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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
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.
