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

    Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation
  • Unit Code

    CUR4210
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sarah JEFFERSON

Description

This unit consolidates content knowledge and expands curriculum perspectives that have been developing over four years in the area of students major specialisations, involving them in practical and creative demonstrations of pedagogy at its best. Curriculum coordinators will choose an intensive teaching and learning activity or project for delivery to senior year secondary students, so that pre-service teachers can graduate with some particular, targeted professional knowledge about teaching and learning in their major discipline at Years 11 or 12. The unit also looks at ways to evaluate how teaching impacts upon senior secondary students, thus developing values for evidence-based teaching effectiveness. The unit stresses the importance of continuous engagement with leading edge information in a teachers specialisation commitment to ongoing professional growth.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR2210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop an understanding of the AITSL National Teacher Standards to inform teachers knowledge of students and how they learn.
  2. Explain their vision for exemplary teaching in their major specialisation based on the AITSL National Teacher Standards.
  3. Organise the required curriculum content to implement effective teaching, learning and assessment in supportive secondary classroom environments.
  4. Analyse aspects of research in their major learning area, to inform best teaching practice.

Unit Content

  1. Attitudes and practices that support engagement in a vision for teaching in ones major discipline and in continuous professional growth.
  2. Preparation of a deep teaching and learning experience for Years 11 or 12 that draws on specific skills needed for a teachers major learning area.
  3. The teaching and learning needs of groups and individuals in a particular learning area, in the senior schooling years.
  4. Use and application of research on teaching and learning to inform pedagogical decision-making in a particular learning-area at the senior schooling level.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 28 x 4 hour seminar13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Field Experience

Students will undertake, and be assessed on, authentic activities through engagement with industry and community partners.

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 and discussion, professional reading, independent study and interactive tutorials. For the Food technology and materials majors, students will be required to undertake workplace activity tasks and assessments.

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
ReportSpecialisation-specific reflection on the curriculum experience60%
ParticipationParticipation in a deep-learning activity40%

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

    Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation
  • Unit Code

    CUR4210
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sarah JEFFERSON

Description

This unit consolidates content knowledge and expands curriculum perspectives that have been developing over four years in the area of students major specialisations, involving them in practical and creative demonstrations of pedagogy at its best. Curriculum coordinators will choose an intensive teaching and learning activity or project for delivery to senior year secondary students, so that pre-service teachers can graduate with some particular, targeted professional knowledge about teaching and learning in their major discipline at Years 11 or 12. The unit also looks at ways to evaluate how teaching impacts upon senior secondary students, thus developing values for evidence-based teaching effectiveness. The unit stresses the importance of continuous engagement with leading edge information in a teachers specialisation commitment to ongoing professional growth.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR2210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop an understanding of the AITSL National Teacher Standards to inform teachers knowledge of students and how they learn.
  2. Explain their vision for exemplary teaching in their major specialisation based on the AITSL National Teacher Standards.
  3. Organise the required curriculum content to implement effective teaching, learning and assessment in supportive secondary classroom environments.
  4. Analyse aspects of research in their major learning area, to inform best teaching practice.

Unit Content

  1. Attitudes and practices that support engagement in a vision for teaching in ones major discipline and in continuous professional growth.
  2. Preparation of a deep teaching and learning experience for Years 11 or 12 that draws on specific skills needed for a teachers major learning area.
  3. The teaching and learning needs of groups and individuals in a particular learning area, in the senior schooling years.
  4. Use and application of research on teaching and learning to inform pedagogical decision-making in a particular learning-area at the senior schooling level.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 28 x 4 hour seminar13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

WIL - Field Experience

Students will undertake, and be assessed on, authentic activities through engagement with industry and community partners.

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 and discussion, professional reading, independent study and interactive tutorials. For the Food technology and materials majors, students will be required to undertake workplace activity tasks and assessments.

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
ReportSpecialisation-specific reflection on the curriculum experience60%
ParticipationParticipation in a deep-learning activity40%

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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