School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Early Career School Leadership in Diverse Communities
  • Unit Code

    EDU4035
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosa Maria NAPOLITANO-LINCOLN

Description

This unit focuses on the development of understandings and skills needed to provide leadership in schools catering for diverse populations including those in Indigenous communities. It is a recommended unit of study for students interested in undertaking early career leadership positions in schools located in remote areas, serving Indigenous communities or where catering for a population with challenging or diverse needs is required.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU4030

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the key principles of good leadership.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of the 'National Standards for School Leaders' and how this applies to remote schools.
  3. Identify online support available for school leaders in remote settings and catering for diverse needs from the Department of Education.
  4. Identify some of the key challenges faced by leaders in diverse communities.
  5. Identify the key characteristics required by a principal and other school leaders.

Unit Content

  1. Accessing funding, financial knowledge and associated literacies appropriate to schools in remote communities.
  2. Developing leadership relationships within a diverse community.
  3. Facilitating learning adjustments for the specific needs of students with diverse needs including Indigenous students.
  4. Interpreting the National Curriculum (ACARA) to meet the needs of a school serving a diverse community.
  5. The attributes of leadership in general and school specific situations.
  6. Understanding the `Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership' (AITSL) and its implications for remote and diverse schools.

Additional Learning Experience Information

An elective unit for Early Childhood Studies and Primary students. 3 hour workshops or the equivalent if delivered as a compacted unit.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study based on leadership in a school with a diverse population80%
PracticumAvailable for students who have participated in Network Teach (SOE): peer mentoring, Great Mates: school student mentoring program.20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Early Career School Leadership in Diverse Communities
  • Unit Code

    EDU4035
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Rosa Maria NAPOLITANO-LINCOLN

Description

This unit focuses on the development of understandings and skills needed to provide leadership in schools catering for diverse populations including those in Indigenous communities. It is a recommended unit of study for students interested in undertaking early career leadership positions in schools located in remote areas, serving Indigenous communities or where catering for a population with challenging or diverse needs is required.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU4030

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an understanding of the key principles of good leadership.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of the 'National Standards for School Leaders' and how this applies to remote schools.
  3. Identify online support available for school leaders in remote settings and catering for diverse needs from the Department of Education.
  4. Identify some of the key challenges faced by leaders in diverse communities.
  5. Identify the key characteristics required by a principal and other school leaders.

Unit Content

  1. Accessing funding, financial knowledge and associated literacies appropriate to schools in remote communities.
  2. Developing leadership relationships within a diverse community.
  3. Facilitating learning adjustments for the specific needs of students with diverse needs including Indigenous students.
  4. Interpreting the National Curriculum (ACARA) to meet the needs of a school serving a diverse community.
  5. The attributes of leadership in general and school specific situations.
  6. Understanding the `Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership' (AITSL) and its implications for remote and diverse schools.

Additional Learning Experience Information

An elective unit for Early Childhood Studies and Primary students. 3 hour workshops or the equivalent if delivered as a compacted unit.

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.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Case StudyCase study based on leadership in a school with a diverse population80%
PracticumAvailable for students who have participated in Network Teach (SOE): peer mentoring, Great Mates: school student mentoring program.20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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