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

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Maria NORRIS

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. Demonstrate broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning.
  2. Manage teaching and learning processes in their learning area.
  3. Plan goals and prepare for ATP.
  4. Plan to promote and support student learning in their particular learning area.
  5. Use educational research and policy frameworks to reflect on the development and delivery of programmes in community and educational contexts.
  6. 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.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 29 x 3 hour seminar9 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online resources Collaborative group work Professional reading Independent study Interactive tutorials Mathematics students will engage in additional field experience by supporting high school students in OLNA.

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 School Progression Panel.

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

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Maria NORRIS

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. Demonstrate broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning.
  2. Manage teaching and learning processes in their learning area.
  3. Plan goals and prepare for ATP.
  4. Plan to promote and support student learning in their particular learning area.
  5. Use educational research and policy frameworks to reflect on the development and delivery of programmes in community and educational contexts.
  6. 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.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 29 x 3 hour seminar9 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online resources Collaborative group work Professional reading Independent study Interactive tutorials Mathematics students will engage in additional field experience by supporting high school students in OLNA.

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 School Progression Panel.

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

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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