School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Diversity and Inclusion: The Differentiated Classroom
  • Unit Code

    EDU6332
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Carli SANBROOK

Description

Inclusive education is a process of responding to the uniqueness of individuals, increasing their sense of presence, access, participation and engagement in schools, and therefore in society. Students vary in culture, socioeconomic status, language, gender, motivation, ability, personal interests and more, and teachers need to be aware of these variations when creating the learning environment. By considering diverse learning needs, teachers can develop a more inclusive environment so that all students in the classroom can learn effectively. This unit covers Differentiated Instruction and Assessment. This is where the teacher tailors the content, product, and process so that all students can access the learning experience. Students also learn about diverse student populations, including but not limited to students who have English as a Second Language, have special needs, are gifted, or who are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. The unit promotes the idea that all students should have the access to the curriculum and that it is the teacher's responsibility to differentiate so students have this access and experience inclusion in the school setting.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded EDU4232, EDU4332

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Articulate an understanding of physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students and how these may affect learning.
  2. Investigate how students from different cultural, linguistic, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, learn and the impact of culture and cultural identity.
  3. Initiate, plan and evaluate strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
  4. Select, adapt and apply teaching strategies that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, intellectual and socioeconomic backgrounds.
  5. Critically analyse the policies, principles, standards, ethics and legislative requirements for teaching secondary students.

Unit Content

  1. An understanding of adolescent physical, social and intellectual development.
  2. Policy and legislation supporting diversity and inclusion.
  3. Knowledge of diverse needs: English as a Second Language, Giftedness, Gender, Special Needs.
  4. Knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history and best practice.
  5. An understanding of Differentiated Instruction and its application.

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 210 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 210 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorialNot 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, guest speakers, tutorials, workshops and direct observations.

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
AssignmentDifferentiated lesson plans60%
Creative WorkInformation booklet for teachers40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDifferentiated lesson plans60%
Creative WorkInformation booklet for teachers40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

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 as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. 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 or generative artificial intelligence tools, 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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