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Guiding Change for Inclusive Practice (EDUC91192)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2022
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Overview
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This subject introduces school improvement initiatives that enhance approaches to inclusion, facilitating access, participation, and progress towards educational goals for all learners. Global conventions and local legislative frameworks that support inclusive education will be explored, as will policies and resources for supporting learners with learning difficulties. Inclusive pedagogies, framed by multi-tiered program logic, will be closely examined and applied to education settings including Response to Intervention and School Wide Positive Behaviour Support. Inclusive pedagogies such as Universal Design for Learning and differentiation will be explored as ways to support the implementation of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. Assessment tasks will include the use of school data to explore gaps between theory and practice in supporting learners with learning difficulties and an action plan for change will be developed that will lead to improvements in teacher quality and learner outcomes.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Examine global conventions and local legislative and policy frameworks that support inclusive education.
- Apply knowledge about ways to foster and maintain a teaching and learning environment which is inclusive and supports the full participation of learners with disability including learning difficulties.
- Examine multi-tiered systems of support as frameworks for delivering whole school and classroom-based academic, social and behavioural outcomes.
- Analyse approaches to successful change management in education.
- Interpret and work with a range of data to develop a problem of practice that addresses a learning gap for learners with disability including learning difficulties.
- Create an action plan for change that supports the development of an inclusive learning environment.
Generic skills
This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:
- Critical reasoning and thinking
- Problem solving
- Communication
- Evidence based decision making
- Creativity and innovation
- Teamwork and professional collaboration
- Self-reflection, career awareness and lifelong learning
- Active and participatory citizenship.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Case study examining an inclusive educational setting
| Mid semester | 40% |
Report on developing a school change initiative
| During the examination period | 60% |
Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 75% attendance at, or engagement with, all sessions identified as contact hours (may include lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops, both synchronous and asynchronous). | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Dates & times
Not available in 2022
Time commitment details
Total Time Commitment: 170 hours. Contact Hours: 24 online contact hours of lectures and seminars.
Additional delivery details
This subject will be available in Semester 1, 2023.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
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Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Certificate in Education (Learning Difficulties) - Links to additional information
Melbourne Graduate School of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
Last updated: 10 February 2024