General Submission Information

• Please format assessments using 12-point font and 1.5 spacing.
• All assessments must be submitted electronically. Turnitin plagiarism detection software is used to check all written assessments. It is the responsibility of all students to ensure that their submitted work is in a format compatible with Turnitin software for plagiarism checking.
• Submissions must meet the required file type and formatting specifications outlined in the assessment guidelines. Failure to submit work in an acceptable format may result in delays in processing your submission and potential penalties for non-compliance with assessment requirements. If you are unsure about the file format or have technical difficulties, it is your responsibility to seek assistance before the submission deadline.
• Students should be careful to 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. 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 contact the unit convenor.
• 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.
• Word limits are strictly applied. Work above the word limit will not be marked.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Students should be aware of and apply the University policy on academic integrity (see: https://policies.mq.edu.au/document/view.php?id=3). Any student suspected of using unauthorised AI in an assignment will be referred to the Faculty of Arts Discipline Committee. Penalties can include reduced marks for an assessment, being awarded a '0' for a task, failing an entire unit, or being excluded from a course of study. Please see each assessment task description/rubric for expectations about AI.

AI Use in this Unit

While AI tools can assist in searching for information and refining writing, assignments in this unit must not include content directly generated by AI or third-party sources. Any information or references obtained from AI or AI-enhanced tools must be independently verified for accuracy and reliability. These tools are known to produce incorrect, false, or incomplete information, and relying on them without proper verification may compromise the quality of your work and, eventually, your learning outcomes.

Special Consideration / Late Penalties

Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day an assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends) (see: https://students.mq.edu.au/study/assessment-exams/special-consideration).

Applications for extensions must be made via Service Connect. 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 assessments (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. A Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic.

Marking

All assessments are marked using a rubric. The marking of all assessments is moderated by the Unit Convenor.

University Policy on Grading

Assignments will be awarded grades ranging from HD to F according to guidelines set out in the University's Grading System and University Assessment Policy.

To attain a pass or higher grade in Professional Experience a student must obtain a satisfactory in both the Professional Experience component and a pass or higher grade in the academic component. For Professional Experience units, the Professional Experience Evaluation Report is marked as Satisfactory or Unsatisfactory. The Macquarie Teaching Performance Assessment (MQTPA - in final WIL/PEx units) is marked as Not met, Met or Exceeds. 

Results

Results shown in iLearn, or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed because 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 Service Connect.

Withdrawing from this unit

If you are considering withdrawing from this unit, please seek academic advice via Service Connect 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.

Structure and Resource

This unit is worth 10 credit points, which equates to 150 hours of work; therefore, you should expect to commit an average of 10-12 hours of your time per week to this unit, including all scheduled and unscheduled activities, as well as preparing and executing the assessment tasks.

Weekly lectures and readings

The unit content is framed around a weekly topic. There are pre-recorded lectures and prescribed readings for each week's topic. Each week's lecture and lecture slides will be available to view and download the week before your tutorial. Your face-to-face or online weekly tutorials consolidate and reinforce these topic materials. 

Weekly tutorials

Attendance and participation in tutorials is expected. Please ensure that you schedule time to engage with lectures and readings before your tutorial. You are required to bring the thoughts you have taken from your lectures and readings as a basis for tutorial discussions. 

Students enrolled in 1.5-hour online tutorials are expected to spend 30 minutes completing tutorial preparation tasks before weekly tutorials. Students enrolled in 2-hour on-campus tutorials will complete these tasks during the tutorials. 

Required and Recommended Texts

All readings are freely available via Leganto on the unit iLearn site.

Required texts

Rouse, E (2020). Partnerships in the Early Years. Australia: Oxford University Press. 

Recommended texts

See details in weekly iLearn sections.

Information about the Unit iLearn Site 

This unit has a full web presence through iLearn. Information for students about access to the online component of this unit is available at https://ilearn.mq.edu.au/login/index.php. You will need to enter your student username and password.

Please do NOT contact the Unit Convenor regarding iLearn technical help. Assistance is available from the IT Helpdesk via email at onehelp@mq.edu.au or Ph: 9850 4357 or 1800 67 4357. On Campus: Ground floor at 18 Wally’s Walk.

Topics to be covered are:  

There will not be lectures or tutorials from Weeks 9 to 13 due to Professional Experience placements.

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:

• Reflexive - by interviewing a family you will explore and challenge your own views.
• Responsive - in your case study, the final section of the assessment asks you to outline impleications for the educaitonal setting based on what you found out about the family you interviewed.
• Research engaged - you will engage with the research literarure to inform the questions you will ask in the interview with the family, as well as draw on contemporary research in the write up of the case study.