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

    Strategies for Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students
  • Unit Code

    EDF6101
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Graeme Cornelius GOWER

Description

This unit focuses on providing Australian teachers with the skills and knowledge to effectively teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The unit will explore teaching strategies and the differing learning styles that reflect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and ways of being. In addition, students will respond to cultural identity, linguistic backgrounds and histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in order to be culturally competent. Students will construct an understanding of others through knowledge and awareness of the self in order to empathise with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain their own values, attitudes and beliefs.
  2. Compare Western and Indigenous knowledge systems.
  3. Outline Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being.
  4. Construct the links between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their country, stories and song.
  5. Interrogate Australia's history from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective.
  6. Differentiate Western and Indigenous family structures and language conventions.
  7. Design and implement effective strategies that are responsive to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, parents, families and staff.
  8. Determine their philosophy and approach to teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students based on their context or location.

Unit Content

  1. Myself as a person and a professional.
  2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, living and being.
  3. Learners and learning.
  4. Curriculum that is supportive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
  5. Positive learning experiences.
  6. Principles and practices of connecting schools and community.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online tutorial activities and blackboard discussion, independent learning, research and written assignment

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
ProjectProject50%
EssayEssay50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject50%
EssayEssay50%

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

    Strategies for Teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students
  • Unit Code

    EDF6101
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Graeme Cornelius GOWER

Description

This unit focuses on providing Australian teachers with the skills and knowledge to effectively teach Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The unit will explore teaching strategies and the differing learning styles that reflect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and ways of being. In addition, students will respond to cultural identity, linguistic backgrounds and histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in order to be culturally competent. Students will construct an understanding of others through knowledge and awareness of the self in order to empathise with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain their own values, attitudes and beliefs.
  2. Compare Western and Indigenous knowledge systems.
  3. Outline Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing and being.
  4. Construct the links between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their country, stories and song.
  5. Interrogate Australia's history from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective.
  6. Differentiate Western and Indigenous family structures and language conventions.
  7. Design and implement effective strategies that are responsive to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, parents, families and staff.
  8. Determine their philosophy and approach to teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students based on their context or location.

Unit Content

  1. Myself as a person and a professional.
  2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, living and being.
  3. Learners and learning.
  4. Curriculum that is supportive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
  5. Positive learning experiences.
  6. Principles and practices of connecting schools and community.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online tutorial activities and blackboard discussion, independent learning, research and written assignment

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
ProjectProject50%
EssayEssay50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject50%
EssayEssay50%

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.

EDF6101|1|2