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Guiding Change for Inclusive Practice (EDUC91192)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
March
Kate Reynolds: reynolds.k@unimelb.edu.au and
Charlotte Forwood: charlotte.forwood@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | March - Online |
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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
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must meet one of the following prerequisite options:
Option 1
Admission into the GC-EDLD Graduate Certificate in Education (Learning Difficulties)
OR
Option 2
Approval of the Subject Coordinator. Please email the coordinator to seek approval.
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
- March - Online
Principal coordinator Kate Reynolds Coordinator Charlotte Forwood Mode of delivery Online Contact hours 24 hours (18 hours of synchronous online classes, and 6 hours of asynchronous online activities) Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 24 February 2024 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period, students are required to engage with materials on the LMS. Teaching period 9 March 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 26 February 2024 Census date 22 March 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 May 2024 Assessment period ends 24 June 2024 March contact information
Kate Reynolds: reynolds.k@unimelb.edu.au and
Charlotte Forwood: charlotte.forwood@unimelb.edu.au
What do these dates mean
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- Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
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Additional delivery details
This subject will be available in Semester 1, 2023.
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 Graduate Certificate in Education (Learning Difficulties) - Links to additional information
Faculty of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Approval of the Subject Coordinator is required to enrol in this subject. Please email the coordinator to seek approval.
Last updated: 10 February 2024