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

    Secondary English Education
  • Unit Code

    LAN6712
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Barbara Ruth HARRIS

Description

This unit focuses on term and semester planning for the teaching of secondary English. It covers curriculum goals and content, text selection, program sequencing, and teaching strategies. Students will learn to interpret curriculum documents and develop programs of work that address the curriculum requirements and the developmental needs and abilities of secondary students. Core content topics and text types will be studied in detail to support the construction of teaching programs. Documents, materials and demonstrations in this unit will range across years 7 to 12 of secondary schooling.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed LAN6711

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN6602, LAN4276

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Adapt teaching plans to take account of the diversity of student backgrounds, needs and abilities.
  2. Apply knowledge of content topics, text types and skills in program planning.
  3. Construct detailed programs for English that meet curriculum and syllabus requirements across a range of text areas.
  4. Design appropriate tasks for formative and summative assessment of student achievement.
  5. Evaluate the suitability of specific texts for inclusion in a program of work.
  6. Explain the content and organisation of curriculum frameworks and syllabuses in secondary English.
  7. Identify factors that influence student development in comprehension and composition, and accommodate these factors in their planning.
  8. Reflect upon and justify their aims and methods in relation to specific models of English teaching.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment principles and practices for English.
  2. Curriculum frameworks and syllabuses for English.
  3. Non-traditional and emergent content and topics for English, including the use of new technologies in the curriculum.
  4. Principles and techniques for term and semester planning in English.
  5. Resources and approaches appropriate to the content topics and text types.
  6. Strategies for achieving curriculum differentiation.
  7. Text types and key content topics in secondary English, including prose fiction, scripted drama, poetry and song, expository text, feature film, TV narrative, digital media and canonical texts.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

On campus workshops Readings and discussion

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
AssignmentProgram of work for English60%
AssignmentTake-home Exam: Theory, planning and teaching40%

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

    Secondary English Education
  • Unit Code

    LAN6712
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Barbara Ruth HARRIS

Description

This unit focuses on term and semester planning for the teaching of secondary English. It covers curriculum goals and content, text selection, program sequencing, and teaching strategies. Students will learn to interpret curriculum documents and develop programs of work that address the curriculum requirements and the developmental needs and abilities of secondary students. Core content topics and text types will be studied in detail to support the construction of teaching programs. Documents, materials and demonstrations in this unit will range across years 7 to 12 of secondary schooling.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have completed LAN6711

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN6602, LAN4276

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Adapt teaching plans to take account of the diversity of student backgrounds, needs and abilities.
  2. Apply knowledge of content topics, text types and skills in program planning.
  3. Construct detailed programs for English that meet curriculum and syllabus requirements across a range of text areas.
  4. Design appropriate tasks for formative and summative assessment of student achievement.
  5. Evaluate the suitability of specific texts for inclusion in a program of work.
  6. Explain the content and organisation of curriculum frameworks and syllabuses in secondary English.
  7. Identify factors that influence student development in comprehension and composition, and accommodate these factors in their planning.
  8. Reflect upon and justify their aims and methods in relation to specific models of English teaching.

Unit Content

  1. Assessment principles and practices for English.
  2. Curriculum frameworks and syllabuses for English.
  3. Non-traditional and emergent content and topics for English, including the use of new technologies in the curriculum.
  4. Principles and techniques for term and semester planning in English.
  5. Resources and approaches appropriate to the content topics and text types.
  6. Strategies for achieving curriculum differentiation.
  7. Text types and key content topics in secondary English, including prose fiction, scripted drama, poetry and song, expository text, feature film, TV narrative, digital media and canonical texts.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

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

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

On campus workshops Readings and discussion

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
AssignmentProgram of work for English60%
AssignmentTake-home Exam: Theory, planning and teaching40%

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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