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

    Preparation Processes for the Secondary Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    SSE6623
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ekaterina THIVEOS

Description

Within the context of the principles of contemporary approaches to learning, this unit offers an in-depth study of various teacher preparation processes for teaching-learning in the Social Sciences at the lower secondary level. Emphasis will be on planning excursions, teaching and learning skills, values, civics and citizenship. Participants will explore web based curriculum materials suitable for the lower secondary years and utilise these in their preparation processes. Long term planning processes and techniques will be explored.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine, explain and analyse the contemporary curriculum documents of all lower secondary levels of the Social Sciences.
  2. Evaluate and utilise the curriculum resources to design a long term planning resource for lower secondary Social Sciences.
  3. Judge, identify and critique web based Social Sciences support materials and resources.
  4. Plan and apply reflective practice principles to analyse and refine short term learning plans.
  5. Plan and demonstrate competencies to generate learning units or tasks with a focus on skills, values and civics and citizenship education.

Unit Content

  1. Planning for learning in the Social Sciences, lesson plans for multi-level and single level classes.
  2. Planning processes for excursions, policies and issues for implementation.
  3. Preparation of teacher notes and teaching aids for lower secondary students.
  4. Processes for developing skills and values.
  5. Resources - commercial and teacher made.
  6. Social Sciences' curricula update.
  7. Utilising contemporary Social Science curriculum documents for long term planning.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Collaborative learning, Independent learning, Excursions.

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLesson sequence60%
ExaminationExamination40%

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

    Preparation Processes for the Secondary Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    SSE6623
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ekaterina THIVEOS

Description

Within the context of the principles of contemporary approaches to learning, this unit offers an in-depth study of various teacher preparation processes for teaching-learning in the Social Sciences at the lower secondary level. Emphasis will be on planning excursions, teaching and learning skills, values, civics and citizenship. Participants will explore web based curriculum materials suitable for the lower secondary years and utilise these in their preparation processes. Long term planning processes and techniques will be explored.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Determine, explain and analyse the contemporary curriculum documents of all lower secondary levels of the Social Sciences.
  2. Evaluate and utilise the curriculum resources to design a long term planning resource for lower secondary Social Sciences.
  3. Judge, identify and critique web based Social Sciences support materials and resources.
  4. Plan and apply reflective practice principles to analyse and refine short term learning plans.
  5. Plan and demonstrate competencies to generate learning units or tasks with a focus on skills, values and civics and citizenship education.

Unit Content

  1. Planning for learning in the Social Sciences, lesson plans for multi-level and single level classes.
  2. Planning processes for excursions, policies and issues for implementation.
  3. Preparation of teacher notes and teaching aids for lower secondary students.
  4. Processes for developing skills and values.
  5. Resources - commercial and teacher made.
  6. Social Sciences' curricula update.
  7. Utilising contemporary Social Science curriculum documents for long term planning.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Collaborative learning, Independent learning, Excursions.

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
AssignmentAssignment50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentLesson sequence60%
ExaminationExamination40%

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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