Details for EDU346 Equity, Diversity and Differentiation

This subject extends the student’s knowledge of diversity and equality within a teaching and learning context. It focuses on how to design inclusive, differentiated, and responsive learning experiences that include and support all students. This includes students with individual needs and abilities (including gifted and talented). It builds on previous understandings of language acquisition, language codes of practices and linguistic approaches to teaching speakers of languages other than English. It examines strategies for engagement with stakeholders including professionals, together with consideration of parent, caregiver and/or community participation.   

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: EDU346
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

The following courses are prerequisites:

• EDU103 Foundations of Christian Education
• EDU116 Introduction to Learning Theory

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Examine current international and national legislative requirements and frameworks that address diversity in educational contexts and discuss how they promote equality and excellence
2. Apply evidence-based learning theory to design inclusive differentiated learning experiences and safe learning environments for students with varying abilities, diverse backgrounds (multilingual, sociocultural) and individual needs.
3. Examine evidence-based practice and identify effective ways to teach and support students with English as an additional language to ensure equality of learning.  
4. Articulate ways to engage and extend gifted and talented students through differentiated lessons and program design.
5. Critically appraise teaching, assessment and support strategies that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
6. Develop student-centred innovative and well-designed lesson sequences for your teaching specialist area that demonstrate differentiated teaching and assessment strategies and approaches and that incorporate ICT.  
7. Identify stakeholder groups and related strategies to support students to achieve identified learning goals

Subject Content

1. Setting the Context for Differentiation
2. Legislative and policy impact on education
3. Individual student needs
4. Evidence-based practice
5. English as an additional language
6. Recent research
7. Strategies for differentiation in the classroom
8. Literacy and numeracy 
9. Designing differentiated learning programs
10. Identity, inclusivity and culturally responsive teaching
11. Strategies for parent and community engagement 
12. Critically reflect on one’s own cultural attitudes and beliefs

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face onsite (extensive)
• E-learning (online/asynchronous)
• E-learning (online/synchronous)

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

1. Case Study Presentation (20%)
2. Research Report and Action Plan (50%)
3. Lesson Plan Sequence (30%)

Prescribed Text

No prescribed texts applicable.