EDUC 2002 - Responsive Teaching Practice

North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2025

This course enables you to engage with published research and to conduct action research in a manner that enables you to be responsive to the changing dynamics of classroom, society and student needs, including while on Professional Placement in High Schools during the semester. You will collaboratively examine a range of methodologies and analyse research studies that inform understandings about issues in curriculum and pedagogy and design your own action research project to inform your ability to adopt responsive practices to your teaching. When considering the diversty of students in each class, you will learn to differentiate your teaching and respond to diverse learning needs. As all students participate in the School of Education's eLearning Program, you need to own or borrow an iPad with stylus and keyboard.

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Course Details

Course Code	EDUC 2002
Course	Responsive Teaching Practice
Coordinating Unit	School of Education
Term	Semester 2
Level	Undergraduate
Location/s	North Terrace Campus
Units	3
Contact	Up to 3 hours per week
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange	N
Prerequisites	EDUC 1100 and EDUC 2001
Restrictions	Available to students in B.Teach double degree Programs only
Assessment	Professional Experience (School Placement) Hurdle Requirement, Discussion Board Contribution and Response, Report on Critical Learning Incidents and Report on Critical Learning Moments.

Course Staff

Course Coordinator: Dr John Willison

Location: Room 8.08
Level 8
School of Education,
Faculty of the Professions
10 Pulteney Street, Adelaide, 5005
Email: john.willison@adelaide.edu.au
Phone: 83133219

Course Timetable

The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from .

Lecture attendance: 40 minutes per week
Tutorial attendance: 100 minutes per week
On-line activity: 40 minutes per week

Course Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:		APST (Graduate)
1	Activate critical thinking based on multiple perspectives to improve student learning	1.1, 3.6, 5.4, 5.5
2	Engage individually and collaboratively in reflective practice as stated in APST Standard 6: Engage in Professional Learning	6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
3	Analyse critical incidents and learning moments to promote safe classrooms and maximise student learning.	1.1, 3.6, 5.4, 5.5
4	Engage in responsive teaching practice for improvement of student learning	6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

最新糖心Vlog Graduate Attribute	Course Learning Outcome(s)
Attribute 1: Deep discipline knowledge and intellectual breadth Graduates have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of their subject area, the ability to engage with different traditions of thought, and the ability to apply their knowledge in practice including in multi-disciplinary or multi-professional contexts.	1, 3
Attribute 2: Creative and critical thinking, and problem solving Graduates are effective problems-solvers, able to apply critical, creative and evidence-based thinking to conceive innovative responses to future challenges.	2,4
Attribute 3: Teamwork and communication skills Graduates convey ideas and information effectively to a range of audiences for a variety of purposes and contribute in a positive and collaborative manner to achieving common goals.	1, 2, 3 ,4
Attribute 4: Professionalism and leadership readiness Graduates engage in professional behaviour and have the potential to be entrepreneurial and take leadership roles in their chosen occupations or careers and communities.	2, 4
Attribute 5: Intercultural and ethical competency Graduates are responsible and effective global citizens whose personal values and practices are consistent with their roles as responsible members of society.	2,4
Attribute 6: 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural competency Graduates have an understanding of, and respect for, 最新糖心Vlogn Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander values, culture and knowledge.	2,4
Attribute 7: Digital capabilities Graduates are well prepared for living, learning and working in a digital society.	1
Attribute 8: Self-awareness and emotional intelligence Graduates are self-aware and reflective; they are flexible and resilient and have the capacity to accept and give constructive feedback; they act with integrity and take responsibility for their actions.	2, 4

Learning & Teaching Modes

There is one pre-recorded lecture, one required reading and one 80 minute tutorial each week, and one on-line activity each fortnight. Successful completion of the course is dependent on attendance at turorials each week (minimum 80% attendance). Any absences will need to be supported by a medical certificate or appropriate documentation. Contributions to each tutorial and online activity are required by the teacher Registration Board for practice aspects of the Austrlian Porfessional Standards for Teachers (APSTs) and these standards will be assessed in the course assignments. There will be approximately 30 minutes available at the end of each tutorial to ask the tutor questions about the course and assessments.
The program for the Semester will be available on Myuni one week before the course commences.

Workload

The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.

Professional Placement: 10 days
Lecture: 40 minutes per week

Tutorial attendance: 80 minutes per week

On-line activity: 40 minutes per week

Learning Activities Summary

The course consists of pre-recorded lectures, tutorials and online work.
Each week you need to prepare, so that you may engage in high-level interaction and application in tutorials: (a) read the required readings, (b) complete a Discussion Board post, (c) respond to another's post, (d) watch the online lecture and (e) complete the online activity.
Some people will have completed their Professional Experience placement by the end of Week 1, some people will be completing this in Week 10 or later. Either way, your Professional Experience will be a key source of inspiration for Research as Teaching Practice.

