Unit Outline

This unit is designed to provide you with a range of practical strategies to enable your classroom to have a positive learning environment. Situating student behaviour within a strong theoretical framework of engagement, you will evaluate a range of approaches to recognising and responding to diversity, establishing classroom expectations and routines, responding to disengaged behaviours, and supporting students with very challenging conduct. We will also explore common school-wide approaches as well as the structural, legal and ethical contexts of maintaining a safe and highly engaged classroom and situate the learning within the Australian Curriculum, and Early Years Learning Framework. The unit will culminate with you demonstrating your approach to planning for positive behaviour in your specific teaching context.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1	evaluate and develop strategies to engage students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds, and across the full range of abilities.
2	evaluate and develop strategies for effective classroom communication to support student participation, safety, and wellbeing.
3	evaluate and develop strategies to design and manage classroom activities to support all students to develop positive behaviours.

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Concurrent Pre-requisite	EMT502

Alterations as a result of student feedback

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Classroom Preparation Scenario	See the MyLO site for the due date	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 2:	Classroom Behaviour Scenario	See the MyLO site for the due date	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3
Assessment Task 3:	Blog post	See the MyLO site for the due date	40 %	LO1, LO2, LO3

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Classroom Preparation Scenario

Task Description:

This Assessment Task will include responding to how you will cater for individual needs within the class, how you will set up your learning space, and how you will determine the governance of the classroom.

Your responses should include a clear description of how you would attend to this scenario in your teaching context (i.e. your Primary Proficiency or Secondary Specialisation) based on an evaluation of the range of theoretical and practical approaches and strategies presented in the literature.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Task Length:

1250 words

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Engage with the literature (40%)	LO1, LO2, LO3
2	Evaluate and develop strategies to engage all students (20%)	LO1
3	Evaluate and develop strategies for effective classroom engagement (20%)	LO2
4	Evaluate and develop strategies to design and manage classroom activities to support all students to develop positive behaviours (20%)	LO3

Assessment Task 2: Classroom Behaviour Scenario

Task Description:

This Assessment Task will ask you to respond to a complex behavioural situation in your classroom. You will need to describe how you would respond to disengaged and challenging behaviours, immediately and in the longer term.

Your responses should include a clear description of how you would attend to this scenario in your teaching context (i.e. your Primary Proficiency or Secondary Specialisation) based on an evaluation of the range of theoretical and practical approaches and strategies presented in the literature.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Task Length:

1250 Words

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Engage with the literature (40%)	LO1, LO2, LO3
2	Evaluate and develop strategies to engage all students (20%)	LO1
3	Evaluate and develop strategies for effective classroom engagement (20%)	LO2
4	Evaluate and develop strategies to design and manage classroom activities to support all students to develop positive behaviours (20%)	LO3

Assessment Task 3: Blog post

Task Description:

The final assessment piece is to produce a blog post for a professional audience of educators that articulates your behaviour management approach.

Your blog post will demonstrate your preventative and corrective approaches to engagement, and your theoretical justifications for those approaches in relation to your teaching context (i.e. your Primary Proficiency or Secondary Specialisation).

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.3, 1.5, 2.1, 3.5, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4

Task Length:

1500 words

Due Date:

See the MyLO site for the due date

Weight:

40 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Engage with the literature (10%)	LO1, LO2, LO3
2	Effective communication (15%)	LO1, LO2, LO3
3	Evaluate and develop strategies to engage all students (25%)	LO1
4	Evaluate and develop strategies for effective classroom engagement (25%)	LO2
5	Evaluate and develop strategies to design and manage classroom activities to support all students to develop positive behaviours (25%)	LO3

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Academic progress review

The results for this unit may be included in a review of your academic progress. For information about progress reviews and what they mean for all students, see Academic Progress Review in the Student Portal.

Submission of assignments

Where practicable, assignments should be submitted to an assignment submission folder in MYLO. You must submit assignments by the due date or receive a penalty (unless an extension of time has been approved by the Unit Coordinator). Students submitting any assignment in hard copy, or because of a practicum finalisation, must attach a student cover sheet and signed declaration for the submission to be accepted for marking.

Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.

Required Resources

Required reading materials

McDonald, T. (2019) Classroom management: Engaging students in learning (3rd ed). Oxford University Press: Melbourne.

Further required readings are described in the Weekly materials and can be located using the EMT507 Reading List which provides direct access to all material on unit reading lists in one place. This includes eReadings and items in Reserve. You can access the Reading List for this unit from the link in MyLO, or by going to the Reading Lists page on the University Library website.