Curriculum - Assessment, Planning and Reporting (10425.1)

Required texts

Required:

Highly Recommended

Brady, L. & Kennedy, K. (2019). Curriculum Construction. (6th ed.). Pearson.

Wiggins, G. & McTighe, J. (2011). The Understanding by Design guide to creating high-quality units (2nd ed.). Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD).

Recommended Readings

McTighe, J. (2020). The fundamentals of Understanding by Design. ASCD

McTighe, J. & Wiggins, G. (2013). Essential Questions: Opening doors to student understanding. ASCD

McTighe, J. & Willis, J. (2019). Upgrade your teaching: Understanding by Design meets Neuroscience. ASCD

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Approval of extenuating circumstances will be dependent upon the production of supporting documentation and at the discretion of the unit convener.

All assessment items required to be submitted online must be submitted via the appropriate Canvas drop box. It is the student's responsibility to upload the correct and corresponding draft or assessment item to the right submission section. Assignments must be submitted in a format accessible to the assessor(s), as stated on the relevant canvas site. If the unit convener and/or tutor are unable to access a submission, or if no submission has been made by the due date and time, a standard late penalty of 10% of the total marks possible for the task may be applied per day, for three days, after which the submission will receive a score of ‘0' in keeping with UC's Assessment Policy.

LESSON PLANS: When developing your lesson plans, it is encouraged that you are using your skills in lesson planning and design to create engaging and rich lesson resources. Using materials from commercial sites such as TPT, Twinkl, Sparkle Box etc. is not desirable in this unit. If you adapt resources from commercial sites and sources, please note this in your lesson planning and resource development.

Artificial Intelligence

Students are permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) as indicated in the assessment instructions for this unit. 

GenAI may only be used in authorised ways when completing assessments at UC. This means that GenAI can only be used for an assessment when:

1. the Unit Convener has authorised GenAI use for that assessment
2. the student uses GenAI in the way that the assessment instructions allow
3. the student fully acknowledges their use of GenAI, with proper citations, references and a GenAI Acknowledgement Statement in line with the assessment instructions.

Where the assessment instructions do not specifically state that GenAI may be used and how, then its use is not permitted for that assessment. Students must still provide the required GenAI Acknowledgement Statement to indicate whether GenAI has or has not been used in the preparation of the assessment. If unsure, students should seek advice from the Unit Convener.

It is strongly recommended that students keep records of the development process for all works submitted for assessment, or drafts of work submitted for a work-in-progress review, in a learning portfolio or equivalent. Failure to provide evidence of the development process for assessment may influence a suspicion of GenAI misuse or other forms of academic misconduct. 

 The GenAI for Students Library Guide provides further information, including how to reference GenAI.

Special assessment requirements

An aggregate mark of 50% and Satisfactory completion of a 10-day Professional Experience Placement, as evidenced by a satisfactory final report, are required to pass the unit.

Provision of valid documentation

Please note that the University takes student conduct very seriously. All documentation provided to University staff must be valid and the provision of fraudulent documentation carries with it potentially serious consequences, including suspension and/or exclusion from the University. Note that all allegations of student misconduct will be referred to the Associate Dean for Education (ADE) as a prescribed authority for investigation.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

An indicative breakdown of workload for the unit is as follows:

Tutorial Activities: 12 hours

Clinic Hours: 8 hours

Weekly readings and Pre-tutorial Activities: 30 hours

Assessment preparation: 100 hours

Professional Experience Placement: 10 days

Participation requirements

Successful completion of the professional experience component is crital to success in the whole unit. Refer to assessment (5a) on the Canvas site for further details. Students must make themselves familiar with the processes and policies of professional experience.

Participation in ‘school based' tutorial classes is a compulsory condition of this unit, and attendance will be recorded. You must participate in 100% of the ‘school based' tutorial classes to pass this unit. In the event that you cannot attend your assigned session due to illness or extreme circumstances, you must provide appropriate documentation to the Unit Convener as soon as possible. In the case of sessions missed due to illness or extreme circumstances, both the academic content and the professional experience component are required to be made up. More than two documented absences may lead to failure of the unit due to non-completion.

*Note: This unit commences with weeks 1 on campus (see timetable for rooms) and weeks 4 to 7 will be school-based to meet accreditation requirements.

Successful engagement with all learning activities in this accredited Initial Teacher Education course is necessary to demonstrate that you have met the Graduate career stage of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL, 2011).

There is a strong correlation between participation and success in higher education. Your participation and engagement with online activities will enhance your understanding of this unit's content and therefore the quality of your assessment responses. Lack of participation may result in your inability to satisfactorily pass assessment items.

Required IT skills

IT skills in the use of the Google Suite; Google Classrooms, Web-based educational applications and Canvas are required.

Work placement, internships or practicums

This unit involves work integrated learning (WIL): Placement. Students must adhere to University policy during WIL activities, including the Student Conduct Rules 2018, the WIL policy and WIL procedure, and the Assessment policy, and Assessment procedure. For teaching degrees, students need to ensure they have their WWVP (ACT) and  Working with Children Card (NSW), or equivalent if undertaking a placement in another state or territory, uploaded to InPlace. Students must ensure they are registered with TQI as a Pre-service teacher. 

This unit involves a 10 day placement and therefore, student responsibilities are required in addition to those described in section 6. Workplace learning requires strict adherence to professional practice principles and ethics. School student and staff confidentiality must always be maintained (refer policies on ATES - Professional Experience Handbook, ACT ED Teachers' Code of Professional Practice (or equivalent) and Student Conduct Rules), including for assessment items such as reports or essays. This applies to staff and patrons of any outside agency where an internship or other WIL activity is taking place. The professional nature of this unit also requires 100% participation at all learning activities (lectures, workshops, tutorial, practicals etc. as scheduled – see section 3) for the successful completion of this unit (also see section 6c). If attendance requirements cannot be satisfied (e.g., timetable clash), it is recommended that you contact the Academic Programs Team to discuss re-scheduling this unit. 

Students are also required to complete an Acceptable use of ICT resources form in order to access ICT resources in their placement school. A hardcopy of the form will be distributed and collected by your tutor early in your first Placement unit. Students are required to complete and submit a 'UC Student Acknowledgement Form' before undertaking their first Placement.  A link to this form is available on your canvas site. Students are rquired to complete the WIL Ready module on Canvas prior to their first Placement.

Additional information

Use of student email account

The University Email policy states that "students wishing to contact the University via email regarding administrative or academic matters need to send the email from the University account for identity verification purposes".  Therefore all unit enquiries should be emailed using a student university email account. Students should contact servicedesk@canberra.edu.au if they have any issues accessing their university email account.

Theoretical foundations: The teaching and learning approach is underpinned by social constructivist and social learning theories where students are provided with engaging learning activities for discussion and negotiation. 

Research Led Education: This unit involves work-integrated learning. There are active researchers delivering this unit who are able to engage students in deep and active learning and transmit to students their passion for the research they are carrying out.

• Semester 1, 2025, Placement, UC - Canberra, Bruce (228468)
• Semester 1, 2024, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (218985)
• Semester 1, 2023, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (213026)
• Semester 1, 2022, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (206001)
• Semester 1, 2021, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (200970)
• Semester 1, 2020, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (194240)
• Semester 1, 2019, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (191569)