Details for EDU346 Equity, Diversity and Differentiation

This subject extends the student’s knowledge of diversity and equality within a teaching and learning context. It focuses on how to design inclusive, differentiated, and responsive learning experiences that include and support all students.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: EDU346
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

The following courses are prerequisites:

• EDU102 Foundations in Christian Learning and Teaching

EDU116 Introduction to Learning Theory

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Identify the current legislative requirements and current practice of diversity found in the classroom and align to teaching strategies that support participation and learning of students across the full range of abilities;
2. Using current research, identify constructs of language and identity across the range of disabilities; identify strategies for effectively working with parent/carers. Integrate current research into how students learn and the implications for teaching in your specialist subject.
3. Appraise teaching strategies, informed by assessment moderation, that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds through the lens of a Christian or alternate school context;
4. Critically reflect upon your own language use and cultural capacity within a Christian or alternate school setting. 
5. Develop student-centred innovative and well-designed lesson sequences for your teaching specialist area that are informed by student assessment data, and incorporate ICT, Quality.
6. Teaching Framework, and Great Teaching Inspired Learning using Understanding by Design; and address literacy and numeracy demands of the content and differentiate for the full range of student abilities, and diverse backgrounds (multilingual and sociocultural), providing explicit strategies to support students’ wellbeing and safety- legally and educationally, in a range of school contexts;
7. Critique bias and constructs of race and ability in society and curriculum materials. Critically reflect upon their own language use and cultural capacity within a Christian or alternate school setting.

1. Examine current international and national legislative requirements and frameworks that address diversity in educational contexts and discuss how they promote equality and excellence.

2. Apply evidence-based learning theory to design inclusive differentiated learning experiences and safe learning environments for students with varying abilities, diverse backgrounds (multilingual, sociocultural) and individual needs.

3. Examine evidence-based practice and identify effective ways to teach and support students with English as an additional language to ensure equality of learning.

4. Articulate ways to engage and extend gifted and talented students through differentiated lessons and program design.

5. Critically appraise teaching, assessment and support strategies that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

6. Develop student-centred innovative and well-designed lesson sequences for your teaching specialist area that demonstrate differentiated teaching and assessment strategies and approaches and that incorporate ICT.

7. Identify stakeholder groups and related strategies to support students to achieve identified learning goals.

Subject Content

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face (onsite)
• E-learning (online)
• Intensive
• Extensive 

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Presentation (20%)
• Research Report and Action Plan (50%)
• Lesson Plan Sequence (30%)

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