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

    Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • Unit Code

    LAN6601
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Anne-Maree HAYS

Description

This unit introduces foundational principles and practices in secondary English teaching. It covers curriculum frameworks for English, lesson design, teaching strategies, resources, and instructional methods. Students will learn how to plan effective lessons that meet curriculum requirements and student needs. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of content knowledge in the English curriculum and its role in the development of reading and writing abilities. Common ideologies and misperceptions that undermine effective teaching and learning in English will also be addressed. Demonstrations and examples used in the unit will relate mainly to the lower secondary years.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Construct effective lessons for reading and writing in lower secondary English.
  2. Describe the language abilities of students in Years 8-10, and relate these to curriculum goals and content for English.
  3. Evaluate some competing constructions of secondary English.
  4. Explain and apply key principles of language learning and development in reading, writing and oral language.
  5. Explain the content and organisation of the Australian Curriculum.
  6. Respond to and remediate writing by secondary students.
  7. Select and apply instructional techniques and technologies appropriate to students, content and curriculum goals.

Unit Content

  1. English curricula and frameworks.
  2. Evaluation and remediation of student writing.
  3. Ideologies and misperceptions in the teaching of English.
  4. Instructional techniques for concepts and skills in English: modelling, demonstration, guided reading, guided writing, and direct instruction.
  5. Issues and challenges in Secondary English.
  6. Language processes in English: reading, writing, viewing, listening, speaking.
  7. Lesson planning for reading and writing: formats, requirements, processes.
  8. The place of English in the secondary curriculum: its history, purposes and functions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online readings Independent activities Interaction with tutor and peers via email and discussion boards

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLesson planning and planning processes for reading50%
AssignmentLesson planning for writing and assessment50%

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

    Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • Unit Code

    LAN6601
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Anne-Maree HAYS

Description

This unit introduces foundational principles and practices in secondary English teaching. It covers curriculum frameworks for English, lesson design, teaching strategies, resources, and instructional methods. Students will learn how to plan effective lessons that meet curriculum requirements and student needs. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of content knowledge in the English curriculum and its role in the development of reading and writing abilities. Common ideologies and misperceptions that undermine effective teaching and learning in English will also be addressed. Demonstrations and examples used in the unit will relate mainly to the lower secondary years.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Construct effective lessons for reading and writing in lower secondary English.
  2. Describe the language abilities of students in Years 8-10, and relate these to curriculum goals and content for English.
  3. Evaluate some competing constructions of secondary English.
  4. Explain and apply key principles of language learning and development in reading, writing and oral language.
  5. Explain the content and organisation of the Australian Curriculum.
  6. Respond to and remediate writing by secondary students.
  7. Select and apply instructional techniques and technologies appropriate to students, content and curriculum goals.

Unit Content

  1. English curricula and frameworks.
  2. Evaluation and remediation of student writing.
  3. Ideologies and misperceptions in the teaching of English.
  4. Instructional techniques for concepts and skills in English: modelling, demonstration, guided reading, guided writing, and direct instruction.
  5. Issues and challenges in Secondary English.
  6. Language processes in English: reading, writing, viewing, listening, speaking.
  7. Lesson planning for reading and writing: formats, requirements, processes.
  8. The place of English in the secondary curriculum: its history, purposes and functions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online readings Independent activities Interaction with tutor and peers via email and discussion boards

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLesson planning and planning processes for reading50%
AssignmentLesson planning for writing and assessment50%

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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