UWA PLUS
The micro-credential provides interactive instruction and collaborative opportunities to study the form of Short Story and consider how it can be explored in the English classroom as both a close study and creative writing opportunity.
Through a series of lectures, interviews, workshops and activities, participants will engage with classic and contemporary examples of the form and consider ways of developing structural and stylistic elements of the short story such as voice, plot, character and symbolism.
This content will be complemented by considerations of how short stories are studied in the classroom, as well as detailed discussions from writers about creative practice that teachers might find useful for designing programs and lessons.
The unit will be mapped against AITSL standards and supported by the research findings of The Big Picture Project, a joint UWA English and Literary Studies and English Teachers' Association of WA initiative.
Upon successful completion of this micro-credential, you'll receive:
Participants will be able to:
Interpret texts produced in varied cultural and historical contexts with sensitivity to the generic dimensions, intertextual significance, and formal qualities of those texts
Produce creative, original forms of thought and expression
Clearly express ideas, examples and arguments in appropriate written and oral forms
Deploy skills of critical analysis and independent critical reasoning
Critically and positively reflect upon own teaching practice
Evaluate established and new theories of learning and model best practice as a way to improve own performance
Students are able to interpret texts produced in varied cultural and historical contexts with sensitivity to the generic dimensions, intertextual significance, and formal qualities of those texts; produce creative, original forms of thought and expression.
There is a suite of UWA Plus micro-credentials designed for teaching secondary English. Find all the options under 'Education' on the UWA Plus page. You may also be interested in finding out more about Humanities Postgraduate Courses or the Master of Education. If you have successfully completed UWA Plus micro-credentials to a total of 6 PD Points you may be eligible for credit when commencing one of these courses.
