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LocationDomesticInternational
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Study Period2,6
Study Period2,6

Unit description

Introduces students to the concept of the professional learning community and the research literature on successful elements of professional learning. Explores appraisal and performance frameworks as means of monitoring and promoting professional learning. Encourages the development of a culture of reflective practice as an essential part of quality leadership in education.

Unit content

Topic 1: Leading teaching and learning in schools. 

Topic 2: Building a professional learning community.

Topic 3: The educational leader as learner: Developing self reflexivity. 

Topic 4: Appraisal and performance frameworks and the AITSL Standards. 

Topic 5: Internal and external professional development for teachers and leaders. 

Topic 6: Learning from teachers, students, parents and the community.

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:GA1GA2GA3GA4GA5GA6GA7
1Identify and analyse key concepts in the professional learning literature (reflective practice, life-long learning) in relation to personal practice. Knowledge of a disciplineLifelong learning
2Critically reflect on the different sources and styles of professional learning and their efficacy.Knowledge of a discipline
3Select appropriate approaches and apply key strategies from the research literature to developing the professional learning of self and others.Knowledge of a disciplineCultural competence

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Identify and analyse key concepts in the professional learning literature (reflective practice, life-long learning) in relation to personal practice.
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
    • GA5: Lifelong learning
  2. Critically reflect on the different sources and styles of professional learning and their efficacy.
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
  3. Select appropriate approaches and apply key strategies from the research literature to developing the professional learning of self and others.
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
    • GA7: Cultural competence

Prescribed texts

  • Dinham, S, 2016, Leading Learning and Teaching, ACER Press, Camberwell, Victoria. ISBN: 9781742863641.

  • Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Structured online learning
Assessment
Discussion board5%
Presentation45%
Reflective writing50%
Notice

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Fee information

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