Learning Outcomes:
This lesson will help you to:
- interact with, and get to know, your teacher and the other students in your class.
This will help you with these learning outcomes:
S2. Can actively and collaboratively participate in somewhat complex and/or abstract interactions, including role-plays, interviews, discussions, meetings or debates, using some conversational discourse strategies
AS2. Can adapt flexibly to a range of assessment scenarios and approaches common in higher education
Introductions: getting to know each other
- Get to know your classmates and your teacher.
- Think about AE4.
- In your notebook, write down:
- one thing you are excited about in AE4.
- one thing you are worried about in AE4.
- one question you would like to ask your teacher.
- Share your ideas with a partner.
- In your notebook, write down:
- Log in to the discussion forum for this lesson.
- Post a short introduction about yourself.
- Respond to some of the other students’ posts.
Learning Outcomes:
This lesson will help you to:
- locate important information about the AE4 course; and
- use a subject outline to help plan and manage your study timetable.
This will help you with thse learning outcomes:
AS1. Can reflect on, evaluate and manage learning to enable life-long independent language learning
AS2. Can adapt flexibly to a range of assessment scenarios and approaches common in higher education
R1. Can identify opinions, main points, summaries, supporting information and clearly signalled lines of argument in somewhat complex texts
- Discuss these questions with a partner.
- What information did you want to know about AE4 before starting the course at UTS: Insearch?
- How did you find the information you needed?
- Have you ever used a subject outline before?
- What kind of information might be in a subject outline?
- Share your answers with the class.
- Download the AE4 Subject outline and find the answers to the questions below as quickly as possible. Write the answers in your notebook.
- How many subject learning outcomes (course objectives) are there in AE4?
- How many hours a week are you expected to study at home, on average?
- Where can you find the full details of assessments?
- What is the weighting of the extended essay project?
- What is the weighting of the group presentation project?
- When are the final exams?
- If you have problems with your studies and are stressed about your academic performance, who should you talk to?
- What does the Student Services Unit at UTS help you with?
- What are your teacher’s contact details?
- Who do you speak to when you think your attendance may be falling below 80%?
- When can you apply for special consideration?
- What happens if you submit an assessment late?
- What two things must you do to keep a high standard of academic integrity?
- Discuss these questions with a partner.
- Does the subject outline have the kind of information that you predicted in question 1?
- Does it have the information you wanted to know about the course?
- Do you have any questions about the course that the subject outline did not address? Write them down so you can ask your teacher.
- Compare the questions you wrote in 3c with another pair.
- Ask the teacher your questions.
- Refer to the AE4 Subject outline and discuss these questions with a partner.
- What are the differences between the subject learning outcomes (SLOs) and the learning outcomes?
- How do you think the skills described in the subject learning outcomes (SLOs) will help you at university?
- Share your answers with the class.
- Discuss these questions with a partner.
- What does academic integrity mean to you?
- What is academic misconduct?
- Check your answers in the subject outline. Are your ideas about academic integrity and misconduct the same as the ideas in the subject outline?
- How can you make sure you maintain academic integrity?
- Why do you think academic integrity is important?
- Share your answers with the class.
- Discuss this question with a partner.
- Which of these could you use the AE4 Subject outline for?
- Checking what you will need to be able to do for each language skill.
- Finding weekly homework.
- Learning about the kinds of activities you will be expected to do in class.
- Discovering which textbooks you will need to buy.
- Planning your time.
- Share your answers with the class.
- Which of these could you use the AE4 Subject outline for?
- Open the Calendar on Canvas. Discuss these questions with a partner.
- Which weeks have multiple assessments due?
- Have you ever had to work on multiple assessments at the same time?
- What strategies can you use to help you manage your time when you are working on multiple assessments?
- Share your ideas with the class.
- Discuss these questions with a partner.
- What is your personal goal for AE4? What would you like to achieve?
- You will need to do 15 hours of self-study per week in AE4.
- When will you do your self-study (for example every day after class, three days a week, at weekends)?
- Where would you like to study during these times (for example the HELPS centre, UTS library or at home)?
- How will you make sure you get enough sleep?
- What other commitments do you have (for example work, sport or family)?
- Click the + sign at the top right of the calendar to create a new event. Enter either a time for self-study or one of your commitments this week to your calendar on Canvas.
- In lesson AE4 1 Planning and managing your time in AE4, you will learn about the self-access/independent learning centre, known in Sydney as the UTS: Insearch HELPS centre.
- Prepare questions you would like to ask about the UTS: Insearch HELPS centre.
- Post your questions in the Canvas discussion for this lesson. Do this before lesson AE4 1 Planning and managing your time in AE4.
Learning Outcomes:
This lesson will help you to: use essential technology for your AE4 course at UTS: Insearch.
This will help you with this learning outcome:
AS1. Can reflect on, evaluate and manage learning to enable life-long independent language learning
- Work in your notebook.
- Brainstorm a list of technology, apps and programs you have used for the following purposes.
- Learning/memorising vocabulary.
- Translating unknown vocabulary.
- Practising reading.
- Learning grammar.
- Practising listening.
- Choose one app or program that you think will be the most helpful for your studies in AE4. Write a brief description of the app and explain how it can be used to help with your studies.
- Brainstorm a list of technology, apps and programs you have used for the following purposes.
- Post your description from question 1b in the discussion below.
- Post a reply in the discussion below.
Note: you must post before you can see other students’ replies. - Read the replies from other students and choose one app that interests you. Post a comment to ask about any aspect of the app you would like to know more about.
- Respond to any questions that have been posted about your description.
- Post a reply in the discussion below.