EDF4122 Teaching partnerships: Working with families and communities

A range of teaching activities will be used by lecturers to facilitate students' understanding, application, and analysis of various concepts of partnership. The nature of this unit requires you to not just read and review scholarly materials given, but you will also need to actively identify elements that link to your future teaching contexts (e.g. EC, Primary, Secondary) while critically assessing how best to apply partnership concepts and analyse partnership opportunities within educational contexts and various communities.

The class activities will also serve as a catalyst for you to "practice partnership" via your active engagement with your peers and teaching staff to further develop your strategies for building professional relations and networks. The activities will engender spaces for expressing and challenging your perspective, encouraging critical thinking, brainstorming a variety of innovative strategies that will meet your individual needs.

For you to meet the learning outcomes for this unit, you will need to actively take the lead on your learning and explore your understanding in relation to other perspectives and scholarly content. You are expected to fully participate, engage in meaningful exchanges, and professionally broaden your understanding through activities, which will include: small group discussion & debate; research activities; large group debates; group curated Moodle glossary of concepts; workshopping of professionally meaningful ideas; problem-based learning; case-based teaching; and role play.