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

    Secondary Drama Education
  • Unit Code

    DSE6712
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Claire GRAY

Description

This unit will introduce students to drama teaching in a senior secondary context. The unit will explore some of the major practitioners and innovators in the field as well as familiarising students with Drama Courses (ATAR and General units). Through associated practical work students will develop skills in facilitating drama in the classroom incorporating the function of the teacher, classroom strategies and management, planning, programming and assessing.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed DSE6711

Equivalent Rule

Unit previously coded DSE4210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the value of drama in education by participating in practical drama workshops.
  2. Identify techniques for evaluating the quality of the dramatic process in the teaching/learning environment.
  3. Apply assessment criteria to evaluate student performance (practical and written).
  4. Create General Drama and ATAR Drama programs using SCASA syllabus and support materials.
  5. Develop a structure that supports senior secondary drama students participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in personal, social and cultural contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Criteria and techniques for assessing the process and product of drama in the classroom.
  2. Development of criteria for self-evaluation in the drama classroom.
  3. Practical exploration of drama pedagogy.
  4. SCSA directives and assessment procedures of current courses (Drama General and ATAR).
  5. Translation of theoretical concepts into practice.
  6. Nature and scope of drama education in senior schools.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and seminars, blackboard documents and materials, collaborative group work and discussion, professional reading, independent study, student presentations, skill-based workshops, use of multi-media technology.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationMicro Teaching40%
AssignmentPlanning and Assessing in Drama60%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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

    Secondary Drama Education
  • Unit Code

    DSE6712
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Christina Claire GRAY

Description

This unit will introduce students to drama teaching in a senior secondary context. The unit will explore some of the major practitioners and innovators in the field as well as familiarising students with Drama Courses (ATAR and General units). Through associated practical work students will develop skills in facilitating drama in the classroom incorporating the function of the teacher, classroom strategies and management, planning, programming and assessing.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed DSE6711

Equivalent Rule

Unit previously coded DSE4210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the value of drama in education by participating in practical drama workshops.
  2. Identify techniques for evaluating the quality of the dramatic process in the teaching/learning environment.
  3. Apply assessment criteria to evaluate student performance (practical and written).
  4. Create General Drama and ATAR Drama programs using SCASA syllabus and support materials.
  5. Develop a structure that supports senior secondary drama students participating, creating, expressing and reflecting in personal, social and cultural contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Criteria and techniques for assessing the process and product of drama in the classroom.
  2. Development of criteria for self-evaluation in the drama classroom.
  3. Practical exploration of drama pedagogy.
  4. SCSA directives and assessment procedures of current courses (Drama General and ATAR).
  5. Translation of theoretical concepts into practice.
  6. Nature and scope of drama education in senior schools.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops and seminars, blackboard documents and materials, collaborative group work and discussion, professional reading, independent study, student presentations, skill-based workshops, use of multi-media technology.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationMicro Teaching40%
AssignmentPlanning and Assessing in Drama60%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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