EIE702 - Teaching and Learning in the Inclusive Classroom
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Online Trimester 2: Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Stephanie McDonald Trimester 2: Stephanie McDonald |
Cohort rule: | Student must be enrolled in course E359, E544, E568, E734, E761, E762, E763, E725, H608, H709 or H765. |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week (recordings provided) |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit provokes teachers to think about their role in working within a heterogeneous classroom—a classroom that is dependent on a fine-grained balance of nuanced knowledge and practice to support inclusive development. These include educational policies and obligations, learner needs, school and community-based services and programs, accessible technologies, and pedagogies of differentiation. The unit is designed to advance students’ understanding of learners’ needs while acknowledging relevant historical, cultural, political and social contexts pertaining to the design and delivery of curriculum and assessment that encompasses the strengths of every student. Through summative assessment tasks, teachers will conceptualise how the heterogeneous classroom functions to support inclusion in their professional context, before considering individualised planning, curriculum and assessment design, and collaborative practice. All teachers are expected to participate in a paired assignment to complete an aspect of the unit mark, upon which they will have opportunity to critically reflect to consider how collaboration shapes teacher practice.
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Analyse the cultural, political and social contexts relevant to the design and delivery of curriculum and assessment to support the success of all learners through a variety of inclusive pedagogical approaches | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving |
ULO2 | Evaluate theories and practices grounded in the threshold concepts of education - curriculum, assessment and pedagogy | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO3 | Critically engage with inclusive philosophies of education and articulate a professional identity as an inclusive educator in the context of the complex demands of practice | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication |
ULO4 | Critique, evaluate and apply curriculum and assessment that balances appropriate theories and practices to facilitate inclusive learning | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO5: Problem solving |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Integrated and Interactive Concept Map | 2000 words | 40% | Week 4 |
Assessment 2 - Co-created Critical Review | 2000 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 10 |
Assessment 3 - Reflection | 1000 words or equivalent | 20% | Week 12 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for EIE702 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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