Key facts
UNE unit code: EDAL519
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- Trimester 2 - Online
- Yes
- No
- No
- 6
Unit information
This unit will build your ability to foster collaborative inquiry approaches to professional learning in schools. It is designed specifically to help school leaders engage in innovation through collaborative inquiry.
It covers a wide range of topics associated with educational leadership, school improvement and design. You will engage in deep inquiry to collaboratively examine what’s happening for student, teacher and leader learning in the context of your educational setting.
The unit provides tools ideally suited to school leaders to enable a systematic reflective process to leadership. These capabilities include establishing vision and values, fostering innovation and improvement, implementing strategy and solutions, engaging with people, enhancing performance, and promoting health and happiness.
You will also demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of these capabilities through completing two small case studies where you’ll detail how you have engaged in reflection both in and on action.
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| Teaching period | Mode/location |
|---|---|
| Trimester 2 | Online |
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Notes
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Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- understand and apply theoretical concepts related to school leadership for inquiry and innovation;
- apply school leadership theory around innovation and inquiry to generate solutions to situational contexts;
- analyse and critically assess how inquiry and innovation in schools is linked with economic, social, institutional, and physical environmental considerations; and
- synthesise inquiry based strategies to lead collaborative inquiry and innovation in an applied school setting.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
| Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Action based inquiry plan | Yes | 25% | All offerings | Select an educational goal and design an action-based inquiry plan for the implementation of an education innovation project in your school or another context. No. Words: 1500 |
| Assessment 2: E-portfolio of annotated evidence | Yes | 25% | All offerings | Innovative implementation strategies - Propose innovative, evidence-based implementation strategies for your plan. Collect and curate evidence of the implementation strategies for your innovation in your e-portfolio. No. Words: 1500 |
| Assessment 3: Case study and oral presentation- Assurance Task | Yes | 50% | All offerings | Use an inquiry framework to demonstrate a collaborative approach to the design and implementation of an innovation to improve teaching and learning in your school or another context as a written case study. Critically analyse the impact of this innovation in an online oral presentation. Interview questions will be used to elicit critical analysis and evaluative thinking. It is mandatory to pass this assessment in order to pass the unit. No. Words: 3000 |
Learning resources
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