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

    Planning and Teaching Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    HSS3110
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr William John ALLEN

Description

This introductory unit is designed to prepare students for teaching the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area to learners in the lower secondary years/early adolescence phase. Areas of emphasis will include: the framework for the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area, the WA SCSA K-10 Curriculum Guide; the Australian Curriculum, concept teaching-learning, skills development, teaching resources. Students will learn to plan long term learning experiences that utilise investigative processes and conceptual outcomes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE2103, SSE3110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design a forward planning document for Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  2. Formulate strategies to utilise the principles of concept development (DS2, DS3).
  3. Plan and evaluate short term learning experiences/lesson plans.
  4. Locate, utilise and evaluate a range of resource materials.
  5. Apply investigative and skills development processes in their planning of learning experiences.
  6. Describe and justify the conceptual and methodological contributions of the Social Science disciplines to the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.

Unit Content

  1. Long term forward planning: strategies, processes and formats.
  2. Learner and teacher perceptions of the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  3. The structure of knowledge, concept teaching learning.
  4. Teaching investigative and skills processes in the learning area.
  5. Planning short term learning experiences.
  6. WA SCSA K-10 Curriculum Guide and the Australian Curriculum Guides.
  7. Planning through backwards mapping.
  8. Resources for learners and for teachers.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, e-learning, template learning, school based experiences, independent and group based learning.

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
ExerciseExercise50%
AssignmentAssignment 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.

  • Unit Title

    Planning and Teaching Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    HSS3110
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr William John ALLEN

Description

This introductory unit is designed to prepare students for teaching the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area to learners in the lower secondary years/early adolescence phase. Areas of emphasis will include: the framework for the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area, the WA SCSA K-10 Curriculum Guide; the Australian Curriculum, concept teaching-learning, skills development, teaching resources. Students will learn to plan long term learning experiences that utilise investigative processes and conceptual outcomes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE2103, SSE3110

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design a forward planning document for Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  2. Formulate strategies to utilise the principles of concept development (DS2, DS3).
  3. Plan and evaluate short term learning experiences/lesson plans.
  4. Locate, utilise and evaluate a range of resource materials.
  5. Apply investigative and skills development processes in their planning of learning experiences.
  6. Describe and justify the conceptual and methodological contributions of the Social Science disciplines to the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.

Unit Content

  1. Long term forward planning: strategies, processes and formats.
  2. Learner and teacher perceptions of the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  3. The structure of knowledge, concept teaching learning.
  4. Teaching investigative and skills processes in the learning area.
  5. Planning short term learning experiences.
  6. WA SCSA K-10 Curriculum Guide and the Australian Curriculum Guides.
  7. Planning through backwards mapping.
  8. Resources for learners and for teachers.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, e-learning, template learning, school based experiences, independent and group based learning.

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
ExerciseExercise50%
AssignmentAssignment 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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