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

    Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences (Primary)
  • Unit Code

    HSS4215
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr William Nicolas TURNER

Description

This unit investigates the nature and scope of the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area within the context of WA and Australian curriculum documents. Pre-service teachers will analyse the structure, content and use of the current curriculum documents. They will examine inquiry oriented teaching strategies and learning activities for developing conceptual understandings, consider issues based approaches, review Humanities and Social Sciences processes and skills and core values underpinning the learning area. In addition, pre-service teachers will identify a range of teaching and learning resources, examine assessment in this learning area and introduce long term planning.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces SSE4215

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop an integrated teaching and learning program to achieve Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum requirements.
  2. Identify and apply appropriate techniques to monitor and report on the level of achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  3. Locate and utilise a range of humanities and social sciences resource materials and local community resource locations for effective teaching and learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  4. Explain and justify the nature, scope and role of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area for Western Australian schools.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment techniques, monitoring processes and reporting procedures for the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  2. Society and environment, social studies, social education, social inquiry and the social sciences: similarities, differences and linkages.
  3. Planning and implementing excursions and incursions within a teaching and learning program to address the Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum.
  4. Promoting active citizenship values of democratic process, social justice, and ecological sustainability.
  5. Processes and skills for developing an inquiry to address the curriculum.
  6. Strategies for developing conceptual understandings.
  7. Planning within a framework: Programming and lesson planning.
  8. Resources for teaching the Humanities and Social Sciences (including textual, audio visual, computer software, the Internet, community based and other types of resources).
  9. The Australian Curriculum learning area, Humanities and Social Sciences: rationale, year level descriptions, content descriptors, content elaborations, and achievement standards.
  10. Current curriculum documents in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Workshops Tutorials

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
PresentationTutorial Presentation40%
AssignmentForward Planning Document60%

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

    Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences (Primary)
  • Unit Code

    HSS4215
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr William Nicolas TURNER

Description

This unit investigates the nature and scope of the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area within the context of WA and Australian Curriculum documents. Pre-service teachers will analyse the structure, content and use of the current curriculum documents. They will examine inquiry oriented teaching strategies and learning activities for developing conceptual understandings, consider issues based approaches, review Humanities and Social Sciences processes and skills and core values underpinning the learning area. In addition, pre-service teachers will identify a range of teaching and learning resources, examine assessment in this learning area and introduce long term planning.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces SSE4215

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop an integrated teaching and learning program to achieve Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum requirements.
  2. Identify and apply appropriate techniques to monitor and report on the level of achievement in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  3. Locate and utilise a range of humanities and social sciences resource materials and local community resource locations for effective teaching and learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  4. Explain and justify the nature, scope and role of the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area for Western Australian schools.

Unit Content

  1. The Australian Curriculum & Western Australian Curriculum learning area, Humanities and Social Sciences.
  2. Planning for Inquiry Based Teaching and Learning in the Humanities & Social Sciences Learning Area.
  3. Inquiry processes and HSS skills.
  4. Resources for teaching and learning in the Humanities & Social Sciences Learning Area.
  5. Assessment in the Humanities & Social Sciences Learning Area.
  6. Active Citizenship and Values Education in the Humanities & Social Sciences Learning Area.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures Workshops Tutorials

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
PresentationTutorial Presentation40%
AssignmentForward Planning Document60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Reynolds, R. (2014). Teaching humanities and social sciences in the primary school. (3rd ed.). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.

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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