F.
DUNN, S. S.
EBEL, R. L.
GOODLAD, J. I.
GOODLAD, J. I.
GRONLUND, N. E.
HEDGES, W. D.
— Measurement and Evaluation in Teaching (Macmillan, 1965)
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— Testing and Evaluation for the Sciences (Wadsworth, 1966), (for Science students only)
SAYLOR,
J.
G. andALEXANDER, W. M.
SHAPLIN, J. T. and OLDS, H. F. (eds.) TRUMP,