EDF3077 · Curriculum in inclusive education

Overview

This unit prepares you to teach successfully in inclusive classrooms by learning about various ways the curriculum can be adapted to meet the learning and teaching needs of learners with disabilities. You will learn about teaching practices that potentially exclude learners with disabilities and how to alter these to ensure all learners can access the taught curriculum. You will also learn about the key principles of adapting curriculum generally, but also at key transition periods, including when students move into primary school, from primary to secondary settings and from secondary settings to work. You will gain skills in adapting text books, units of work and various learning tasks so that all learners can fully participate and benefit from school curriculum.

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

Learning outcomes

1. identify the key principles of adapting curriculum for students with disabilities
2. recognise teaching practices that may exclude some students from participating in learning and teaching activities
3. learn about ways curriculum can be adapted across different subject areas, student populations and at different stages of schooling
4. work cooperatively with a range of stakeholders in adapting curriculum.

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.