EDF2005 Professional responsibilities, practice and relationships

When you finish this unit, you should be able to:

1. 1

   Further develop your repertoire of teaching skills and strategies that promote purposeful, meaningful, engaging, innovative, creative, intellectually challenging, and authentic learning

2. 2

   Create positive and productive classroom environments which respond to individual needs, issues and dynamics within the classroom

3. 3

   Demonstrate effective teaching skills such as planning and organisation; monitoring and assessing learning; meeting diverse student learning needs; effective classroom management; and developing collaborative, integrated and negotiated curriculum

4. 4

   Use a range of specific teaching and learning skills such as reflection, problem solving, negotiation, risk taking, innovation, and creativity

5. 5

   Work effectively with peers, students, parents, school authorities and other educational professionals

6. 6

   Explore some of the broader roles of teachers in the life of a school such as meetings, professional development, policy formulation, parent-teacher meetings, extra-curricular activities and community-based activities

7. 7

   Demonstrate an awareness of teachers' professional responsibilities, ethics and relationships and the changing nature of the role of teachers and schooling.