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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

    Classroom Management and Instruction

  • Unit Code

    EDU6230

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Helen Margaret EGEBERG

Description

Effective classroom management is more than quick fix strategies or a bag of tricks. It is a purposeful philosophical, ethical and theoretical code of conduct. This unit aims to engage students in reflecting on the assumptions they hold about students, the role of the teacher and the level of control given to students. This reflection is supported through an assessment of contemporary theoretical models in dealing with classroom behaviour which will enable the students to develop a personal management plan. The unit is practical and will include skill development in effective teaching strategies, connecting with youth, dealing with common classroom misbehaviours, restorative processes as well as learning how to de-escalate conflict. The unit is predicated on the belief that all students have positive potential and no student is disposable.

Equivalent Rule

Previously coded EDU4230

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss the premise that all children and youth have positive potential.
  2. Apply the skills used to connect with children and youth, clarify the challenges young people face and enable young people to restore harmony to their lives.
  3. Critically assess the major paradigms used to support approaches to the management of student behaviour.
  4. Reflect on current practice in working with young people and identify guiding assumptions about the nature of young people and development of student responsibility.
  5. Articulate a vision for working with youth within a learning environment, identify the essential components for effective instruction and the maintaining of a safe and accountable learning environment.
  6. Apply the skills necessary for connecting with challenging youth.

Unit Content

  1. Disconnected youth and strategies to connect with them.
  2. Approaches to classroom management.
  3. Effective classroom management as 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. Development of a personal management plan.
  6. System and school policies of behaviour management.
  7. Developing skills in working with young people and supporting them on pathways to responsibility.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 112 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 112 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial12 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures workshop/seminars, case studies, group discussions, student presentations and skill based workshops.

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
AssignmentClassroom Management Plan60%
AssignmentAddressing selection criteria40%

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

    Classroom Management and Instruction

  • Unit Code

    EDU6230

  • Year

    2022

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    10

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carli Anne SANBROOK

Description

Effective classroom management is more than quick fix strategies or a bag of tricks. It is a purposeful philosophical, ethical and theoretical code of conduct. This unit aims to engage students in reflecting on the assumptions they hold about students, the role of the teacher and the level of control given to students. This reflection is supported through an assessment of contemporary theoretical models in dealing with classroom behaviour which will enable the students to develop a personal management plan. The unit is practical and will include skill development in effective teaching strategies, connecting with youth, dealing with common classroom misbehaviours, restorative processes as well as learning how to de-escalate conflict. The unit is predicated on the belief that all students have positive potential and no student is disposable.

Equivalent Rule

Previously coded EDU4230

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply the skills used to connect with children and youth, clarify the challenges young people face and enable young people to restore harmony to their lives.
  2. Critically assess the major paradigms used to support approaches to the management of student behaviour.
  3. Reflect on current practice in working with young people and identify guiding assumptions about the nature of young people and development of student responsibility.
  4. Articulate a vision for working with youth within a learning environment, identify the essential components for effective instruction and the maintaining of a safe and accountable learning environment.
  5. Apply the skills necessary for connecting with challenging youth.

Unit Content

  1. Disconnected youth and strategies to connect with them.
  2. Approaches to classroom management.
  3. Effective classroom management as 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. Development of a personal management plan.
  6. System and school policies of behaviour management.
  7. Developing skills in working with young people and supporting them on pathways to responsibility.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures workshop/seminars, case studies, group discussions, student presentations and skill based workshops.

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
AssignmentClassroom Management Plan60%
AssignmentAddressing selection criteria40%

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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