ED2490:04
Managing Teaching and Learning
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: ED1401
26 lectures, 13 tutorials, 25 hours professional experience. First semester.
This subject uses a problem solving approach to introduce students to key conceptualisations of effective learning and teaching within an ethic of care. It does this by investigating the management of educational environments including an introduction to planning, incorporating information technologies, and managing student behaviour (preventively, cognitively, socially and behavioristically); connections between school and community contexts, teaching, learning and student outcomes; and theories of learning and teaching. These themes will be discussed with specific reference to early childhood, primary and secondary contexts. Students are engaged in 10 half-day professional experiences in educational settings to establish praxis as the preferred way of knowing.
Learning Objectives:
- a clear understanding of assumptions, key features and implications of a range of approaches to: effective learning and teaching; ways to organise classroom/early childhood environments; planning for learning/teaching episodes; planning for mulit-age, Indigenous and other contexts; theories that inform our understanding of learners, teaching/learning and managing student behaviour;
- the ability to: plan within a framework of effective learning and teaching; teach to those plans; reflect on their own practices (including patterns of classroom talk) and theories that inform them; identify links between teaching episodes, units and school work prorams; use multiple perspectives to investigate challenges that teachers face; organise stimulating, challenging and caring learning environments; use a range of approaches to behaviour management; articulate their own developing notions of effective learning and teaching; assess student outcomes of learning episodes.
Assessment by an essay related to description/analysis/reflection on the 10 half-days (30%); a group seminar based on classroom or school scenarios analysed in the light of various learning/teaching/behaviour management theories or approaches (30%); one examination (40%).
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