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.

Please note that there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Humanities and Social Sciences Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    HSS6711
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • 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 or the early adolescence phase of learning. Areas of emphasis will cover: the framework for the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area including Achievement Standards and outcomes; the WA K-10 Curriculum syllabus statements; concept teaching-learning, skills development and resources; planning learning experiences and long term forward planning techniques.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces SSE4210, unit previously coded HSS4210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the rationale for the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  2. Develop a range of pedagogical approaches for each of the subjects in the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  3. Plan and evaluate short term learning experiences/lesson plans.
  4. Describe and justify the conceptual and methodological contributions of each of the Social Science subject disciplines to the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  5. Locate, utilise and evaluate a range of resource materials.
  6. Design a forward planning document for Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.

Unit Content

  1. Learner and teacher perceptions of the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.
  2. Planning short term learning experiences.
  3. Long term forward planning: strategies, processes and formats.
  4. Teaching social science skills in the learning area.
  5. Processes of backwards mapping in curriculum design.
  6. Resources for learners and for teachers.
  7. The structure of knowledge, concept teaching-learning.
  8. Western Australian School Curriculum and Standards Authority K-10 Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered12 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.

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%
AssignmentAssignment50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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.

  • Unit Title

    Humanities and Social Sciences Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    HSS6711
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr 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 or the early adolescence phase of learning. Areas of emphasis will cover: the framework for the Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area including Achievement Standards and outcomes; the WA K-10 Curriculum syllabus statements; concept teaching-learning, skills development and resources; planning learning experiences and long term forward planning techniques.

Equivalent Rule

Replaces SSE4210, unit previously coded HSS4210

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically review the current SCSA curriculum to identify outcomes for lesson planning in secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.
  2. Research appropriate scholarly literature to critically analyse best practice teaching strategies and resources (including ICT) in a secondary Humanities and Social Sciences classroom.
  3. Evaluate and design differentiated teaching and learning activities for a secondary Humanities and Social Sciences classroom.
  4. Design lesson plans with clear learning goals informed by the secondary Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum.
  5. Design a forward planning document for Humanities and Social Sciences Learning Area.

Unit Content

  1. Identify outcomes for lesson planning in SCSA curriculum.
  2. Research best practice teaching strategies and resources for secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.
  3. Develop differentiated teaching and learning activities.
  4. Lesson plans with clear learning goals.
  5. Processes of backwards mapping in curriculum design.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, e-learning, template learning, school based experiences.

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
AssignmentAssessment50%
AssignmentLesson planning50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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