Details for Leading Quality Teaching and Learning
Quick Info
- Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
- Course code: EDU561
- Credit points: 10
- Subject coordinator: David Hastie
Prerequisites
The following courses are prerequisites:
- EDU400 Biblical Foundations of Education or 40 credit points
Awards offering Leading Quality Teaching and Learning
This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:
Unit Content
Outcomes
- Summarise the characteristics of quality teaching practice through communally-based and systematic self-appraisal;
- Evaluate strategies for increasing teacher quality and professional learning based on Christian worldview perspectives and quality teaching characteristics;
- Design and implement a strategy for creating Professional Learning Communities that are appropriate to the school context;
- Appraise and critique the current trends in professional learning for educators;
- Design a strategy to meet the professional learning needs of individual teachers in a way that serves the communal interests and student learning objectives of the school.
Subject Content
- Education in the Age of Accountability
- The impact of schooling on learning
- In search of quality teaching and the concept of teaching Christianly
- The link between leadership and the teaching and learning program
- Rethinking the purpose of education
- Professional learning of staff
- Developing and maintaining quality teaching; changing school culture
- Leadership, collaboration and professional learning communities (PLCs)
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Face-to-Face
- Distance/ Global Online
- Intensive (5 days of classes/7 hours per day followed by 85 hours reading, writing and assignments)
- Extensive (5 days spread over the semester)
Check timetables for subject availability and mode of delivery
Assessment Methods
- Forum posts (10%)
- Essay (25%)
- Analysis (30%)
- Essay (35%)
Prescribed Text
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