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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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Positive Learning Environments

  • Unit Code

    EDU6205

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sundrakanthi SINGH

Description

This unit in education emphasises the importance of creating the conditions and processes so that learners flourish in the primary school classroom. An important component of this is learning how to create effective instructional strategies that teachers can adopt to cater for the diverse nature of pupil characteristics. Using current research findings and theoretical perspectives, pre-service teachers will develop a personal student behaviour philosophy showing an understanding of the diverse nature of students. This unit is available in both on-campus and online modes of delivery.

Equivalent Rule

Same as EDU4205

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an increased awareness of how to make decisions as a classroom teacher based on sensitivity to the diverse needs of primary school students.
  2. Reflect critically on behaviour management theories.
  3. Synthesise current research, theory and personal beliefs to formulate a personal behaviour management philosophy.
  4. Design management systems and procedures suited to primary school classes.
  5. Select, justify and use appropriate management procedures.
  6. Critically evaluate techniques for managing student behaviour in primary school classes.
  7. Plan classroom environments creatively, which facilitate the cognitive, affective, and social and moral development of children.

Unit Content

  1. Current research, theory and practice to explore how effective classroom management is a reflective, meaningful and caring way of supporting children and students.
  2. Classroom organisation, teaching strategies and use of ICT.
  3. Teaching children with diverse needs.
  4. Management of the student behaviour and the learning environment.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

A variety of suitable teaching and learning processes will be used during the unit: lecture; workshop/seminar; case studies; group discussions; student presentations; skill 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkPositive Learning Environment Resource: Synthesising theory and practice in a medium accessible to parents40%
AssignmentBehaviour Management Philosophy60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkPositive Learning Environment Resource: Synthesising theory and practice in a medium accessible to parents40%
AssignmentBehaviour Management Philosophy60%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Positive Learning Environments

  • Unit Code

    EDU6205

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sundrakanthi SINGH

Description

This unit in education emphasises the importance of creating the conditions and processes so that learners flourish in the primary school classroom. An important component of this is learning how to create effective instructional strategies that teachers can adopt to cater for the diverse nature of pupil characteristics. Using current research findings and theoretical perspectives, pre-service teachers will develop a personal student behaviour philosophy showing an understanding of the diverse nature of students. This unit is available in both on-campus and online modes of delivery.

Equivalent Rule

Same as EDU4205

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an increased awareness of how to make decisions as a classroom teacher based on sensitivity to the diverse needs of primary school students.
  2. Reflect critically on behaviour management theories.
  3. Synthesise current research, theory and personal beliefs to formulate a personal behaviour management philosophy.
  4. Design management systems and procedures suited to primary school classes.
  5. Select, justify and use appropriate management procedures.
  6. Critically evaluate techniques for managing student behaviour in primary school classes.
  7. Plan classroom environments creatively, which facilitate the cognitive, affective, and social and moral development of children.

Unit Content

  1. Current research, theory and practice to explore how effective classroom management is a reflective, meaningful and caring way of supporting children and students.
  2. Classroom organisation, teaching strategies and use of ICT.
  3. Teaching children with diverse needs.
  4. Management of the student behaviour and the learning environment.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

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

Additional Learning Experience Information

A variety of suitable teaching and learning processes will be used during the unit: lecture; workshop/seminar; case studies; group discussions; student presentations; skill 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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkPositive Learning Environment Resource: Synthesising theory and practice in a medium accessible to parents40%
AssignmentBehaviour Management Philosophy60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Creative WorkPositive Learning Environment Resource: Synthesising theory and practice in a medium accessible to parents40%
AssignmentBehaviour Management Philosophy60%

Core Reading(s)

  • McDonald, T. (2019). Classroom Management: Engaging Students in Learning. Oxford. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1099987873
  • McDonald, T. (2013). Classroom management: Engaging students in learning. (2nd ed.). Melbourne, Victoria: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/820968660?databaseList=638

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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