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Details for CRS570 Learning Design, Engagement and Innovation

This unit provides an opportunity for Teacher Education students to investigate and apply the use of innovative and research-based teaching approaches in a teaching area for pedagogy specialist skill development. Students will also consider how to embed principles and values in pedagogy. Teaching area specific pedagogy will be explored as a basis for maximising student engagement and establishing effective classroom management practices. Specific attention will also be given to developing differentiated teaching and assessment resources with the innovative use of technologies, including Generative AI, to meet the diverse needs of learners. 

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: CRS570
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Cassandra Pendlebury

Prerequisite

The following subjects are prerequisites:

  • EDU408 Teaching and Learning Evidence and Practice
  • EDU407 Foundations of Christian Education

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Apply evidence-based theory (including how the brain learns and retains information) to discuss the application and effectiveness of teaching methods in teaching knowledge and skills in specific teaching areas.  
  2. Investigate how values, principles and beliefs shape pedagogy and demonstrate how these can be integrated into teaching approaches and activities.   
  3. Design a series of lesson plans, including relevant formative assessment tasks, that utilise the responsible and ethical use of ICT and Generative AI, into teaching practice and evaluate their effectiveness against a set of identified criteria. 
  4. Construct an e-portfolio of subject–specific proactive classroom management practices and motivate their suitability for maximising student engagement with reference to student developmental stages and diversity. 
  5. Explain and justify the use of responsive teaching methods to meet the diverse needs of learners including EAL/D students, gifted students and students with disabilities. 

Subject Content

  1. Linking pedagogy to practice 
  2. Planning
  3. The Brain and Learning Design
  4. Pedagogy, philosophy, evidence and worldview 
  5. Innovative teaching and learning 
  6. Innovative Assessment 
  7. Classroom Management Practices for Engagement
  8. Considering Classroom Management and engagement in Lesson Design 
  9. The role of GenAI and other technologies in responsive teaching  
  10. Online learning
  11. Innovation for Engaging and Responsive Teaching

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face to face on site (extensive) 
  • ​Face to face on site (intensive) 
  • ​​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. Learning Design: Podcast: The Young Adult’s Brain, how they Learn and the implications of this for teaching. (30%)
  2. E-Portfolio of Classroom Management & Engagement Strategies (30%)
  3. Lesson Plans and Evaluation (40%)

Prescribed Text

  • Badley, K. (2009). Clarifying ‘faith learning integration’: essentially contested concepts and the concept-conception distinction. JE&CB, 13 (1), 7-17.
  • Kieser, D. & Parsons, J. (2013). Characteristics of Christian pedagogy. The Christian Teachers Journal, 24, 6-9.
  • Lovell, O. & Dowley, M. (2024). The classroom management handbook: a practical blueprint for engagement. John Catt from Hodder Education.
  • Rogers, B. (2015). Classroom behaviour. A practical guide to effective teaching, behaviour management and colleague support. Sage Publications
  • Smith, D.I. (2018). On Christian teaching. Practicing faith in the classroom. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.