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<p>This unit is designed to provide pre-service teachers (PSTs) with insights into the relationship between effective teaching and practitioner inquiry. PSTs will recognise the importance of inquiring into their own teaching as a way of engaging in professional learning and will become familiar with methods for conducting inquiries. PSTs are expected to frame a practitioner inquiry that they will undertake in the companion unit Inquiry into Practice 2. Through this unit PSTs will understand the dispositions activated through practitioner inquiry, how practitioner inquiry can improve student learning, and how inquiries are conducted in ethical ways. PSTs will examine how an inquiry into practice can include a focus on their area of specialisation.</p>
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<p>An examination of how practitioner inquiries are constituted as an ongoing and appropriate source of professional learning for teachers. The relationship between having an inquiry stance, improving the practice of teaching and student achievement, and education more broadly. Developing a broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning. Understanding the link between assessment strategies, including informal and formal approaches and the capacity to interpret data in order to evaluate students' learning and modify teaching practice. Developing a focus of inquiry that draws on learning from the program and school-based practice and makes explicit connections to the Graduate Teacher Standards Understanding key ethical principles as they relate to conducting practitioner inquiries. Refining proposed inquiry through peer review and reflection.</p>
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<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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<p>This unit is designed to provide pre-service teachers (PSTs) with insights into the relationship between effective teaching and practitioner inquiry. PSTs will recognise the importance of inquiring into their own teaching as a way of engaging in professional learning and will become familiar with methods for conducting inquiries. PSTs are expected to frame a practitioner inquiry that they will undertake in the companion unit Inquiry into Practice 2. Through this unit PSTs will understand the dispositions activated through practitioner inquiry, how practitioner inquiry can improve student learning, and how inquiries are conducted in ethical ways. PSTs will examine how an inquiry into practice can include a focus on their area of specialisation.</p>
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<p>An examination of how practitioner inquiries are constituted as an ongoing and appropriate source of professional learning for teachers. The relationship between having an inquiry stance, improving the practice of teaching and student achievement, and education more broadly. Developing a broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning. Understanding the link between assessment strategies, including informal and formal approaches and the capacity to interpret data in order to evaluate students' learning and modify teaching practice. Developing a focus of inquiry that draws on learning from the program and school-based practice and makes explicit connections to the Graduate Teacher Standards Understanding key ethical principles as they relate to conducting practitioner inquiries. Refining proposed inquiry through peer review and reflection.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Education, Arts & Community
Discipline:
Education
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
070303 - Education Studies
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>On-line Learning</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/edmas6027">View unit fees</a>
Requisites
Prerequisite
None
Corequisite
None
Exclusion
None
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Learning outcomes
<p>On successful completion of this unit, students are expected to gain the following [K]nowledge, [S]kills and [A]pplication of knowledge & skills</p>
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<p>Develop understandings about practitioner inquiry, what it is and how it difers from other forms of inquiry and builds ongoing professional learning.</p>
K2
<p>Recognise the role of inquiry in framing the constitution of good teaching.</p>
K3
<p>Develop a deep personal understanding about the purpose of becoming an inquirer of practice.</p>
K4
<p>Critically examine and theorise the chosen methodology and its relationship to the inquiry</p>
K5
<p>Develop clear understandings about ethical inquiries into practice and the ways in which this is determined</p>
K6
<p>Examine a broad range of strategies for evaluating teaching programs in order to improve students' learning.</p>
K7
<p>Understand the use of informal and formal assessment strategies to gather data about student learning and teaching practice and the links to decision-making about next steps</p>
K8
<p>Examine the use of the Graduate Teacher Standards in identifying professional learning needs.</p>
S1
<p>Demonstrate familiarity with the use of a range of innovative research methodologies for conducing practitioner inquiries including self-study, narrative, action research and hybrid approaches.</p>
S2
<p>Analyse and synthesise concepts and contemporary issues in educational research.</p>
S3
<p>Write explanations and analyses that are clear, logical, convincing, concise and evidence-based.</p>
S4
<p>Develop the capacity to frame an ethically and methodologically sound practitioner inquiry that indicates understanding of how data is used to inform the inquiry.</p>
A1
<p>Construct an argument related to conducting practitioner inquiries in classrooms and examine the notion of developing an inquiry stance</p>
A2
<p>Present and refine a plan for a practitioner inquiry after critical feedback from peers and lecturers.</p>
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<p>Construct an argument related to conducting practitioner inquiries in classrooms and examine the notion of developing an inquiry stance in order to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning.</p>
<p>Written argument</p>
<p>20-40%</p>
K1, K2, K3, K6, S3, A1
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<p>Prepare a proposal for a practitioner inquiry that is ethical, linked to the Graduate Teacher Standards, draws upon personal interests, peer review and feedback from the previous placement, and which can be conducted in the final placement.</p>
<p>Practitioner inquiry proposal</p>
<p>60-80%</p>
K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, K6, K7, K8, S1, S2, S3, S4, A2
Supplementary assessment available:
Yes
Supplementary assessment information:
<p>Where supplementary assessment is available a student must have failed overall in the Unit but gained a final mark of 45 per cent or above, has completed all major assessment tasks (including all sub-components where a task has multiple parts) as specified in the Unit Description and is not eligible for any other form of supplementary assessment.</p>
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<p>Federation University recognises that students require key transferable employability skills to prepare them for their future workplace and society. FedTASKs (<strong>T</strong>ransferable <strong>A</strong>ttributes <strong>S</strong>kills and <strong>K</strong>nowledge) provide a targeted focus on five key, transferable Attributes, Skills, and Knowledge that are embedded within curriculum, developed gradually towards successful measures and interlinked with cross-discipline and co-operative learning opportunities.</p>
Key information
Institute / school:
Institute of Education, Arts & Community
Discipline:
Education
Study level:
Postgraduate - Coursework
Credit points:
15
EFTSL:
0.125
Field of education:
070303 - Education Studies
Offering:
<p><strong>Semester 1</strong><p>On-line Learning</p></p>
Grade scheme:
Graded (e.g. HD, D, C, etc)
Placement component:
No
Fee information:
<a href="http://www.federation.edu.au/locate/unit/edmas6027">View unit fees</a>
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