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Addressing Educational Disadvantage (EDUC90737)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2017

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The subject will focus on issues of pedagogy, curriculum, school culture and change and how they relate to increasing student achievement, engagement and retention in challenging school settings. This subject will build on more general work done in the first year of the Master of Teaching to focus specifically on addressing low student achievement and engagement at the level of the individual school student, but also at the school level. The subject will also examine the school and the classroom itself with their own dominant systems of values, ideologies and differing relationships of power and authority.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject Teacher Candidates should be able to:



  • Demonstrate enhanced competency in the skills necessary to raise student achievement, particularly for high-risk students and those with low achievement in literacy and numeracy;
  • Understand the processes of working towards change with others in the school community in challenging settings;
  • Use evidence to identify school-level need for change and potentially effective means of addressing school-level issues; and
  • Identify areas for ongoing personal learning.

Generic skills

This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:

  • Clinical reasoning and thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Evidence based decision making
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Teamwork and professional collaboration
  • Learning to learn and metacognition
  • Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
  • Reflection for continuous improvement
  • Linking theory and practice
  • Inquiry and research
  • Active and participatory citizenship.

Last updated: 10 February 2024