ECL310 - Multiliterate Learners in Middle Years Environments

Unit details

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2022 unit information

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Last updated: 4 March 2022

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, CBD*

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: Joanne Quick
Cohort rule:

Students must be enrolled in course E200, E330, E334 or E359

Previously:

Developing Language and Literacy: The Middle Years

Prerequisite:

For E359 students must have passed unit ECL210

For E334 students must have passed unit ECE330

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 1-hour class per week
1 x 2-hour seminar per week. Learning experiences are also via CloudDeakin

Note:

*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery

Content

This is the third in a 4-unit sequence designed to prepare contemporary primary school teachers of language, literacy and literatrure. This unit examines the development of speaking and listening, reading and writing, and viewing and creating in the middle years of primary schooling (years three to six). It explores print literacy development in the middle years of school, together with a range of broader literacies, including digital, multimodal, and visual literacies.

In this unit, pre-service teachers engage with a variety of literacy learning theories, assessments, and pedagogical approaches, learning to justify how, when, and why to utilise different approaches across their classroom programs. They learn to plan effective lessons, units, and programmes for diverse middle years language, literacy, and literature learners.

Through weekly blog posts, pre-service teachers make connections between their unit understandings and their personal literacy learning, and practice ethical and professional online communication.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Demonstrate knowledge of key theories and practices associated with teaching literacy in the middle years

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
ULO2

Assess students in the middle years, set learning goals providing achievable challenges, and plan for and implement teaching strategies for those students

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO6: Self-management
ULO3

Design, plan, evaluate and refine a major lesson sequence utilising children’s literature to teach and assess language, literacy, and literature effectively

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO6: Self-management

GLO7: Teamwork
ULO4

Reflect upon, evaluate and effectively communicate planning rationales for teaching, learning and assessment

GLO2: Communication

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO6: Self-management
ULO5

Identify and implement strategies to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in the teaching profession and middle years literacy classrooms

 GLO3: Digital literacy

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)		 Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Writing assessment and planning profile 1600 words
or equivalent		 40% Information not yet available
Assessment 2 - Literature-based planning sequence 1600 words
or equivalent		 40% Information not yet available
Assessment 3 - Wordpress blog 800 words
or equivalent		 20% Information not yet available

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ECL310
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.

Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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