EDUC6132
10 units
6000 level
Course handbook
Description
While many school teachers engage in supervision or mentoring of student teachers and other teachers, few have any training in these practices. This course will provide students with the opportunity to examine their own supervisory and/or mentoring practice on the basis of a strong theoretical understanding of issues involved in supervision and mentoring. The course will use flexible delivery in the form of IT and paper-based distance learning and by offering a range of assessment options.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Online
- Semester 2 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Introduce students to a range of theoretical and practical approaches to supervision and mentoring, including approaches to equity, diversity, social justice and induction
2. Provide students with a broad knowledge of the philosophical, political and knowledge bases upon which supervisory/mentoring practice rests;
3. Explore with students a range of issues and debates that characterise supervision and mentoring literature and practice.
Content
- Introduction
- Subject overview and historical development of supervision and mentoring
- Supervisors' and mentors' knowledge of learners and learning
- supervisors and mentors" knowledge of student assessment, equity and diversity
- Making equity explicit in professional development
- Mentors' knowledge of curriculum and teaching
- supervisors and mentors" positions and designing curriculum
- Examples of leadership programs and development in supervision/mentoring and induction
- Supervisors' and mentors' knowledge of contexts and purposes
- Confronting challenging working conditions
- Organisational and political literacy
- Supervisors and mentors as leaders: developing effective programs
- Conclusion
- Towards effective supervision and mentoring
Assumed knowledge
Knowledge of teachers' work
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Critical Reflection
Written Assignment: Critical Analysis
Contact hours
Semester 2 - 2024 - Online
Integrated Learning Session-1
- Online 26 hour(s) per term
- Equivalent to 2 hours per week face to face
Course outline
Course outline not yet available.
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