Building and Sustaining Positive Relationships
12 Hours face to face + Blended, and offered through Swinburne Online
One Semester or equivalent
Online
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
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
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
- Create strategies for working inclusively and ethically with families, community and support agencies
- Apply a deep understanding of supporting and developing student wellbeing, resilience and social emotional learning including the Australian or relevant State curriculum content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Live Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 4.00 | 12 weeks | 48 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 5.50 | 12 weeks | 66 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
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Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.50 | 12 weeks | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
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Essay | Individual | 50% | 1,2,3 |
Project | Group | 50% | 4,5,6 |
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.