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Guiding Change for Inclusive Practice (EDUC91192)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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Contact information
March
Kate Reynolds: reynolds.k@unimelb.edu.au and
Charlotte Forwood: charlotte.forwood@unimelb.edu.au
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, inclusive of collaborative practice, 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, collaborative 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