Required texts

Revised Ed Value Pack from Oxford University Press. This should be available through The School Locker also. 

This value pack includes the following two texts:

• Dianne Siemon, Elizabeth Warren, Kim Beswick, Rhonda Faragher, Jodie Miller, Marj Horne, Dan Jazby, & Margarita Breed. (2021) Teaching Mathematics: Foundations to Middle Years (3rd ed.) 
• Peter Sullivan, Pat Lilburn (2017) Open Ended Maths Activities Revised Edition

This value pack includes the new edition of the Siemon et al. text. Readings will be indicated for both the 3rd and 2nd editions of the text. 

The 2nd edition of the main text, Teaching Mathematics: Foundations to Middle Years, is available as a stand alone text and via the library in both hard copy and digital versions.

Additional material will be made available through the Canvas site.

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, a standard late penalty of 5% of the total marks possible for the task may be applied per day until the assignment is made accessible.

When developing your lesson plans and units of work, 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.

Special assessment requirements

The following two elements are required to pass the unit:

• Substantial completion of ALL assessments. Failure to submit a geniune attempt at an assessment will result in an incomplete fail (NC).
• 50% aggregate mark across all assessments.

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 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 五月天视频 (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Learner engagement

Students can expect:

Lectures: 10 hours 

Tutorials: 20 hours 

Assessment Tasks: 60 hours

Reading and private study: 60 hours

Participation 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).

It is recognised that sometimes absence is unavoidable. If you are absent for more than two sessions, however, your engagement with the unit could be considered unsatisfactory.

Required IT skills

It is expected that students will have sufficient IT skills to prepare and submit the required assignments in digital form. This includes having a familiarity with Canvas and Ouriginal text matching software.

Artificial intelligence services must not to be used for assessment or assessment preparation by students unless explicitly allowed in the assessment instructions for an assessment task published with the assessment task and/or in the unit outline. That is, an artificial intelligence service may only be used if:

• its use is authorised by the unit convener as part of a specified assessment task; and
• it is used in the way allowed in the assessment instructions and/or unit outline; and
• its use is appropriately referenced, meaning that students must reference the use of AI in their assessment in the same way as they reference other source material.

In-unit costs

N/A

Work placement, internships or practicums

N/A

Additional information

Research Led Education: There are active researchers teaching the 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, 2024, Flexible, UC - Canberra, Bruce (222070)
• Semester 1, 2023, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (212958)
• Semester 1, 2022, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (205917)
• Semester 1, 2021, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (200874)
• Semester 1, 2020, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (193515)
• Semester 1, 2019, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (186821)
• Semester 1, 2018, On-campus, UC - Canberra, Bruce (182655)