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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

    Assessment and Learning in Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Unit Code

    HSS3213

  • Year

    2017

  • 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 unit offers an in-depth study of various teacher preparation processes for teaching and learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area at the lower secondary level. Emphasis will be on various assessment, recording, reporting and monitoring systems, planning excursions, skills, values, civics and citizenship learning. Participants will explore web based curriculum materials and utilise these in their preparation processes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE2213, SSE3213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain and utilise the framework and achievement standards of all lower secondary levels of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  2. Develop learning units or tasks with a focus on knowledge and understandings, skills and values in the four subjects of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  3. Design and produce teaching support materials for learners.
  4. Apply reflective practice principles to analyse and refine short term learning plans.
  5. Critically examine recording and reporting techniques.
  6. Identify and utilise web based Humanities and Social Sciences support materials and resources.
  7. Design and evaluate various monitoring and marking schema that will inform the learning process.

Unit Content

  1. Western Australia's K-10 Curriculum in HASS (and its relationship to the Australian Curriculum).
  2. Planning for learning in Humanities and Social Sciences, lesson plans for multi-level and single level classes.
  3. Preparation of teacher notes and teaching aids for lower secondary students.
  4. Planning processes for excursions, policies and issues for implementation.
  5. Principles of assessment and their implementation in the learning area.
  6. Strategies for devising valid, comprehensive, educative, explicit and comprehensive assessments.
  7. Marking keys, rubrics and checklists: issues of transparent assessments, monitoring, reporting and recording.
  8. Processes for developing a variety of learning experiences based on learning values, concepts and using ICTs.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, e-learning, template learning, independent and group based learning, excursions and incursions.

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
PresentationPresentation50%

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

    Assessment and Learning in Lower Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Unit Code

    HSS3213

  • Year

    2017

  • 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 unit offers an in-depth study of various teacher preparation processes for teaching and learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area at the lower secondary level. Emphasis will be on various assessment, recording, reporting and monitoring systems, planning excursions, skills, values, civics and citizenship learning. Participants will explore web based curriculum materials and utilise these in their preparation processes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE2213, SSE3213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain and utilise the framework and achievement standards of all lower secondary levels of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  2. Develop learning units or tasks with a focus on knowledge and understandings, skills and values in the four subjects of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  3. Design and produce teaching support materials for learners.
  4. Apply reflective practice principles to analyse and refine short term learning plans.
  5. Critically examine recording and reporting techniques.
  6. Identify and utilise web based Humanities and Social Sciences support materials and resources.
  7. Design and evaluate various monitoring and marking schema that will inform the learning process.

Unit Content

  1. Western Australia's K-10 Curriculum in HASS (and its relationship to the Australian Curriculum).
  2. Planning for learning in Humanities and Social Sciences, lesson plans for multi-level and single level classes.
  3. Preparation of teacher notes and teaching aids for lower secondary students.
  4. Planning processes for excursions, policies and issues for implementation.
  5. Principles of assessment and their implementation in the learning area.
  6. Strategies for devising valid, comprehensive, educative, explicit and comprehensive assessments.
  7. Marking keys, rubrics and checklists: issues of transparent assessments, monitoring, reporting and recording.
  8. Processes for developing a variety of learning experiences based on learning values, concepts and using ICTs.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, e-learning, template learning, independent and group based learning, excursions and incursions.

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
PresentationPresentation50%

Core Reading(s)

  • (2008). Studies of society and environment : exploring the teaching possibilities. (5th ed.). Australia: Pearson Education.

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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