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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

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

    HSS3110
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Olivia JOHNSTON

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.

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 School Progression Panel.

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 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. 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, 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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

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

    HSS3110
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Olivia JOHNSTON

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.

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 School Progression Panel.

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 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. 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, 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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