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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 Upper Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Unit Code

    HSS4225

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr William John ALLEN

Description

This unit examines teaching senior school courses within the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area. Its focus will be the Year 11 and Year 12 WACE course documents; however, some focus on lower secondary Humanities and Social Sciences will also be necessary. Participants will develop a working knowledge of the underlying principles and strategies that deal with achieving appropriate learning area outcomes, teaching-learning resources, assessments, constructing rubrics and assessment tasks. A system for planning teaching-learning programs for these courses will be processed. Students will focus on one of the following senior secondary teaching areas: economics, geography, history, political science, ancient history.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Both on-campus and residency mode of delivery are available. Selected Pre-service Teachers may complete some aspects of the unit within the residency schools as part of the residency mode.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces SSE4225

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design assessment instruments appropriate for evaluating the achievement of syllabus objectives.
  2. Describe the content and assessment requirements of the WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority courses of study for all Year 11 and Year 12 courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  3. Utilise excursion policy documents to plan out of school learning experiences.
  4. Describe the key elements and distinctive characteristics of the WA K-10 Curriculum for the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  5. Identify the contribution of the social sciences and methods of social inquiry to secondary education.
  6. Evaluate the impact of state and national curriculum developments on the implementation of senior secondary syllabuses.
  7. Construct a functional teaching/learning programme for a section/unit of an upper secondary syllabus.

Unit Content

  1. Development of a model for long term planning of an upper secondary syllabus course.
  2. The application and implementation of investigative based teaching-learning tasks.
  3. Avenues for teacher professional self-development.
  4. An overview of the philosophical and methodological contributions of various social science disciplines to senior school secondary education.
  5. A review of WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority's policy and procedures related to assessment, grading and moderation.
  6. The structure, content and requirements of senior school courses.
  7. An overview of curriculum developments and an analysis of their impact on teaching-learning processes with respect to upper secondary syllabus design and implementation.
  8. The integration of subject specific process skills to promote conceptual development.
  9. Planning, implementing and integrating field work activities into the teaching-learning programme.
  10. A review of current teaching-learning resources including relevant teacher/professional associations.
  11. Designing appropriate assessment instruments to monitor student outcomes.

Additional Learning Experience Information

A combination of lectures, discussions, workshops, demonstrations, multi-media presentations, guest speakers, fieldwork, school-based experience and personal reference reading may be used to implement this unit depending upon discipline specialisation.

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

    Teaching Upper Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Unit Code

    HSS4225

  • Year

    2017

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr William John ALLEN

Description

This unit examines teaching senior school courses within the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area. Its focus will be the Year 11 and Year 12 WACE course documents; however, some focus on lower secondary Humanities and Social Sciences will also be necessary. Participants will develop a working knowledge of the underlying principles and strategies that deal with achieving appropriate learning area outcomes, teaching-learning resources, assessments, constructing rubrics and assessment tasks. A system for planning teaching-learning programs for these courses will be processed. Students will focus on one of the following senior secondary teaching areas: economics, geography, history, political science, ancient history.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Both on-campus and residency mode of delivery are available. Selected Pre-service Teachers may complete some aspects of the unit within the residency schools as part of the residency mode.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces SSE4225

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design assessment instruments appropriate for evaluating the achievement of syllabus objectives.
  2. Describe the content and assessment requirements of the WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority courses of study for all Year 11 and Year 12 courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  3. Utilise excursion policy documents to plan out of school learning experiences.
  4. Describe the key elements and distinctive characteristics of the WA K-10 Curriculum for the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area.
  5. Identify the contribution of the social sciences and methods of social inquiry to secondary education.
  6. Evaluate the impact of state and national curriculum developments on the implementation of senior secondary syllabuses.
  7. Construct a functional teaching/learning programme for a section/unit of an upper secondary syllabus.

Unit Content

  1. Development of a model for long term planning of an upper secondary syllabus course.
  2. The application and implementation of investigative based teaching-learning tasks.
  3. Avenues for teacher professional self-development.
  4. An overview of the philosophical and methodological contributions of various social science disciplines to senior school secondary education.
  5. A review of WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority's policy and procedures related to assessment, grading and moderation.
  6. The structure, content and requirements of senior school courses.
  7. An overview of curriculum developments and an analysis of their impact on teaching-learning processes with respect to upper secondary syllabus design and implementation.
  8. The integration of subject specific process skills to promote conceptual development.
  9. Planning, implementing and integrating field work activities into the teaching-learning programme.
  10. A review of current teaching-learning resources including relevant teacher/professional associations.
  11. Designing appropriate assessment instruments to monitor student outcomes.

Additional Learning Experience Information

A combination of lectures, discussions, workshops, demonstrations, multi-media presentations, guest speakers, fieldwork, school-based experience and personal reference reading may be used to implement this unit depending upon discipline specialisation.

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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