Sunday, May 1, 2016

Assignment 2: Unit plan background and template



Creative teaching PowerPoint

Hi all

Here is the information for our next assignment, due on 5 June. This assignment is worth 60% and will require plenty of thought from you all to develop quality assignments. 
Here are the links to the key documents:

1. Assignment 2 document and template to download from Dropbox.

2. The TfEL learning design blank template.

3. The PowerPoint for Assessment 2.

4. The rubric for Assessment 2.



Here is the info for the assignment.


Assessment 2 - Unit Plan

Go to https://lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=7649 for assessment 2 details and documents to support.
Background
The purpose of this assignment is to introduce you to structuring learning experiences in Humanities and Social Sciences. Planning for student learning is one of the key elements of teachers’ work and as such consumes considerable amounts of teachers’ out of classroom time.

Teachers often plan year and/or term overviews of topics that enable them to sequence topics, connect topics across learning areas or connect to specific events that occur during the year.

From these overviews teachers develop unit plans based on identified content descriptions and achievement standards from the Australian Curriculum learning areas/subjects. The unit plans describe in detail the learning students will engage with, teaching strategies/sequences, when student learning will be assessed, key teacher and student resources and how this topic may connect (if at all) to other learning areas.

Teachers employ a wide range of formats to document their planning, many of which are teacher designed and generic. The learning and teaching sequence is planned and documented on such unit planners.

Description and the learning criteria

For this assignment you are required to plan, document and present your plan for learning and a sequence of teaching activities for at least two content descriptions from one of the sub-strands/subjects of the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) learning area.  The plan must also be structured around the stages of the Australian Curriculum: HaSS inquiry process and incorporate a range of the skills described in the Content Descriptions for the Inquiry strand of the curriculum. 
In the rationale section for your unit plan you must refer to the HaSS value focus for your unit i.e. in what ways does the chosen content description/s resonate with the HaSS values covered in this course - the values of democratic processes, social justice, ecological sustainability and peace.
The word limit is 2700 words.

Please note the following in relation to your unit plan:
  •       Your unit is to be for a 5 week teaching period.

  •       The plan must be structured around the stages of the Australian Curriculum: Hass Inquiry Process and incorporate a range of the skills described in the Content Descriptions for the Inquiry strand of the curriculum.

  •       The selected Content Descriptions and sequence of teaching activities must be planned for a particular year level, i.e. year 6 or year 8 etc.

  •       You are encouraged to use the same Content Description/s for assignment 2 as you did for assignment 1. However, if you wish to explore another content description/s, or even HaSS subject/sub-strand – just have a talk to me to discuss possibilities.

  •       The TfEL Learning Design template is to be attached to the unit plan – this provides a learning plan overview, in terms of what the students know, what they are to learn and how will you know what they have learned.

  •      Early in your unit plan you must clearly identify the achievement standards aspects you will be assessing during this unit – these should be the basis of the assessment rubric you design for this unit.

  •       The sequence of teaching activities must be resource rich and interactive in nature – using creative teaching idea.

  •       The unit plan must reflect constructivist learning.

  •       The unit planner must be informed by and refer to teacher resources that provide teacher background knowledge (such as readings, printed teacher resources books, websites and teacher journals). Resources that provide activity ideas (student resources) need to be listed as part of the planner as do resources that describe teaching and learning (pedagogical resources) in HASS.

  •       In terms of assessment you must attach the rubric for the unit (using the achievement standard aspects identified for the unit) and two summative assessment tasks to the unit plan.

  •       The teaching and learning program for the chosen topic must use the attached Unit Planner and all sections must be addressed in detail and referenced appropriately. 


Assessment

The criteria used to assess this component will be the extent to which you can describe and document the learning focus, teaching approaches and academic conventions (see attached rubric) – have a close look at the rubric to make sure you are aware of what you need to do.

This assignment needs to be submitted using Gradebook. There is a 5% per day penalty for late submission of this assignment via Gradebook.

This assignment is worth 60% of the course assessment. Please note that to ensure all students have produced original planners and that the University’s Assessment Policy has been adhered to, copies of planners across all classes will be viewed and compared when moderating grades.

LTU referencing site

Referencing is an important part of academic writing.  The Learning and Teaching Unit has assembled a wealth of resources on their referencing resource site regarding referencing. For this course, you will be using Harvard UniSA referencing.  https://lo.unisa.edu.au/course/view.php?id=3839

Assignments will be returned to you via Gradebook two - three weeks after submission.


So what are you submitting on 5 June?
  •      The Unit plan completed in detail – expand as you require but use the template available on HumsRus at 
  • .     Attach the TfEL Learning Design document – blank available at
  •       Attach the assessment rubric for the unit. 
  •       Attach two summative assessment task, that clearly show what achievement standards aspects are being assessed.



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