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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Understanding and Managing Challenging Behaviour in Young Children
  • Unit Code

    EDU4310
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kay Elizabeth AYRE

Description

This unit focuses on creating and maintaining inclusive early childhood settings in which educators are proactive and effective when working with children with challenging behaviours. It examines theories and perspectives that relate to social, emotional and cognitive aspects of inclusion and current issues relating to children's behavior in care and education settings. This unit gives pre-service teachers opportunities to explore their own beliefs while building and critiquing a repertoire of strategies to prevent challenging behaviours and addressing them effectively when they occur. Further it explores functional assessment and the use of collaborative problem solving with children and parents. It assists in the development of skills for working with other professionals in building a team around the child where needed.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass ECS2240 and EDS3240 to enrol in this unit

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critique a number of approaches to building an inclusive setting, preventing and responding to challenging behaviour, and relate them to theoretical principles/ perspectives.
  2. Analyse a number of risk and protective factors related to challenging behaviours.
  3. Identify appropriate responses to motivate, plan, manage and engage learners with the curriculum, learning environment and relationships for effective teaching and learning to occur.
  4. Describe a number of strategies for supporting children's behaviour and implement functional assessment.
  5. Use collaborative problem solving to work with families and with other professionals.
  6. Articulate a personal philosophy for creating positive learning environments and describe its practical implementation.

Unit Content

  1. Theories and perspectives of learning, engagement and motivation related to supporting children's behaviour.
  2. Risk, protective factors and underlying causes of challenging behaviour.
  3. Identification of the links between teacher's beliefs about learning, learner engagement and motivation and the teaching strategies they employ for effective teaching and learning.
  4. The skills and strategies of preventative behaviour guidance and responding effectively when challenging behaviors occur.
  5. Functional assessment.
  6. The skills and strategies to work collaboratively with families and other professionals.
  7. Linking philosophical beliefs to practice; planning for effective learning and social environments to engage all children.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered8 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures/tutorials

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject60%
AssignmentAssignment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject60%
AssignmentAssignment40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Understanding and Managing Challenging Behaviour in Young Children
  • Unit Code

    EDU4310
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kay Elizabeth AYRE

Description

This unit focuses on creating and maintaining inclusive early childhood settings in which educators are proactive and effective when working with children with challenging behaviours. It examines theories and perspectives that relate to social, emotional and cognitive aspects of inclusion and current issues relating to children's behavior in care and education settings. This unit gives pre-service teachers opportunities to explore their own beliefs while building and critiquing a repertoire of strategies to prevent challenging behaviours and addressing them effectively when they occur. Further it explores functional assessment and the use of collaborative problem solving with children and parents. It assists in the development of skills for working with other professionals in building a team around the child where needed.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass ECS2240 and EDS3240 to enrol in this unit

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critique a number of approaches to building an inclusive setting, preventing and responding to challenging behaviour, and relate them to theoretical principles/ perspectives.
  2. Analyse a number of risk and protective factors related to challenging behaviours.
  3. Identify appropriate responses to motivate, plan, manage and engage learners with the curriculum, learning environment and relationships for effective teaching and learning to occur.
  4. Describe a number of strategies for supporting children's behaviour and implement functional assessment.
  5. Use collaborative problem solving to work with families and with other professionals.
  6. Articulate a personal philosophy for creating positive learning environments and describe its practical implementation.

Unit Content

  1. Theories and perspectives of learning, engagement and motivation related to supporting children's behaviour.
  2. Risk, protective factors and underlying causes of challenging behaviour.
  3. Identification of the links between teacher's beliefs about learning, learner engagement and motivation and the teaching strategies they employ for effective teaching and learning.
  4. The skills and strategies of preventative behaviour guidance and responding effectively when challenging behaviors occur.
  5. Functional assessment.
  6. The skills and strategies to work collaboratively with families and other professionals.
  7. Linking philosophical beliefs to practice; planning for effective learning and social environments to engage all children.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered8 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures/tutorials

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject60%
AssignmentAssignment40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectProject60%
AssignmentAssignment40%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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