EDF1059 · Fostering classroom culture

Overview

This unit focuses on establishing learning environments that scaffold positive practices and manage learner behaviours. You will explore a range of teaching strategies, models and theories that will enable you to create structured, safe and positive classrooms, that respond to diverse whole school behaviour frameworks using consistent, rules and routines. You will be provided with practical examples and scenarios that frame ways to build positive relationships in both physical and virtual spaces. In this unit you will explore, design, and prepare teaching environments that enhance learning through personalised goal setting. You will rehearse how to respond to diverse behaviours in ways that prioritise learning and ongoing teacher-student relationships. You will be supported to consider your role in student behaviour and the skills you need as a teacher to foster and maintain a positive learning environment.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. demonstrate enhanced professional knowledge to create and maintain structured, safe, and positive, learning and teaching practices that ensure effective rules and routines in online and face to face learning environments
2. demonstrate the ability to develop and apply effective responses to consistently manage challenging behaviour and support a positive learning environment
3. apply appropriate theory-informed learning and resources to support proactive practices and enable goal setting for learners
4. identify and embed proactive practices that build positive relationships in lessons, units and term planners, that support ongoing, inclusive and safe learning environment within whole school behaviour frameworks.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.