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EDSE11024 - Teaching Youth

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Youth is the period between childhood and adult age. Teaching youth requires a particular pedagogical approach where learned information must be meaningful and links to the world beyond the classroom. Understanding youth is the focus of this unit, in particular the role secondary school teachers have on developing effective, useful and efficient tactics that in any discipline area can be used to increase student understanding and improve overall achievement and motivation. Pre-service teachers will be challenged to question the role of formal secondary schooling and address their own preconceptions about schooling in the 21st Century, in particular strategies that promote teaching today’s youth. Pre-service teachers will also develop effective communication skills to engage in successful relationships with youth through demonstrating personal literacy and numeracy competence.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 1
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 1
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the 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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2016

Term 1 - 2017 Profile
Bundaberg
Distance
Mackay
Noosa
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2018 Profile
Bundaberg
Distance
Mackay
Noosa
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2019 Profile
Bundaberg
Mackay
Noosa
Online
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2020 Profile
Bundaberg
Mackay
Noosa
Online
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2021 Profile
Bundaberg
Mackay City
Online
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2022 Profile
Bundaberg
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2023 Profile
Bundaberg
Mackay
Online
Rockhampton
Term 1 - 2024 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. Written Assessment 50%
2. Online Test 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

Past Exams

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 82.35% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 17.71% 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: Verbal communications
Feedback
Academic staff are approachable and supportive
Recommendation
Maintain level of support for students.
Action Taken
Level of student support was maintained by the Unit Coordinator and Tutors.
Source: SUTE
Feedback
Review the usefulness of feedback.
Recommendation
Unit Coordinator to review feedback quality on assessment tasks and consistency of communication with students by staff throughout the unit.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

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

  1. Examine the complex nature of teaching youth.
  2. Challenge contemporary thinking about teaching youth.
  3. Evaluate personal ethical dilemmas when teaching 21st Century youth.
  4. Apply personal competence in literacy and numeracy to model effective reading, writing, spelling, oral language and numerate thinking for youth.

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Level) demonstrated:

1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students

1.2 Understand how students learn

2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies

4.1 Support student participation

6.2 Engage in professional learning 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 - Written Assessment
2 - Online Test
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
7 - Cross Cultural 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 - Written Assessment
2 - Online Test