Innovation for Education
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 12 Hours face to face + Blended, and offered through SOL
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Corequisites
EDU80020 Professional Experience 2
OR
EDU80051 Professional Experience 2
OR
EDU70016 Supervised Professional Experience 2
Aims and objectives
The focus of this unit is on developing the pre-service teacher’s capacity to critically evaluate innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Underpinning this unit is the Design Thinking Methodology where pre-service teachers will implement a creative approach to contemporary innovative practices for teaching and learning using an inquiry model. Pre-service teachers will develop strategies for critical evaluation of a diverse range of approaches towards innovation and current practice. Pre-service teachers will integrate their knowledge to engage in a Problem Based approach to design, as well as creating and critically evaluating innovations in the education arena.
Unit Learning Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
Unit Learning Outcomes: Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Critically examine contemporary teaching practice.
2. Identify, investigate and critically evaluate innovative approaches to curriculum, classroom practice and learning environments.
3. Critically examine innovative practice using a range of contemporary theories.
4. Critically evaluate innovative approaches within their specific discipline area.
Courses with unit
BA-EDUSEC Bachelor of Education (Secondary)BB-EDSBUS Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Business
BB-EDSSC Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Science
BB-EDSART Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Arts
BB-EDSART1 Bachelor of Education (Secondary)/Bachelor of Arts
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type (On-campus) | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
| Face to Face Contact Seminar |
2 |
6 |
12 |
| Online Contact Online |
1 | 12 | 12 |
| Specified Learning Activities Prescribed readings, Online activities |
4 |
12 |
48 |
| Unspecified Learning Activities Independent study, assignment preparation, readings |
6.5 | 12 |
78 |
| TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Report | Individual | 50% | 1, 2 |
| Problem based learning folio | Individual | 50% | 3, 4 |
Content
• Innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
• Design thinking, creativity and innovation, and discipline areas.
• Responding to our world through the curriculum.
• Engaging with diverse and divergent thinking.
• Collaborative learning and sharing – peers, colleagues, school community.
• Multi-literacies, multimodalities.
• Inquiry/problem based thinking and learning objectives.
• Negotiating learning/teaching spaces in the 21st century.
• Redesigning learning – inclusion, diversity, participation and equity.
• Different modes of schooling.
• Critical theories.
• 21st Century skills.
• Emerging Technologies.
• Design thinking, creativity and innovation, and discipline areas.
• Responding to our world through the curriculum.
• Engaging with diverse and divergent thinking.
• Collaborative learning and sharing – peers, colleagues, school community.
• Multi-literacies, multimodalities.
• Inquiry/problem based thinking and learning objectives.
• Negotiating learning/teaching spaces in the 21st century.
• Redesigning learning – inclusion, diversity, participation and equity.
• Different modes of schooling.
• Critical theories.
• 21st Century skills.
• Emerging Technologies.
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials will be made available in the Unit Outline.