Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Integrating Curriculum with Practice
  • Unit Code

    CUR3211
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

Students will utilise educational research and policy frameworks as a means of structuring their reflections on their continuing engagement in professional practice contexts. As such, this is a curriculum unit, but it is also strongly identified with and linked to the third year practicum unit PPA3211. Using the AITSL National Standards as a framework, students will reflect on their performance during the School-based Professional Practice, so as to develop their individual goals and work plans in preparation for ATP the following semester.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Manage teaching and learning processes in their learning area.
  2. Plan goals and prepare for ATP.
  3. Plan to promote and support student learning in their particular learning area.
  4. Use educational research and policy frameworks to reflect on the development and delivery of programmes in community and educational contexts.
  5. Use evidence from Professional Practice to reflect on teaching, and schools as workplaces.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis and reflection of school based experience data gathered during Professional Practice, when matched against the AITSL National Teacher Standards.
  2. Educational research and State and National policies on teacher education and teaching.
  3. Goal setting activities for ATP.
  4. Preparations for Professional Practice.
  5. Specific learning area and subject knowledge and content as related to the AITSL National Standards.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online resources Collaborative group work Professional reading Independent study Interactive tutorials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentSpecialisation-specific assignment related to the practicum experience60%
ReportReflective journal related to the AITSL National Standards40%

Text References

  • Specialisation-specific: to be advised by the relevant curriculum coordinator. Please refer to the Curriculum Area Folder (for example, "Drama") on the CUR3211 Blackboard site.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Integrating Curriculum with Practice
  • Unit Code

    CUR3211
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

Students will utilise educational research and policy frameworks as a means of structuring their reflections on their continuing engagement in professional practice contexts. As such, this is a curriculum unit, but it is also strongly identified with and linked to the third year practicum unit PPA3211. Using the AITSL National Standards as a framework, students will reflect on their performance during the School-based Professional Practice, so as to develop their individual goals and work plans in preparation for ATP the following semester.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Manage teaching and learning processes in their learning area.
  2. Plan goals and prepare for ATP.
  3. Plan to promote and support student learning in their particular learning area.
  4. Use educational research and policy frameworks to reflect on the development and delivery of programmes in community and educational contexts.
  5. Use evidence from Professional Practice to reflect on teaching, and schools as workplaces.

Unit Content

  1. Analysis and reflection of school based experience data gathered during Professional Practice, when matched against the AITSL National Teacher Standards.
  2. Educational research and State and National policies on teacher education and teaching.
  3. Goal setting activities for ATP.
  4. Preparations for Professional Practice.
  5. Specific learning area and subject knowledge and content as related to the AITSL National Standards.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online resources Collaborative group work Professional reading Independent study Interactive tutorials

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentSpecialisation-specific assignment related to the practicum experience60%
ReportReflective journal related to the AITSL National Standards40%

Text References

  • Specialisation-specific: to be advised by the relevant curriculum coordinator. Please refer to the Curriculum Area Folder (for example, "Drama") on the CUR3211 Blackboard site.

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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