School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Education
  • Unit Code

    HSS6712
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Olivia JOHNSTON

Description

Within the context of the principles of outcomes based learning this unit offers an in-depth study of various teaching preparation processes for teaching-learning in the Humanities and Social Sciences learning area Year 7-12. Emphasis will be on planning excursions, skills, values, and various assessment protocols suitable for use in the learning area. Participants will explore web-based curriculum materials and utilise these in their preparation processes.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed HSS6711

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE4225, HSS4225, HSS4233

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the current SCSA curriculum to inform and design lesson planning in secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.
  2. Critically evaluate a range of strategies and resources (including ICT) to develop effective teaching and learning activities for a secondary Humanities and Social Sciences Learning area classroom.
  3. Critically evaluate learning programs to create a sequence of lessons informed by the secondary Humanties and Social Sciences curriculum.
  4. Critically analyse and create a range of assessment strategies and tools to assess, make consistent judgement and provide feedback on secondary Humanities and Social Sciences students’ knowledge and understanding.

Unit Content

  1. Lesson planning using SCSA curriculum.
  2. Teaching strategies and resources for secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.
  3. Lesson planning and sequencing.
  4. Create learning programs – forward planning documents.
  5. Formative and summative assessments techniques for secondary Humanities and Social Sciences.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, workshops, school experience, e-learning and excursions may be used.

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
AssignmentForward planning document and lesson plans60%
AssignmentAssessment – diagnostic, formative and summative for your learning area40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentForward planning document and lesson plans60%
AssignmentAssessment – diagnostic, formative and summative for your learning area40%

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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