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

    Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation
  • Unit Code

    CUR6210
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carli Anne SANBROOK

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students enrolled in the I91 Master of Teaching (Secondary Education) must have completed EDU6230, EDU6332 and EDU6333, plus one of the following units from their Secondary Major Area of Specialisation: SCE6712,DTE6712, DSE6712, LAN6712, PHE6712, HEE6712, HSS6712, MSE6712, MUE6712, AED6712, CSE6712, LAN6732, LAN6742 or DAE6712.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR2210, CUR4210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the AITSL National Teacher Standards to inform teachers knowledge of students and how they learn.
  2. Critically analyse the required curriculum content to support judgements in how to implement effective teaching, learning and assessment in supportive environments.
  3. Analyse aspects of research in their major learning area, to inform best teaching practice.
  4. Articulate a vision for exemplary teaching in their major specialisation based on the AITSL National Teacher Standards.

Unit Content

  1. Identification of the teaching and learning needs of groups and individuals in a particular learning area.
  2. Preparation of a deep teaching and learning experience that draws on specific skills needed for a teacher's major learning area.
  3. Use and application of research on teaching and learning to inform pedagogical decision-making in a particular learning-area.
  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 via ECU’s LMS 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportSpecialisation-specific reflection on the curriculum experience60%
AssignmentParticipation in a deep-learning activity40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportSpecialisation-specific reflection on the curriculum experience60%
AssignmentParticipation 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.

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

    Curriculum Enrichment for the Major Secondary Specialisation
  • Unit Code

    CUR6210
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carli Anne SANBROOK

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.

Prerequisite Rule

Students enrolled in the I91 Master of Teaching (Secondary Education) must have completed EDU6230, EDU6332 and EDU6333, plus one of the following units from their Secondary Major Area of Specialisation: SCE6712,DTE6712, DSE6712, LAN6712, PHE6712, HEE6712, HSS6712, MSE6712, MUE6712, AED6712, CSE6712, LAN6732, LAN6742 or DAE6712.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CUR2210, CUR4210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the AITSL National Teacher Standards to inform teachers knowledge of students and how they learn.
  2. Critically analyse the required curriculum content to support judgements in how to implement effective teaching, learning and assessment in supportive environments.
  3. Analyse aspects of research in their major learning area, to inform best teaching practice.
  4. Articulate a vision for exemplary teaching in their major specialisation based on the AITSL National Teacher Standards.

Unit Content

  1. Identification of the teaching and learning needs of groups and individuals in a particular learning area.
  2. Preparation of a deep teaching and learning experience that draws on specific skills needed for a teacher's major learning area.
  3. Use and application of research on teaching and learning to inform pedagogical decision-making in a particular learning-area.
  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 via ECU’s LMS 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportSpecialisation-specific reflection on the curriculum experience60%
AssignmentParticipation in a deep-learning activity40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportSpecialisation-specific reflection on the curriculum experience60%
AssignmentParticipation 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.

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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