ETP200 - Classroom Relationships
| Year: | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Melbourne (Burwood), Warrnambool, Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Community Based Delivery (CBD)* Trimester 3: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Prerequisite: | ETP101 and ETP102 |
| Corequisite: | Students must be enrolled in course E359 |
| Incompatible with: | ETP201 |
| 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. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus | 4 x 2-hour online lecture per trimester in approx. 4 weeks (recordings provided) 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
| Scheduled learning activities - online | 4 x 2-hour online lectures per trimester in weeks 1-7 (recordings provided) 4 x 4 hour online practical experience (workshops) per trimester in approx. 4 weeks |
| In-person attendance requirements | 10-day on-site professional experience (placement) per trimester For the most up-to-date advice regarding your professional experience (placement) please see here. |
| Note: | *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) |
Content
This unit aims to develop a strong understanding of how classroom relationships underpin classroom management and support positive behaviour for learning. It will examine a range of frameworks for supporting positive behaviour in educational settings and make links between these frameworks and theories of learning and motivation. The ways that learner characteristics, classroom and school context impact on classroom relationships and interact with these approaches to support positive behaviour will be explored in some depth. This unit will support the development of classroom communication skills in preservice teachers. Preservice teachers will explore ways of engaging parents in the education of their children and building relationships with families. This unit includes a two-week placement in schools and opportunities to reflect on classroom relationships and management so as to apply this knowledge to the development of a personal classroom management plan. The learnings and placement experience are designed to support the development of preservice teachers towards the APST with particular emphasis on Standards 3 and 4.
During the 10-day placement, students will practice the implementation of the teaching and learning cycle with a small group of focus children. They will assess and analyse their learning to set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for the varying abilities and characteristics of the children, and respond to these through planning, implementation and evaluation of learning experiences. Throughout these tasks, students will critically analyse and reflect on their professional practice and teaching identity alongside their mentor teacher.
Hurdle requirement
Professional experience is a requirement of the Victorian Institution of Teaching for the preparation of teachers. In this unit you will complete 10 days of the required 80 days for the Bachelor of Education (Primary). Satisfactory completion of the professional experience is required in order to pass this unit.
Unit Fee Information
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