EDF4063 · Promoting positive classroom culture

Overview

This unit focuses on establishing learning environments that scaffold positive practices and manage learner behaviours. There will be opportunities to draw on your placement experience as you engage with the content of this unit. You will explore and critique 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 examine practical examples and scenarios that frame how to build positive relationships in both physical and virtual learning environments. In this unit, you will investigate, design, and prepare teaching spaces that enhance learning through personalised goal setting. Additionally, you will rehearse responding to diverse student behaviours in ways that prioritise both learning and the development of strong teacher-student relationships. Throughout this unit, you will be supported in reflecting on your role in influencing student behaviour and in developing the skills necessary to foster and maintain a positive, engaging learning environment.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

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. demonstrate sophisticated 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. exhibit the skills and expertise to rehearse responses that consistently manage behaviour within a positive learning environment
3. demonstrate a deep understanding of relevant theory-informed learning though appropriate application to support proactive practices and set achievable goals for learners
4. embed and justify proactive practices that build positive relationships in lessons, units and term planners, that support an 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.