Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Education

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• Unit Title

  Changing Practice in Classroom Management

• Unit Code

  EDU6000

• Year

  2021

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

• Unit Coordinator

  Dr Helen Margaret EGEBERG

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Description

Effective classroom management is more than quick fix strategies or a bag of tricks learnt at professional development. It is a purposeful philosophical, ethical and theoretical code of conduct. This unit aims to engage participants in reflecting on their practice as well as challenging the assumptions they, other professionals, and systems hold about students and their behaviour. The unit incorporates a practical orientation that draws from participants current practice. The unit is predicated on the belief that all students have positive potential and no student is disposable.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU5000

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Reflect on the skills necessary for connecting with challenging youth.
2. Justify a behaviour management plan for working with challenging youth within a learning environment.
3. Examine current practices and guiding assumptions in working with young people to create responsible pathways.
4. Critically analyse the major classroom management paradigms in light of current behaviour, resilience, positive psychology, and trauma informed research.

Unit Content

1. An understanding of core assumptions and sources to different approaches to classroom management.
2. Development of a personal management plan.
3. Effective classroom management is a reflective, meaningful and caring way of supporting children and youth.
4. Research and evidence of strength based programs for managing behaviour and enhancing student learning.
5. System and school policies of behaviour management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops / Seminars, Case Studies, Group Discussions, Student Presentations, Skills-Based Workshops. The activities will be designed with a commitment to sensitivity to gender, cultural and social diversity. Students will be expected to use information technology as a research tool and aid to reflecting on classroom practice. Students will support and help contribute to a professional and collegiate group culture in line with accepted behaviour management theory.

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.

Core Reading(s)

• De Nobile, J., Lyons, G., & Arthur-Kelly, M. (2020). Positive Learning Environments: Creating and Maintaining Productive Classrooms (2nd ed., pp. xxii, 396). South Melbourne, Victoria : Cengage. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1158582670

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