• Students should be aware of and apply the University policy on academic honesty (see: https://policies.mq.edu.au/document/view.php?id=3) 

• Unless a Special Consideration (see: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/special-consideration) request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of‚ 0 (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11:55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc).  

• Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic.  

• Please format assessments using 12-point font and 1.5 spacing. 

• All assessments are submitted electronically. Turnitin plagiarism detection software is used to check all written assessments. 

• Students can use Turnitin’s Originality Report as a learning tool to improve their academic writing if this option is made available in the unit. 

• Students should carefully check that they submit the correct file for an assessment as no re-submissions will be accepted after the due date and time, including instances where students upload an incorrect file in error. 

• Word limits are strictly applied. Work above the word limit will not be marked.  

• All assessments are marked using a clear marking scheme or a rubric. 

• Marking of all assessments is moderated by the Unit Convenor. 

• Applications for extensions must be made via AskMQ (https://ask.mq.edu.au/).  

• It is not the responsibility of unit staff to contact students who have failed to submit assessments. If you have any missing items of assessment, it is your responsibility to make contact with the unit convenor. 

A Note on AI Use in this Unit

AI cannot be used for quizzes. Your assignments cannot report content generated by a third party or AI sources. While AI tools (e.g. Multisearch, Google Scholar, ChatGPT and other generative AI tools)  can be useful sources of information and ideas it is fraudulent and a breach of acdemic integrity to pass off the content generated by these tools as your own writing and ideas. Please note that information or references generated by a third party or AI (e.g. Multisearch, Google Scholar, Chat GPT, etc.) needs to be checked for accuracy and reliability. AI and third party information generators are notorious for providing wrong, false, and incomplete information.

Units with Quiz Assessments 

Quizzes are an individual assessment task and MUST BE COMPLETED by each student individually. Similarities in responses between students will be checked and investigated for possible collusion.  Note that information generated by third parties or AI cannot be used for these quizzes in this unit.

University policy on grading 

Criteria for awarding grades for assessment tasks 

Assignments will be awarded grades ranging from HD to F according to guidelines set out in the University's Grading Policy. For Professional Experience (PEx) units the PE Report is marked as satisfactory or unsatisfactory and the Teaching Performance Assessment (in final PE units) is marked as not meets, meets or exceeds.  

Descriptive Criteria for awarding grades in the unit 

To meet the unit outcomes and successfully pass this unit, students should attempt all assessment tasks.  

Note: If you fail a unit with a professional experience component, the fail grade will be on your transcript irrespective of the timing of the placement. 

Withdrawing from this unit 

If you are considering withdrawing from this unit, please seek academic advice via https://ask.mq.edu.au before doing so as this unit may be a co-requisite or prerequisite for units in the following sessions and may impact your course progression. 

Results 

Results shown in iLearn, or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit https://ask.mq.edu.au 

Structure

The unit has 8-weeks of teaching. Each week there are TWO (2) recorded online lectures and ONE (1) tutorial. Tutorials are offered in two modes: a weekly face-to-face class on campus, or a weekly online class hosted on Zoom. You must register in one of these tutorial modes and attend your registered tutorial.

In the tutorial students will discuss issues and questions arising from the lectures and prescribed readings and will complete activities designed to reinforce key concepts. You are expected to base your tutorial contributions, any arguments or discussions on evidence from these readings, published research and other relevant material, particularly that supplied in the Unit. 

In both face to face and online modes all students are required to participate in small group activities, whole class discussion, to read the weekly material in advance, and to complete brief tasks either as individuals or in pairs. There is an expectation that cameras and microphones are turned on in Zoom during all online activities. Please ensure you have internet access to attend your Zoom class in an appriate location where you can speak aloud and participate in group discussions. e.g. public areas of the Library, are typically not an appropriate place to attend your Zoom class due to quiet space rules in the library.  

The weekly program for the course with the accompanying readings/ preparation is available on the unit iLearn site.

Required and Recommended Readings

Required readings are located in the Leganto tool in iLearn or in the library. 

Recommended text:  Duchesne, S., McMaugh, A., & Mackenzie, E. (2022). Educational psychology: for learning and teaching. (7th ed.) Cengage Learning Australia.

Other materials you will need

Some activities in this unit will require you to use one of your existing lesson plans and also refer to a sequence of related lessons on a topic. You will be required to bring these to class.

The iLearn site

This unit has a full web presence through iLearn available at https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/index.php.  Students will need regular access to a computer and the Internet to complete this unit. Weekly access to iLearn is compulsory for all students. Important assessment information will be posted here, as will other relevant unit notices and materials, including assessment tasks such as Quizzes or Tests which are to be completed in the iLearn site. 

Weekly recorded lectures are available on the iLearn site through the ECHO360 lecture component. You must listen to all lectures as the content is mandated content for new teachers and is therefore assessable. 

Access and technical assistance: Please do NOT contact the Unit Convenor regarding iLearn technical help.

Assistance is available from the OneHelp IT Helpdesk

Ph: 9850 4357 or 1800 67 4357

Email: help.mq.edu.au.

On Campus: Ground floor at 18 Wally’s Walk

Student skills and technology use

• Internet access: The online iLearn site contains materials for this unit; it is also required for the online submission of all Assessment Tasks, and for the use of Turnitin submission for ALL tasks. 
• Software and Apps: Students are required to use appropriate software or apps to present their assignments. If you are directed to presnet information using a specific form of software you must you this software.Students have free access to a range of software including Microsoft Office and Zoom https://students.mq.edu.au/support/technology/software 
• Turnitin is accessed via an assignment submission link created for each assignment. You are responsible for ensuring you have a suitable internet connection to upload your assignments. 

Please see the full Unit Schedule in iLearn. 

The unit will change from year year and this will include some lecture topics, reading and tutorial activities. Assessment tasks topics and foci will change each year. 

The 5Rs Framework, developed by the School of Education at Macquarie University, is embedded throughout your teacher education course.

Your use of the 5Rs Framework will help you develop the capabilities that will make your teaching career sustainable and fulfilling.

In this unit, you will learn using the 5Rs framework in the following important ways:

Resilience: This unit explicitly teaches concepts of resilience and students will interact with these concepts; assessment and feedback is a formative process that requires the competencies of self-regulation, self-efficacy and support seeking, which are critical components of our capacity to be resilient. 

Reflexive: This unit teaches key concepts of adolescent development and learning in a reflexive stance that requires students to interact with and engage with their own beliefs and understandings of adolescence. 

Responsive: Activities and tasks require students to practice the application of concepts to teaching and learning activities and demonstrate practical and reflexive engagement with concepts. 

Ready to learn: This unit contains a condensed structure to accomodate professional experience placements and therefore students must be ready for a higher level of weekly activity which is supported and scaffolded with a structured iLearn site however they must demonstrate readiness to learn by scheduling their own listening time for online lectures/podcasts, completion of weekly readings and activties, and preparedness for tutorials and assessment tasks. Assessment tasks support readiness skills by promoting revision of weekly learning materials and readiness to engage in research so support evidence-based practice. 

Research Engaged: You will directly engage with research to address practice-related questions and develop your own practice-related applications in assessment tasks. Unit readings and assessments tasks draw on published and/or peer reviewed research and students are offered a choice of assessment topics with which to demonstrate research engagement.