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

    Direct Instruction and Teaching Effectiveness in Special Education
  • Unit Code

    EDU6477
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Lorraine HAMMOND

Description

Explicit Instruction (EI) and Direct Instruction (DI) are high impact instructional strategies that support all students’ learning including those with Learning Difficulties and Learning Disabilities including Dyslexia. This unit reviews the information processing model and effective teaching principles that underpin both EI and DI and the practical aspects of lesson design and lesson delivery to teach literacy and numeracy. An examination of the impact of models of teacher-led instruction in contemporary classrooms will also be undertaken. The unit has a strong practical component and students will be given the opportunity to design and deliver EI and DI.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU5477

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically reflect on the historical and theoretical perspectives of teacher-directed models of instruction in the context of contemporary pedagogies used in schools.
  2. Critically analyse examples of teaching practice for evidence of task-analysis, lesson design and delivery components.
  3. Critically reflect on the teacher knowledge and skills required to deliver scripted direction instructions programs to support staff/schools in taking up the approach.

Unit Content

  1. Historical and theoretical perspectives of teacher-directed instruction and the nomenclature to describe this pedagogy including Explicit and Direct Instruction, Daily Review and lessons.
  2. Information Processing Models, working memory and the role of spaced retrieval practice.
  3. Strategies to reduce cognitive load, create schema and promote retention of pre-cursor literacy and numeracy skills in all learners, particularly those with Learning Difficulties and Learning Disabilities including Dyslexia.
  4. Examine different scripted Direct Instruction materials to teach literacy and numeracy and the role of instructional coaching.
  5. The efficacy of Explicit and Direct Instruction in terms of alignment with existing whole school approaches, resources and instructional strategies.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
EssayReview of a direct instruction program50%
AssignmentPosition Paper50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayReview of a direct instruction program50%
AssignmentPosition Paper50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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.

  • Unit Title

    Direct Instruction and Teaching Effectiveness in Special Education
  • Unit Code

    EDU6477
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Lorraine HAMMOND

Description

Explicit Instruction (EI) and Direct Instruction (DI) are high impact instructional strategies that support all students’ learning including those with Learning Difficulties and Learning Disabilities including Dyslexia. This unit reviews the information processing model and effective teaching principles that underpin both EI and DI and the practical aspects of lesson design and lesson delivery to teach literacy and numeracy. An examination of the impact of models of teacher-led instruction in contemporary classrooms will also be undertaken. The unit has a strong practical component and students will be given the opportunity to design and deliver EI and DI.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU5477

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically reflect on the historical and theoretical perspectives of teacher-directed models of instruction in the context of contemporary pedagogies used in schools.
  2. Critically analyse examples of teaching practice for evidence of task-analysis, lesson design and delivery components.
  3. Critically reflect on the teacher knowledge and skills required to deliver scripted direction instructions programs to support staff/schools in taking up the approach.

Unit Content

  1. Historical and theoretical perspectives of teacher-directed instruction and the nomenclature to describe this pedagogy including Explicit and Direct Instruction, Daily Review and lessons.
  2. Information Processing Models, working memory and the role of spaced retrieval practice.
  3. Strategies to reduce cognitive load, create schema and promote retention of pre-cursor literacy and numeracy skills in all learners, particularly those with Learning Difficulties and Learning Disabilities including Dyslexia.
  4. Examine different scripted Direct Instruction materials to teach literacy and numeracy and the role of instructional coaching.
  5. The efficacy of Explicit and Direct Instruction in terms of alignment with existing whole school approaches, resources and instructional strategies.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

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
EssayReview of a direct instruction program50%
AssignmentPosition Paper50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayReview of a direct instruction program50%
AssignmentPosition Paper50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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