EDCU14033 - Geography

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit you will develop your professional knowledge and skills as a Geography educator. This involves interpreting and using relevant resources, including Geography curriculum, to extend your pedagogical content knowledge. You learn how Geography creates a bridge between the natural and social sciences. Your understanding of Geographical Inquiry as a key pedagogical approach to examine patterns and relationships within and between places is developed using integrative reflections to further improve both your teaching and student learning. The unit enhances your development as a beginning professional, and consolidates key aspects of your substantive professional knowledge, skills and dispositions.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 4
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisite: EDCU12039

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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2024

Term 1 - 2024 Profile
Online
Term 3 - 2024 Profile
Online
Term 1 - 2025 Profile
Bundaberg
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate 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.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Practical Assessment 50%
2. Practical and Written Assessment 50%

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

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 77.78% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 18% response rate.

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.

Source: Staff feedback
Feedback
Update the unit to V9 of the Australian Curriculum.
Recommendation
Update the Moodle site to reflect Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum.
Action Taken
The unit has now been completely revised to align with Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Zoom Tutorial time
Recommendation
Consistency with the scheduling of the Zoom tutorial.
Action Taken
This term the tutor offered additional sessions to support students who could not attend the scheduled Zoom tutorials.
Source: Student feedback
Feedback
Provide more visuals in Zoom sessions
Recommendation
Tutor to revise Zoom tutorial materials to include more visuals.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Evaluate the potential of ICTs for expanding learning opportunities and promoting purposeful engagement with geographical concepts and inquiry processes
  2. Review practices used to develop and support the safe, responsible and ethical use of digital information, tools and resources
  3. Critically evaluate professional learning and engagement to improve practice in Geographical education
  4. Synthesise understandings of the knowledge, practice and dispositions of a Geography educator.

Successful completion of this unit provides opportunities for students to engage with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Career Stage) focus areas of:

2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area

2.2 Content selection and organisation

2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

3.4 Select and use resources

3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs

4.1 Support student participation

4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically

6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs

6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice

6.4 Apply professional learning and improve student learning

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Practical Assessment • •
2 - Practical and Written Assessment • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Communication • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • • •
5 - Team Work • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • •
8 - Ethical practice •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Practical Assessment • • • • • • •
2 - Practical and Written Assessment • • • • • •