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 there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the 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

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • 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.

Prerequisite Rule

Student must have completed EDU6230, EDU6332 and EDU6333

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's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
SummerNot Offered5 x 6 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

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 School Progression Panel.

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.

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

    High Impact Instruction for Students with Learning Difficulties
  • Unit Code

    EDU6784
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • 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.

Prerequisite Rule

Student must have completed EDU6230, EDU6332 and EDU6333

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's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
SummerNot Offered5 x 6 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

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 School Progression Panel.

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.

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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