Building and Sustaining Positive Relationships
Overview
The unit is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to build and sustain positive relationships with students, families and the community. Pres-service teachers will examine and demonstrate how they can support positive behaviour through support student wellbeing, resilience and social and emotional emotional learning. A specific focus is made on developing strategies to work inclusively and ethically with families, community and support agencies.
Requisites
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Critically examine how student behaviour in learning environments is typically understood and managed based on contemporary research, theories and debates
- Critically analyse and apply evidence-based preventive and responsive approaches for responding to a range of behaviours, including challenging behaviours, displayed in the learning environment
- Critically analyse different principles, policies and practices used for establishing and maintaining a productive learning environment
- Plan learning environments that adhere to inclusive, positive and restorative models of behaviour management and support student engagement
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
Live Online |
2.00 |
7 weeks |
14 |
Live Online |
2.00 |
4 weeks |
2 |
On Campus |
20 |
1 week |
20 |
Specified Activities |
4 |
7 weeks |
28 |
Unspecified Activities |
12.5 |
7 weeks |
86 |
TOTAL |
150 |
Swinburne Online
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning |
18.75 | 8 weeks | 150 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Individual | 50% | 1,2 |
| Assignment | Individual | 50% | 3,4 |
Content
- Understanding student wellbeing and behaviour in Australian schools
- Caring and respective student-teacher relationships: positive learning environments
- Engaging learning environments and pedagogical practices
- Student belonging, mental health and wellbeing
- Student behaviour
- School policies and practices
- Working with families, communities and external agencies
- Restorative relationships, policy and practice
- Consolidating key learnings and strategies to support positive relationships
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.