View the following presentation for an overview of the types of curriculum resources the Library provides to support your teaching and how to access them.

1. Accessing curriculum resources
to support your teaching
Master of Teaching
University of Melbourne Library

2. Learning Objectives
• The types of resources in the curriculum
collections relevant to Master of Teaching
Secondary students
• How to access resources in the School level
textbook collection using a variety of methods
• How to access further support

3. Master of Teaching students have access to a
wealth of curriculum resources via the Library
• Our School textbook collection supports the
current National Curriculum and provides
textbooks from a range of publishers being
used in schools for the learning areas offered
by MGSE.
• Fiction collections
• Media (including streamed resources)
• Kits
• ICT resources

4. Accessing the Library collections
to access all online
resources and library
search tools
UoM
username and
password
to borrow
materialsStudent card

5. Initial subjects : where library resources
will support your assessment tasks
Learning Area A1 Assessment Task 1: A discussion of the design
of purposeful learning activities
• Pedagogical theories
• Research material in the specific learning area
Learning Area A1 Assessment Task 2: Designing a unit of work
AND Learning Area B1 Assessment Task 1: Designing a unit of
work
• School Textbooks and curriculum support material
• Digital technologies
Learning Area B1 Assessment Task 2:Textbook evaluation
• School Textbooks and curriculum support material
• eBooks

6. Example assessment task

7. You can use a range of strategies to locate
curriculum resources in the collections
1. Search the Library catalogue (keyword / title / subject search)
and scope your results to search across all Education
Curriculum collections or a specific collection such as the
textbooks.
2. From Master of Teaching (Secondary) Internship Guide
• connect to ICT resources and streamed media you can use
in the classroom
• connect to the School Level Textbook guide to browse by
year level and learning area to discover textbooks and
curriculum links
• you can also search the Library catalogue from the within
your library guide

8. 1. Search the Library catalogue (keyword / title /
subject search) and scope your results to the
Education Curriculum collections

9. Access media and online curriculum resources
via your library guide
2. From the Master of Teaching (Secondary) Internship
library guide, select the Media tab.

10. Grammatikus is an online resource which allows
students to play games to build their grammar
knowledge.
Features:
• game-based learning
• whole class access
• lesson plans
• aligned with the National Curriculum
• charts display student progress
Grammatikus: English and grammar
resource

11. Twig World: Science resource
Twig is an online resource which features
thousands of resources to support secondary
school teaching in science, maths and
geography including:
• Films
• Lesson plans
• Worksheets

12. Access digital resources via the library
catalogue
Step One:
Enter the title of the
resource in the catalogue
Step Two:
Access resource via the
catalogue record
.

13. Access streamed media using the library
guides
2. You can access streamed videos to use in your
lessons from the library guide.
The videos are accessible 24/7 and play
immediately!

14. The embedded search function is available in two sections of
your guide
2. You can also search the textbook collections from the
within the library guides

15. We purchase titles being used in Victorian Schools from a school
textbook supplier.
Only a selection of titles are listed on the guide – we recommend
you search the catalogue to view all results for your learning area.
2. In the School level textbook guide you can navigate
the tabs and browse for textbooks and curriculum links

16. Need Help?
From the Getting Started page of your library guide
you can get assistance via online chat or
contact a librarian via email
Refer to your library guide