Unit rationale, description and aim
Emerging educational leaders need to demonstrate evidence of practice at the relevant career stage (Highly Accomplished or Lead Teaching Standards) and utilise a critical enquiry lens to value-add to their educational community. This unit is the second of two units undertaken in the Highly Accomplished/Lead Educational Practice specialisation in the Graduate Certificate of Education.
This unit uses the reflective critical enquiry proposal developed in the first unit EDEP600 as the focus of developing the ability to implement evidence-based practice in action. Emerging leaders will implement their proposals within a specified educational context, focussing on professional knowledge, professional practice and professional engagement. The critical enquiry will then be used as the basis for preparing for undertaking school-based processes within relevant state or territory policy for applying for highly accomplished or lead teacher accreditation status.
This unit aims to develop practices for school improvement and will be used as a basis to help students prepare for the submission requirements for Highly Accomplished/Lead accreditation.
Campus offering
No unit offerings are currently available for this unitLearning outcomes
To successfully complete this unit you will be able to demonstrate you have achieved the learning outcomes (LO) detailed in the below table.
Each outcome is informed by a number of graduate capabilities (GC) to ensure your work in this, and every unit, is part of a larger goal of graduating from ACU with the attributes of insight, empathy, imagination and impact.
Explore the graduate capabilities.
Implement a critical, ethical, evidence-based enqu...
Learning Outcome 01
Analyse and evaluate school-based data including a...
Learning Outcome 02
Communicate the findings of their critical enquiry...
Learning Outcome 03
Content
Topics will include:
- Critical enquiry as research in professional practice; principles for safe and ethical practices, including participant engagement, data collection, analysis and reporting
- Reflecting on, synthesising and evaluating evidence of professional knowledge, professional practice and professional engagement
- Conducting practitioner research; implementing research methods and techniques commonly used in educational research
- Principles of ethical data collection and analysis techniques commonly used in educational research
- Data and evidence; strategies to record, interpret and analyse evidence of impact on educational community
- Synthesising and evaluating critical enquiry; evaluation of evidence of impact on educational change
- Preparing research reports
- Evidencing the Teacher Standards (Highly Accomplished and Lead)
Assessment strategy and rationale
The assessment tasks, their sequence, timing and their weightings are designed to allow you to progressively demonstrate achievement against the course learning outcomes by demonstrating your attainment of academic and professional standards. This is unit two of a suite of two units in this specialisation that focus on developing skills in school-based contextual issue identification, literature alignment and problem solving.
The assessment tasks are sequenced to allow feedback and progressive development. By completing Task 1 you will implement your enquiry project developed in EDEP600. Task 2 will allow you to present your findings to a specialised audience for feedback and review.
A range of assessment procedures are used to meet the unit learning outcomes and develop APSTs and criteria consistent with University assessment requirements.
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Overview of assessments
Assessment Task 1: Enquiry Project Report Implem...
Assessment Task 1: Enquiry Project Report
Implement a critical enquiry project (as designed in EDEP600), collect and analyse data and evidence to assess the effectiveness of the educational change being investigated, and prepare a final report following conventions for reporting research.
50%
Assessment Task 2 : Portfolio of Documentary Evid...
Assessment Task 2: Portfolio of Documentary Evidence at Highly Accomplished/ Lead APSTs Viva voce and reflection. Students will present their portfolio of evidence at Highly Accomplished or Lead level to a specialised audience demonstrating the impact on the educational community. This specialised audience could be in the form of a referee or colleague. Students will be required to reflect on the feedback given.
50%
Learning and teaching strategy and rationale
The nature of the learning outcomes of this unit require you to iteratively interrogating practice, evidence and context in line with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Highly Accomplished and Lead). Accordingly, the learning and teaching strategy in this unit involves an ongoing research and critical enquiry focus on evidence-based practice that commenced in EDEP600. The critical enquiry aims to inform your practice as an emerging educational leader and its alignment with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Highly Accomplished and Lead Standards and add value to your educational context. The unit will conclude with a final report on the critical enquiry research project.
Australian Professional Standards For Teachers - Highly Accomplished
On successful completion of this unit, students should have gained evidence towards the following standards:
Australian Professional Standards For Teachers - Lead
On successful completion of this unit, students should have gained evidence towards the following standards: