The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through one's thoughts, experience, and senses.
Knowledge and cognitive skills: Acquired skills that reflect an individual's ability to think. Cognitive skills include verbal and spatial abilities, concentration, memory, perception, reasoning, planning and organisation, flexible thinking, and problem solving.
- Introduction
Consistent and effective knowledge and cognitive skills must be demonstrated to provide safe, professional and competent teaching practice. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The capacity to locate appropriate and relevant information
- The ability to process information relevant to practice
- The ability to integrate, reflect on and implement theoretical knowledge in online and in person tutorials, during professional practice and field experience settings.
- Justification of inherent requirement
Delivery of quality teaching relies on the understanding and application of theory in practice. Graduates of accredited courses must meet the Graduate Teacher Standards and/or ACECQA requirements. - Adjustments
Adjustments must support the student's ability to acquire, analyse and apply knowledge. - Exemplars
- Conceptualising and use appropriate knowledge in response to academic assessment items
- Identifying and applying knowledge of policy and procedures during professional engagements and field experience settings.
Literacy (language): This relates to the ability to acquire, understand, and apply information in a scholarly manner.
- Introduction
Competent English language and literacy skills are essential for professional practice and effective delivery of teaching content. - Description of inherent requirement
Student demonstrates:
- The ability to accurately acquire information and convey appropriate messages
- Ability to read and comprehend a range of texts for teaching and learning purposes
- The capacity to understand and implement academic conventions to construct written text in a scholarly manner.
- Justification of inherent requirement
The ability to acquire information and to accurately convey information is fundamental to teaching and learning. The ability to read, decode, interpret, and comprehend multiple sources of information is fundamental for effective preparation and teaching practice. Graduates of accredited courses must meet the Graduate Teaching Standards and/or the ACECQA requirements. - Adjustments
Adjustments must enable the demonstration of a capacity to effectively acquire, comprehend, apply, and communicate accurate information.
Exemplars:- Conveying a spoken message accurately
- Competently constructing and sharing a range of texts including digital, written, and visual texts for a range of social contexts.
Numeracy: This relates to the knowledge, skills, behaviours and dispositions needed to use mathematical knowledge and skills purposefully.
- Introduction
Competent and accurate numeracy skills are essential for effective delivery of teaching content. - Description of inherent requirement
Ability to use numbers, patterns and relationships, spatial reasoning, and measurement, and to interpret statistical information in a range of teaching contexts. - Justification of inherent requirement
Competent application of numeracy skills is fundamental for effective delivery of teaching content. Students of accredited courses must pass the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education (LANTITE) prior to graduation. - Adjustments
Students must enable the demonstration of effective numeracy skills.
- Exemplars:
Demonstrating competency in applying basic mathematics knowledge and skills in everyday life and in academic tasks - Demonstrating effective use of numeracy skills in matters related to student learning
- Applying numeracy skills to interpret and solve problems in a range of educational and academic contexts.