ECE733 - Teacher as Leader
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in D303.2, E606, E661, E725, E761.1, E761.3, E762.1, E763.1, E764.1 or E765.1 |
| Prerequisite: | For E606, E725, E761.1, E762.1, E763.1, E764.1, E765.1: Nil For all other courses: ECE735 Children’s Ecological Positioning – Seeing Children in Family and Community Contexts |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Study commitment | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. The time should be divided between self-paced online learning through the online unit site, on campus or online seminars, discussion forums, assessment tasks, placement, readings and study time. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 1 x 3-hour seminar per non-placement teaching week (approx. 8-9 weeks) Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week. This includes attendance to the seminar, engagement with readings, responses to tasks and independent study. |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 1 x 2-hour seminar and 1 x 1-hour meeting per non-placement teaching week (approx. 8-9 weeks) Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week. This includes attendance to the seminar and meeting; engagement with readings, responses to tasks and independent study. |
Content
In this unit students will complete an inquiry into their own professional knowledge and practice to generate a quality improvement plan focussed on four pedagogical areas:
- Design and Digital Technologies
- First Nation’s culture and histories
- Inclusion of diversity
- Transition to school
Unit content will support students’ to apply advanced knowledge and skills to research literature, policy and curriculum in the inquiry process. By completing the professional inquiry students will gain advanced knowledge about educational leadership. They will review and critique scholarly literature and will synthesise their findings identify strategies that leaders in a specific role in educational leadership might apply to problem-solving and consider the knowledges and skills they would need to fulfil such a role. Furthermore, students will discuss leadership as a means to increase their professional learning through their own and others teaching performance, as well as children’s learning.
Students will engage with the ECA Code of Ethics and the VIT Code of Conduct to review ethical dilemmas and seek to understand professional responsibilities and the implications of ethical decision-making in leadership.
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