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Positive Learning Environments (EDUC90976)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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January
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | January - Online |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This subject provides participants with theory and interventions for developing positive learning environments. It supports participants to understand the critical theoretical perspectives that underpin working effectively with behaviours of concern. This subject also supports participants to explore evidence-based interventions for creating high quality learning environments that support positive approaches to working with behaviours of concern. It assists participants to understand how to use multi-tiered systems of support to design and implement interventions for students who exhibit behaviours of concern.
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of this subject, students should be able to:
- Establish productive pedagogical relationships, building trust and rapport with students, creating a culture of achievement and student engagement
- Develop intervention classroom management strategies, with a focus on promotion of positive behaviour and purposeful engagement in learning
- Demonstrate knowledge of practical approaches to managing behaviours of concern and theoretical understandings of causes and triggers of behaviours of concern
- Develop knowledge of multi-tiered systems of support to create positive learning environments
- Use effective classroom communication by demonstrating a range of verbal and non-verbal strategies to support student engagement
Generic skills
- Understand the significance of developing their practice on the basis of research evidence
- Be self-aware, resourceful and resilient
- Be flexible and able to adapt to change through knowing how to be solution focussed
- Work in teams with skills in cooperation, communication and negotiation
- Be skilled communicators who can effectively articulate and justify their practices
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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Online quiz and short answer task
| From Day 2 to Day 4 | 10% |
Literature review
| 3 Weeks after the end of teaching | 40% |
Case study (including 1 hour online component)
| 7 Weeks after the end of teaching | 50% |
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- January - Online
Coordinators Alys Mendus and Lisa McKay-Brown Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 17 January 2023 to 25 January 2023 Last self-enrol date 18 January 2023 Census date 3 February 2023 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 February 2023 Assessment period ends 22 March 2023 January contact information
What do these dates mean
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- Your tuition fees, academic transcript and statements.
- And for Commonwealth Supported students, your:
- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement.
Additional delivery details
This subject has an enrolment quota of 70. Students may provisionally enrol via the Student Portal, but places are not guaranteed until selection is completed. Selection is based on the date of enrolment until the quota is reached. You will be notified in writing by the Melbourne Graduate School of Education if you are selected.
Last updated: 10 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
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 Master of Teaching (Early Childhood) Course Master of Teaching (Secondary) Course Master of Teaching (Primary)
Last updated: 10 February 2024