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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Programming and Assessment in Literacy
  • Unit Code

    CUR6010
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Rozita DASS

Description

Through this unit, pre-service Teachers will develop, reflect upon and apply their knowledge about Literacy teaching and learning. The unit looks at the relationship between assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and reflection in the Literacy planning process. Theories and frameworks related to the planning and assessment of language and literacy are explored. Children's individual language differences and methods of monitoring these facets are examined.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed LAN6015 and MPE6105 to enrol in this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and apply knowledge of theories of language learning to the planning and assessment of literacy.
  2. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of planning for language learning across the curriculum.
  3. Formulate strategic learning goals that cater for diverse learning needs in language learning.
  4. Construct appropriate assessments to monitor children’s literacy development.
  5. Plan and critique strategies for teaching literacy in primary schools.
  6. Critically examine a range of texts as resources for professional and classroom use.
  7. Design a learning program for children from a range of language backgrounds and different levels of attainment, demonstrating understanding of the links between assessment, teaching, learning and evaluation.

Unit Content

  1. Theories of language learning, contemporary research and current issues.
  2. Review of current curriculum documents in the planning and assessment process.
  3. Principles of planning, implementing and evaluating language interactions in a variety of contexts.
  4. Effective methods of identifying and taking into account students' current knowledge and strategies and keeping records of literacy development.
  5. Classroom resources for the teaching of literacy.
  6. Effective classroom teaching of literacy, including monitoring progress and investigating individual differences in language development.
  7. Exploration of a range of texts and classroom resources in literacy teaching.
  8. Assessment techniques and resources to enable profiling of children's language development.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, discussion of readings and related research, school-based learning, ICT, group work and presentations.

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
AssignmentAssignment40%
ProjectProject60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment40%
ProjectProject60%

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 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. 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, 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Programming and Assessment in Literacy
  • Unit Code

    CUR6010
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Rozita DASS

Description

Through this unit, pre-service Teachers will develop, reflect upon and apply their knowledge about Literacy teaching and learning. The unit looks at the relationship between assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation and reflection in the Literacy planning process. Theories and frameworks related to the planning and assessment of language and literacy are explored. Children's individual language differences and methods of monitoring these facets are examined.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed LAN6015 and MPE6105 to enrol in this unit.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research and apply knowledge of theories of language learning to the planning and assessment of literacy.
  2. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of planning for language learning across the curriculum.
  3. Formulate strategic learning goals that cater for diverse learning needs in language learning.
  4. Construct appropriate assessments to monitor children’s literacy development.
  5. Plan and critique strategies for teaching literacy in primary schools.
  6. Critically examine a range of texts as resources for professional and classroom use.
  7. Design a learning program for children from a range of language backgrounds and different levels of attainment, demonstrating understanding of the links between assessment, teaching, learning and evaluation.

Unit Content

  1. Theories of language learning, contemporary research and current issues.
  2. Review of current curriculum documents in the planning and assessment process.
  3. Principles of planning, implementing and evaluating language interactions in a variety of contexts.
  4. Effective methods of identifying and taking into account students' current knowledge and strategies and keeping records of literacy development.
  5. Classroom resources for the teaching of literacy.
  6. Effective classroom teaching of literacy, including monitoring progress and investigating individual differences in language development.
  7. Exploration of a range of texts and classroom resources in literacy teaching.
  8. Assessment techniques and resources to enable profiling of children's language development.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, discussion of readings and related research, school-based learning, ICT, group work and presentations.

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
AssignmentAssignment40%
ProjectProject60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment40%
ProjectProject60%

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 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. 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, 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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