EIE702 - Teaching and Learning in the Inclusive Classroom

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Online
Trimester 2: Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Stephanie McDonald
Trimester 2: Kim Davies
Cohort rule:

Student must be enrolled in course E544, E734, E761, E762, E76, E725, H709 or H608.

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

1 x 2-hour seminar per week (recordings provided)

Content

This unit provokes teachers to think about their role in working within a heterogeneous classroom—a classroom that is dependent on a fine-grained balance of nuanced knowledge and practice to support inclusive development. These include educational policies and obligations, learner needs, school and community-based services and programs, accessible technologies, and pedagogies of differentiation. The unit is designed to advance students’ understanding of learners’ needs while acknowledging relevant historical, cultural, political and social contexts pertaining to the design and delivery of curriculum and assessment that encompasses the strengths of every student. Through summative assessment tasks, teachers will conceptualise how the heterogeneous classroom functions to support inclusion in their professional context, before considering individualised planning, curriculum and assessment design, and collaborative practice. All teachers are expected to participate in a paired assignment to complete an aspect of the unit mark, upon which they will have opportunity to critically reflect to consider how collaboration shapes teacher practice.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Analyse the cultural, political and social contexts relevant to the design and delivery of curriculum and assessment to support the success of all learners through a variety of inclusive pedagogical approaches

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO2

Evaluate theories and practices grounded in the threshold concepts of education - curriculum, assessment and pedagogy

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO3

Critically engage with inclusive philosophies of education and articulate a professional identity as an inclusive educator in the context of the complex demands of practice

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

ULO4

Critique, evaluate and apply curriculum and assessment that balances appropriate theories and practices to facilitate inclusive learning

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO5: Problem solving

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 - Integrated and Interactive Concept Map 2000 words 40% Week 4
Assessment 2 - Co-created Critical Review 2000 words
or equivalent
40% Week 10
Assessment 3 - Reflection 1000 words
or equivalent
20% Week 12

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link EIE702
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.

Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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