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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    High Impact Instruction for Students with Learning Difficulties
  • Unit Code

    EDU6784
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Lorraine Sarah HAMMOND

Description

This unit will consider educational issues for students with learning difficulties together with identifying the characteristics of students at risk. The emphasis will be on assessment, planning, organisation, management, and teaching of students with learning difficulties within the regular classroom. A critical analysis of effective teaching strategies and the identification of current trends in educating students with learning difficulties will be undertaken.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU6584

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply diagnostic and remedial techniques and differentiate the curriculum to accommodate the needs of individual students within the regular classroom.
  2. Assess, plan, organise and manage the teaching of students with learning difficulties within the regular classroom.
  3. Critically analyse and evaluate current research on, and effective teaching strategies to use with, students with learning difficulties.
  4. Identify the characteristics of students at risk and major policy issues in respect of service delivery to children with learning difficulties.
  5. Investigate the development of a whole school support program for students at educational risk that works collaboratively with school staff, parents and peripatetic staff.

Unit Content

  1. Developing a whole school support program for students at educational risk.
  2. Diagnostic and remedial techniques and differentiating the curriculum to accommodate the needs of individual students within the regular classroom.
  3. Effective teaching strategies and models of instruction; screening procedures; mastery learning, remedial and corrective instruction, computer-based instruction; metacognitive processes.
  4. Planning, organising, and managing the teaching of students with learning difficulties in the regular classroom.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered5 x 7 hour seminarNot Offered
SummerNot OfferedNot Offered5 x 7 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Critiques, practical project and independent study.

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
Case StudyCase Study - Learning Difficulty50%
Research PaperResearch that changed my teaching: Supporting adolescents with Learning Difficulties 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase Study - Learning Difficulties50%
Research PaperResearch that changed my teaching: Supporting adolescents with Learning Difficulties 50%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    High Impact Instruction for Students with Learning Difficulties
  • Unit Code

    EDU6784
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Lorraine Sarah HAMMOND

Description

This unit will consider educational issues for students with learning difficulties together with identifying the characteristics of students at risk. The emphasis will be on assessment, planning, organisation, management, and teaching of students with learning difficulties within the regular classroom. A critical analysis of effective teaching strategies and the identification of current trends in educating students with learning difficulties will be undertaken.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU6584

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply diagnostic and remedial techniques and differentiate the curriculum to accommodate the needs of individual students within the regular classroom.
  2. Assess, plan, organise and manage the teaching of students with learning difficulties within the regular classroom.
  3. Critically analyse and evaluate current research on, and effective teaching strategies to use with, students with learning difficulties.
  4. Identify the characteristics of students at risk and major policy issues in respect of service delivery to children with learning difficulties.
  5. Investigate the development of a whole school support program for students at educational risk that works collaboratively with school staff, parents and peripatetic staff.

Unit Content

  1. Developing a whole school support program for students at educational risk.
  2. Diagnostic and remedial techniques and differentiating the curriculum to accommodate the needs of individual students within the regular classroom.
  3. Effective teaching strategies and models of instruction; screening procedures; mastery learning, remedial and corrective instruction, computer-based instruction; metacognitive processes.
  4. Planning, organising, and managing the teaching of students with learning difficulties in the regular classroom.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered5 x 7 hour seminarNot Offered
SummerNot OfferedNot Offered5 x 7 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Critiques, practical project and independent study.

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
Case StudyCase Study - Learning Difficulty50%
Research PaperResearch that changed my teaching: Supporting adolescents with Learning Difficulties 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase Study - Learning Difficulties50%
Research PaperResearch that changed my teaching: Supporting adolescents with Learning Difficulties 50%

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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