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

This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.

Past Exams

All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.

This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 88.24% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 17.17% 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.

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

1. Plan effective learning sequences using appropriate content knolwedge.
2. Plan effective learning sequences using knowledge of student learning to promote engagement.
3. Use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning sequences.
4. Apply knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance and structure of the content and teaching strategies appropriate to the teaching area and curriculum framework.
5. Reflect critically on professional practice outlining strengths and professinal challenges.
6. Apply constructive feedback to improve professional practice and student learning outcomes.
7. Use the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers to monitor learning and improve professional practice in reponse to feedback, self-evaluation and reflection.

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Level) demonstrated: 

Students will have opportunities to demonstrate the following aspects of the Australian Professional Standards during the twenty-five day placement.

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)

3.1 Establish challenging learning goals

3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs

3.3 Use teaching strategies

3.4 Select and use resources

3.5 Use effective classroom communication

4.1 Support student participation

4.2 Manage classroom activities

4.3 Manage challenging behaviour

4.4 Maintain student safety

4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically

5.1 Assess student learning

5.2 Provide feedback to students on their learning

5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgements

5.4 Interpret student data

6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs

6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice

6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice

7.1 Meet professional ethics and responsibilities

• Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
• Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes