Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

• Unit Title

  Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation

• Unit Code

  CUR6210

• Year

  2020

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

• Unit Coordinator

  Dr Christine Ann ORMOND

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Description

This unit consolidates content knowledge and expands curriculum perspectives that have been developing in 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 secondary students, so that pre-service teachers can graduate with some particular, targeted professional knowledge about teaching and learning in their major discipline at this level. The unit also explores 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 teacher's specialisation and commitment to ongoing professional growth.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR2210, CUR4210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate a sense of professional esteem.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the AITSL National Teacher Standards.
3. Know students and how they learn (Standard 1).
4. Know the content and how to teach it and assess it (Standards 2 and 5).
5. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning in supportive environments(Standards 3 and 4).
6. Describe how aspects of research, in their major learning area, may inform best teaching practice in the senior secondary years (Standard 6).
7. Explain their vision for exemplary teaching in their specialisation, particularly for the senior secondary years (Standards 6 and 7).

Unit Content

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

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online resources, collaborative group work and discussion, professional reading, independent study and 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.

Core Reading(s)

• Winmar, D. (2002). Aliwa! Sydney : Currency Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/52352475

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