Overview
This unit develops pre-service teachers’ knowledge and understanding of the content and disciplinary approaches to teaching and learning in the four Australian Curriculum Learning Areas that constitute the Humanities and Social Sciences in primary school settings. You will develop an applied understanding of the integral place of ICTs in contemporary geographical inquiries related to physical and human aspects of place and space using a Geographical inquiry approach through the Australian Curriculum: Geography (Year 1-6). You will reflect on the knowledge base necessary to structure historical inquiry and teach historical literacy skills that support learners in developing evidence-informed explanations of past events through the Australian Curriculum: History (Year 1- 6). You will investigate political and legal systems, and explore the nature of citizenship, diversity and identity in contemporary society through exploring the Australian Curriculum: Civics and Citizenship (Year 3-6). You will develop consumer and financial literacy skills, enterprising capabilities, and the ability to make responsible and informed decisions through engagement with the Australian Curriculum: Business and Economics (Year 5-6). Learning and assessment activities in this unit promote further development of teachers as beginning professionals by consolidating their understandings, practical skills and dispositions for innovation and evaluation of classroom practice, planning and assessment.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 3 - 2021
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback
Double study load doesn't do justice to the depth and importance of HASS. Also, the quantity of information is surely too much for just one unit. Maybe this course could somehow be split into two units so students are not overwhelmed with information.
These comments are reflected each year. Unfortunately, the structure and intensive nature of both the Masters course and the HASS unit itself does not allow for more time or for the unit to be split. Feedback ratings indicate that students are still engaged with the unit despite the issues of intensity. The lecturer will continue to explain that this unit is designed to provide an overview of teaching in the area of HASS and provide resources for further engagement.
- Identify key ideas, contemporary influences and conflicting perspectives on curriculum development in the humanties and social science learning areas
- Analyse the content of the humanities and social science learning areas to identify implications for practice and professional learning
- Synthesise understandings of the knowledge, practice and dispositions of teaching in the humanities and social science
- Select source materials, activities and teaching strategies for learning in the humanities and social science learning areas that develop students’ empathy and understanding of their world; focus on societies, events, movements and developments; and promote learning as an active and informed citizen
- Design inquiry learning that integrates knowledge, understanding and skills from the curriculum
- Identify ICTs that encourage student participation and interaction and provide opportunities for accessing, constructing and communicating knowledge beyond the immediate environment
Successful completion of this unit provides opportunities for you to demonstrate the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers focus areas of:
1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
1.2 Understand how students learn
1.3 Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.2 Content selection and organisation
2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting
2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
3.3 Use teaching strategies
3.4 Select and use resources
4.1 Support student participation
6.4 Apply professional learning and improve student learning
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||
2 - Group Work - 50% |
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
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2 - Communication | ||||||
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | ||||||
4 - Research | ||||||
5 - Self-management | ||||||
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | ||||||
7 - Leadership | ||||||
8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures |
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
1 - Written Assessment - 50% | ||||||||
2 - Group Work - 50% |
Textbooks
Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences: History, Geography, Economics & Citizenship in the Australian Curriculum
Edition: 7 (2020)
Authors: Rob Gilbert, Libby Tudball, Peter Brett (Editors)
Cengage Learning Australia
South Melbourne South Melbourne , Victoria , Australia
ISBN: 9780170424165
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
This is also an ebook of this text available for students who prefer an electronic version.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 7th Edition (APA 7th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
k.menzie-ballantyne@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Topic 1: Humanities and Social Sciences
Topic 2: Inquiry Learning
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Chapters 1 & 2 (pp. 30-39 & 51-55)
Chapter 4
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Topic 3: History - Part 1
Topic 4: History - Part 2
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Chapters 10 & 11
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Topic 5: Geography - Part 1
Topic 6: Geography - Part 2
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Topic 7: Civics and Citizenship (years 3 to 6)
Topic 8: Economics and Business (years 5 & 6)
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Chapter 14
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Topic 9: Incorporating the Cross Curriculum Priorities into HASS
Topic 10: Developing the General Capabilities through HASS
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Chapters 2 (pp. 41-50), 5 (131-138), 7 & 8
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Topic 12: Using ICTs and exploring useful resources
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Structure of the Term:
Please, note that the content of Term 3 units is delivered in various ways (some in intensive mode over the first 6 weeks of the Term). Each unit’s timetable was created to best deliver its unique content and prepare you to complete assessment tasks effectively, as well as allow some ‘downtime’ prior to the commencement of the placement for Professional Praxis 3 and the commencement of university Term 1 2022.
To allow this to happen, some on-line Zoom Tutorial sessions will be conducted over 6 weeks straight with a class occurring in ‘non-teaching week’ - That is, Week 1 – 4, Non-Teaching Week & Week 5
Due to the nature of a diverse unit delivery, it is important that you organise your personal diary in order for you to keep up and realise that you should double the usual time allocation to a unit during the intensive mode period for those units.
Please, see the Moodle site for each unit for further information.
