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

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Term 3 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 50.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 11.11% 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. Formulate assessment activities for the purpose of monitoring student achievement
2. Apply strategies that modify learning sequences, pedagogy, content and assessment in response to individual and class profiling data
3. Appraise the content of a proposed learning sequence to plan activities that overcome possible difficulties or make links to the prior knowledge of students with varying abilities
4. Select teaching methods with an appropriate level of teacher control and student responsibility to scaffold learning for students and groups of varying ability levels
5. Write explicit learning goals and task-specific standards for the purpose of explicit instruction and making consistent judgments on the quality of students’ work
6. Analyse work samples and assessment information to support the delivery of feedback and design interventions to address specific learning issues
7. Participate in collegial partnerships to improve practice and formulate responsive approaches to identified learning needs
8. Critically reflect on professional learning using feedback, self-evaluation and the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

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

1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities

2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area

2.2 Content selection and organisation

2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting

2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies

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

3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs

4.1 Support student participation

4.2 Manage classroom activities

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

5.5 Report on student achievement

6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs

6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice

7.4 Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities

6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice

6.4 Apply professional learning and improve student learning

7.1 Meet professional ethics and responsibilities

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