Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Education

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• Unit Title

  Professional Skills for Educators

• Unit Code

  EAP0221

• Year

  2019

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

• Unit Coordinator

  Mrs Catherine Alison HUME

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Description

This unit provides an opportunity to develop professional competencies in the use of Information Communication Technologies, personal literacy and numeracy skills and interpersonal communication essential to the role of Educators. Students will participate in a range of learning experiences designed to maximise their learning potential and academic learning skills. The unit will explore personal value systems and the skills of social and emotional literacy necessary for participating and contributing to cooperative work environments in a range of educational contexts.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EAP0201

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Outline a range of professional competencies and standards required of an Education Assistant.
2. Critically analyse personal value systems and values frameworks associated with the Western Australian educational context.
3. Identify the health and safety considerations and practices relevant to educational context.
4. Demonstrate interpersonal and communication skills and tools within educational contexts, including spoken and written literacy skills, the use of ICT and cooperative group skills.
5. Apply critical analysis, research, academic writing and referencing skills to complete assignments appropriate in an education context.
6. Utilise a range of personal mathematical skills and processes within educational contexts.

Unit Content

1. WA department of Education Policies and Procedures relevant to Education Assistants (e.g. Job Description Forms, Duty of Care, Competency Framework for Education Assistants [Special Needs], Curriculum Vitae templates, selection criteria and interview skills).
2. The Values Clarification Process.
3. Health and safety in a range of educational contexts.
4. Interpersonal communication skills, social and emotional understandings, skills and practices relevant to team work and cooperative workplace engagement.
5. Basic Information Communication software and skills for word processing, email, digital and multimedia applications.
6. Personal literacy and numeracy skills including active reading strategies; note-taking strategies for different situations and requirements; referencing and copyright skills; finding and analysing sources; mathematical computations with real numbers; mathematical strategies and reasoning to formulated problems.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Core Reading(s)

• Grellier, J., & Goerke, V. (2018). Communications toolkit (p. 376). Cengage Learning Australia. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1090495240
• Kearns, Karen. (2016). Supporting Education: The Teaching Assistant’s Handbook (2nd ed., p. 592). Melbourne, VIC: Cengage Australia. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ECU/detail.action?docID=4932171

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