EDF3076 · Working in partnerships

Overview

This unit is focused on establishing meaningful relationships with families in early childhood and primary education contexts. You will focus on establishing broader contextual community interconnections and partnerships between early childhood services, stakeholders and schools to lead and coordinate a supportive and effective environment for children. The unit content consistently explores and examines the diverse nature of families across education settings. You will analyse and apply knowledge for establishing practice relating to family involvement and collective empowerment for problem solving and decision making with stakeholder families, co-educators across early childhood and primary schools, professionals and network/services in the community. Reflexive practice throughout problem-based learning workshop engagement of diverse family and community scope, and with teachers in the field, will enable demonstration of effective stakeholder partnership communications.

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. display and articulate a sense of self as an educator who demonstrates an equitable understanding, respect, and sensitivity for improving educational practice through partnerships
2. research diverse structures and backgrounds of living, being, and knowing of varying family contexts
3. initiate, lead and implement ethical direction for spontaneous and planned communications to establish collaborative partnerships
4. design innovative systems for partnership communications to be responsive to the learning strengths and needs of children from a range of linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
5. critically analyse case study situations to create community networks for support and resourcing as identified and investigated to solve problems and make decisions
6. identify partnerships and influences for actions of practice and ethical responsibilities through Brofenbrenner’s ecological systems.

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.