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 there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2023 Units. All assessment changes will be published by 20th February 2023. All students are reminded to check the handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Trauma-driven Behaviour in Schools and Early Learning Settings
  • Unit Code

    EDU6475
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kay Elizabeth AYRE

Description

Navigating the demands of the learning environment is often a challenge for the child affected by trauma and therefore specialist assistance is required to support them. Increasing teacher knowledge and understanding of trauma-driven behaviour is the focus of this unit. This will include an awareness of teacher responses and evidence-based strategies to guide the trauma-affected child to better regulate emotions and behaviour and engage in learning.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed or be enrolled in EDU6470

Co-Requisite Rule

Must have passed or be enrolled in EDU6470

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the impacts that trauma may have on the emotional regulation and behaviour of children.
  2. Analyse effective responses to promote learning and prosocial behaviour of children using a trauma-informed lens.
  3. Critically analyse evidence-based strategies to promote self-regulatory capacities, prosocial behaviours and learning in case studies of traumatised children.

Unit Content

  1. Supportive learning environments.
  2. Understanding behaviour.
  3. Behaviour through a trauma lens.
  4. Fear, reaction, and response.
  5. Guiding considerate behaviour.
  6. Collaborative partnerships.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops/seminars, Case studies, Podcasts with Experts in the Field. The activities will be designed with a commitment to trauma-informed strengths-based approaches with sensitivity to cultural and social diversity.

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
ExerciseShort Answer Responses 40%
Case StudySupport Plan60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseShort Answer Responses40%
Case StudySupport Plan60%

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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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.

  • Unit Title

    Trauma-driven Behaviour in Schools and Early Learning Settings
  • Unit Code

    EDU6475
  • Year

    2023
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Kay Elizabeth AYRE

Description

Navigating the demands of the learning environment is often a challenge for the child affected by trauma and therefore specialist assistance is required to support them. Increasing teacher knowledge and understanding of trauma-driven behaviour is the focus of this unit. This will include an awareness of teacher responses and evidence-based strategies to guide the trauma-affected child to better regulate emotions and behaviour and engage in learning.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed or be enrolled in EDU6470

Co-Requisite Rule

Must have passed or be enrolled in EDU6470

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the impacts that trauma may have on the emotional regulation and behaviour of children.
  2. Analyse effective responses to promote learning and prosocial behaviour of children using a trauma-informed lens.
  3. Critically analyse evidence-based strategies to promote self-regulatory capacities, prosocial behaviours and learning in case studies of traumatised children.

Unit Content

  1. Supportive learning environments.
  2. Understanding behaviour.
  3. Behaviour through a trauma lens.
  4. Fear, reaction, and response.
  5. Guiding considerate behaviour.
  6. Collaborative partnerships.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops/seminars, Case studies, Podcasts with Experts in the Field. The activities will be designed with a commitment to trauma-informed strengths-based approaches with sensitivity to cultural and social diversity.

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
ExerciseShort Answer Responses 40%
Case StudySupport Plan60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseShort Answer Responses40%
Case StudySupport Plan60%

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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