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

    Teaching, Learning and Assessment
  • Unit Code

    EDU2110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sarah JEFFERSON

Description

Effective teachers engage students in meaningful learning and assessment. Engaging students requires teachers to understand how students learn and to choose from, and implement, a range of teaching strategies. Thoughtful strategy application requires understanding of learning and assessment theory so this unit helps to prepare teachers as reflective professionals who are guided by theoretical principles when applying and justifying teaching and assessment strategies.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit has a mixed mode of operation with some online and face to face lectures and tutorials.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDS2101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Choose assessment strategies that align with the intended learning outcomes.
  2. Describe the nature of the adolescent learner.
  3. Design lessons that are informed by learning theory to engage students in purposeful learning.
  4. Reflect critically on their own professional development as a teacher, and take responsibility for improving the use of specific teaching-learning strategies.
  5. Select, apply, evaluate and justify teaching strategies in a planned lesson.
  6. Utilise the educational research knowledge base that informs use of specific planning, teaching-learning and assessment strategies.

Unit Content

  1. Aligning assessment and evaluation strategies and intended learning outcomes.
  2. Professional learning through self reflection, self assessment and goal setting.
  3. Teaching and assessment strategies and how learning theories informing thoughtful choices and strategies.
  4. The adolscent development characteristics of secondary school students and their implications for teaching and assessment.
  5. The processes of measurement and evaluation in secondary education.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorial13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures (on campus and recorded for online delivery) workshops, tutorials, collaborative learning experiences, teaching of short activities and online interactions, such as wikis and blogs via blackboard.

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
AssignmentAssignment One50%
AssignmentAssignment Two50%

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

    Teaching, Learning and Assessment
  • Unit Code

    EDU2110
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sarah JEFFERSON

Description

Effective teachers engage students in meaningful learning and assessment. Engaging students requires teachers to understand how students learn and to choose from, and implement, a range of teaching strategies. Thoughtful strategy application requires understanding of learning and assessment theory so this unit helps to prepare teachers as reflective professionals who are guided by theoretical principles when applying and justifying teaching and assessment strategies.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit has a mixed mode of operation with some online and face to face lectures and tutorials.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDS2101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Choose assessment strategies that align with the intended learning outcomes.
  2. Describe the nature of the adolescent learner.
  3. Design lessons that are informed by learning theory to engage students in purposeful learning.
  4. Reflect critically on their own professional development as a teacher, and take responsibility for improving the use of specific teaching-learning strategies.
  5. Select, apply, evaluate and justify teaching strategies in a planned lesson.
  6. Utilise the educational research knowledge base that informs use of specific planning, teaching-learning and assessment strategies.

Unit Content

  1. Aligning assessment and evaluation strategies and intended learning outcomes.
  2. Professional learning through self reflection, self assessment and goal setting.
  3. Teaching and assessment strategies and how learning theories informing thoughtful choices and strategies.
  4. The adolscent development characteristics of secondary school students and their implications for teaching and assessment.
  5. The processes of measurement and evaluation in secondary education.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 1 hour lecture13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 113 x 2 hour tutorial13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures (on campus and recorded for online delivery) workshops, tutorials, collaborative learning experiences, teaching of short activities and online interactions, such as wikis and blogs via blackboard.

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
AssignmentAssignment One50%
AssignmentAssignment Two50%

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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