EDF3011 · Inclusivity and specific educational needs

Overview

This unit develops your capacity to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of strategies for differentiating teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities, in order to maximise their learning and participation in schooling. You will explore key issues related to the education of learners with disabilities including those who may be disadvantaged because of social and/or personal circumstances and those who may experience exclusion and/or lack of opportunities for success in schooling because of ethnicity, gender, socio-economic disadvantage, chronic health conditions and/or a range of other circumstances. In the unit you will visit and build your understanding of various learning settings in which learners with disabilities are educated. You will explore policies, legislation and research on inclusive education practice nationally and worldwide, to inform your ability to show evidence of understanding the complexities of inclusive education.

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. critically analyse how the early childhood sector and society understand and respond to individual differences to ensure inclusive education
2. demonstrate understanding of how a range of educational settings support learning for young children with disabilities
3. articulate the critical role educators play in ensuring the positive experiences and successful learning of learners with disabilities in early childhood settings
4. identify how policies, legislation and research impact on early childhood settings and teachers' varied approaches to the education of students with disabilities
5. plan and implement effective, inclusive early childhood curriculum for children of diverse backgrounds and abilities.

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: • 18 hours of scheduled learning delivered synchronously on campus and/or online via regular directed learning activities; • 6 hours of scheduled learning delivered online via synchronous and/or asynchronous 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.

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