1 Written Assessment
This task requires you to analyse the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) curriculum in terms of the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Education Declaration's goal that all young Australians be active and informed members of their local and global communities.
For this task you will need to examine Goal 2 of the Declaration (outlined on pages 6 to 8) and analyse the aims, structure, content and achievement standards of the HASS curriculum to determine how they are addressing this goal.
Your response should be no more than 2000 words and should be organised according to the headings in steps 1 to 5 outlined below, using the questions provided as guidance. You must include references to the curriculum, unit materials and other readings to support your discussion and evaluation.
Format for developing your assessment response
1. Introduction
Overall introduction to the curriculum and how it attempts to address the goal of active and informed community membership.
2. Organisation of the curriculum document
· How is the curriculum structured?
· What content, concepts and skills are specified as the focus for learning?
· How is the content arranged to specify when it will be learned?
· What are the intended outcomes of the learning?
· How will learning be assessed?
3. Social, political and cultural influences
Identify any key social, political or cultural influences that you think have informed the development of the curriculum and explain how it responds to the priorities of learning in the 21st Century, globalised world. Discuss any problems or issues that might affect the learning outcomes for different student groups as a result of these influences.
4. View of learners, learning and teaching
Summarise the view of learners and learning embedded in the curriculum. What learning theories are evident? What role is implied for teachers? How might teachers’ professional learning influence their approach to the curriculum and their students’ outcomes? How does the curriculum prepare learners for transition from schooling to the world of work and participation in wider society?
5. Evaluation
Evaluate the success of the curriculum in terms of meeting Goal 2 of the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Declaration and addressing the needs of diverse student groups and individuals.
Week 5 Tuesday (14 Dec 2021) 11:45 pm AEST
Feedback on this assessment will be provided in sufficient time to allow for academic support and advice as necessary to inform students’ responses to the next assessment task.
Knowledge of the content and structure of the Humanities and Social Sciences curriculum
Understanding of social, political or cultural influences on curriculum development
Understanding of the view of learners and learning embedded in the curriculum
Understanding of the implication of teachers' professional learning on student outcomes
Evaluation of the success of the curriculum in meeting Goal 2 of the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) curriculum
Use of academic writing style and APA referencing
- Identify key ideas, contemporary influences and conflicting perspectives on curriculum development in the humanties and social science learning areas
- Analyse the content of the humanities and social science learning areas to identify implications for practice and professional learning
- Synthesise understandings of the knowledge, practice and dispositions of teaching in the humanities and social science
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
2 Group Work
You may undertake this assessment individually or in a pair
Select year level 3, 4, 5 or 6 from the Australian Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum.
Adapt an inquiry question from your chosen year level or create your own. Use this question to shape an integrated inquiry that investigates one knowledge and understanding content descriptor from each strand relevant to that year level, (for example Year 4: History (ACHASSK083), Geography (ACHASSK089) and Civics and Citizenship (ACHASSK093) and overtly focuses on one interdisciplinary concept (for example, place and space).
Select four sources (primary or secondary) that you think would be effective in engaging learners in an inquiry to answer this question. Then identify resources and activities, including appropriate ICTs, you would use to help students analyse, evaluate and pose questions on the sources you have chosen and collaborate, in both online and classroom contexts.
You must provide bibliographic details or copies of the chosen sources, resources and activities and justify their selection in terms of answering the inquiry question and developing the target content descriptors and interdisciplinary concept. In addition you must show how each of the four groupings of a source, resources and activities develop one of the inquiry and skills content descriptors in your chosen year level (for example: Year 4, questioning, (ACHASSI073)).
You must also outline a number of assessment strategies that could be used to make judgements about the students’ knowledge, understandings and skill development throughout the inquiry process. The assessment strategies should include formative and informal processes and a suggested summative assessment tool.
Your Inquiry may be presented in a form of your choice (e.g. webpage, concept map, powerpoint, table, etc).
Week 10 Monday (24 Jan 2022) 11:45 pm AEST
Feedback on this final assessment response will be provided following moderation and prior to the Date of Certification of Grades for the term.
Selection of sources, resources and activities that reflect content, concept and skills of the curriculum
Selection of sources, resources and activities that develop students’ empathy and understanding of their world
Selection of sources, resources and activities that support inclusive classroom practice
Selection of sources, resources and activities that promote active and informed community membership
Application of appropriate teaching strategies for inquiry-based learning
Understanding of the use of ICTs to promote collaborative learning and support inquiry
- Analyse the content of the humanities and social science learning areas to identify implications for practice and professional learning
- Synthesise understandings of the knowledge, practice and dispositions of teaching in the humanities and social science
- Select source materials, activities and teaching strategies for learning in the humanities and social science learning areas that develop students’ empathy and understanding of their world; focus on societies, events, movements and developments; and promote learning as an active and informed citizen
- Design inquiry learning that integrates knowledge, understanding and skills from the curriculum
- Identify ICTs that encourage student participation and interaction and provide opportunities for accessing, constructing and communicating knowledge beyond the immediate environment
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
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