EDF2088 · Planning and assessing for teaching and learning

Overview

This unit is designed to enhance your teaching practice. The unit focuses on the art of planning effectively, learner teaching and learning experiences, formal and informal assessments and data utilization, drawing on both theoretical insights and practical experiences. Within this unit you will have opportunities to design, deliver and refine teaching plans and assessment rubrics in response to peer feedback. By engaging in collaborative planning to foster inclusive and supportive learning environments you will develop knowledge of current curriculum; research-based assessment practices; the teaching and learning cycle; how to develop learning goals, scaffold and engage learners; and ways to incorporate relevant assessment strategies into a lesson. In addition, you will explore different ways to keep effective records of student achievement to monitor growth over time and for reporting to students, parents and carers. Overall, the unit is designed to enhance your ability to plan effectively and use assessment to support and improve student learning, fostering dynamic and responsive teaching practices.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate an understanding of curriculum documents and how they are used to inform planning and assessment for teaching and learning along with student data. Demonstrate an understanding of curriculum documents and how they are used to inform planning and assessment for teaching and learning along with student data
2. critique a range of planning and assessment practices (including ICT) to support well-developed planning and assessment practices and learning opportunities for all learners, and communicate outcomes effectively and adjust practice accordingly
3. critically evaluate the effectiveness of implemented lesson plans and assessment practices and utilise this knowledge to refine and improve planning and assessment practices
4. demonstrate connections between assessment, reporting and planning for teaching and learning
5. design and construct a specific marking rubric that is informed by research literature and addresses content and process, evaluate the effectiveness of it using student work samples and make informed modifications
6. demonstrate capacity to work effectively in small groups to analyse planning documents, multiple sources of student data, moderate assessments, and suggest ways to improve teacher practice and evaluate the impact of teaching on learning.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.