Tutorials will be held weekly.

Schedule
Week	Lecture/Tutorial Details		Learning Outcomes
1	Lecture: No Tutorial	Responsive Teaching Practice Overview	1,2
2	Lecture: Tutorial & Online Activity	Observations you make on your School Placement	3
3	Lecture: Tutorial	Your Small Group Teaching, Mentor Feedback and Your Response	1,2
4	Lecture: Tutorial & Online activity	Critical Risk Incidents (I): Real-time response	2,4
5	Lecture: Tutorial	Critical Risk Incidents (II): Planning to minimize risk	3
6	Lecture: Tutorial & Online activity	Critical Learning Moments (I): Real-time response	4
7	Lecture: Tutorial	Critical Learning Incidents (II):Planning to Maximise Learnng	4
8	Lecture: Tutorial & Online activity	Student diversity (1): Types of Diversity and Different Learning Needs	2
9	Lecture: Tutorial	Student diversity (2): Differentiation of Your Teaching	1,4
10	Lecture: Tutorial & Online activity	Accounting for student diversity (3):Differentiation strategies using AI to account for diversity	3
11	Lecture: Tutorial	Facilitating Your Secondary Students' Use of AI	3
12	Lecture: Tutorial & Online activity	Wrap up: Your Research Thinking for Responsive Teaching	1-4

Specific Course Requirements

Professional Experience- School Placement
It is vital that you are able to apply educational theory and research to your teaching. Therefore, satisfactory completion of Professional Experience (10 days in school) is an assessable hurdle requirement for this course. If you do not satisfactorily complete the Professional Experience component of the course, you will be awarded a Fail grade for the course.

Knowledge of course requirements

It is a student’s duty to acquaint himself/herself with course requirements. Ignorance of course requirements due to a student’s non-attendance at lectures or seminars is not an acceptable reason for non-fulfilment of any requirements.

Students attending lectures and seminars should note that behaviour which interferes with the conduct of the lecture or seminar may result in a student being asked to leave the class and may result in suspension from the unit. In particular mobile phones must be turned off and placed in students’ bags before the commencement of lectures and seminars. Students are not to have mobile phones out during seminars and this includes texting under desks and sitting in seminars with mobile phones messaging others will result in you being asked to leave the seminar.

Lectures
Viewing of pre-recorded lectures is expected and on the basis of the research evidence is highly profitable. (See Woodfield, et al., 1-22, in Studies in Higher Education, 31, 1, 2006 and Rodgers and Rodgers, 2003, 27-41, in Education Research and Perspectives, 30, 1, 2003).

Lectures:
Indicate the overall scope of the subject,
Emphasise essential points,
Provide a starting point for private study,
Give explanations of certain difficult points ,
Give examples relevant to the particular course area,
Provide a preliminary map of difficult reading material,
Suggest sources of further information and reference,
Stimulate student thinking and provide guidelines for thoughts assisting to develop a critical interest in the subject (RMIT Counselling Service, 1969)

Tutorials

Attendance and whole hearted and spirited participation is expected.

Special Consideration

Students who wish to seek special consideration because of illness or special circumstances should follow Faculty of Arts guidelines and apply to the lecturer in charge with relevant documentary evidence. This is usually a doctor’s certificate. For both special consideration and extensions you need to complete well beforehand the Application Form – Assessment Task Extension or Replacement Examination due to Medical and Compassionate Circumstances and/or Application Form – Extenuating Circumstances Application Form. These along with relevant information and instructions are on the university web site.

Extensions and deadlines

If due to illness or other valid reasons, a student is unable to meet a deadline, he/she must follow Faculty of Arts guidelines for applying for an extension and contact the lecturer before the deadline in order to seek an extension (which may or may not be granted). Students are required to produce original documents to support their application for an extension. Any assignment handed in late, without authorised extension, will be penalised at a rate of 10% of the assigned mark per 24-hour period late, to a maximum of 7 periods. Assignments handed in more than seven periods late, without authorised extension, will not be marked and an automatic fail grade for that piece of assessment will be recorded.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is “the reproducing of someone else's intellectual work and representing it as one's own without proper acknowledgment”. Examples of plagiarism include: direct copying or paraphrasing of someone else’s words without acknowledging the source; using facts, information and ideas directly derived from an unacknowledged source; and producing assignments which are the work of other people.

Students have a responsibility to:
Access and use available information provided by the 最新糖心Vlog to avoid plagiarism;
Declare sources in their work submitted for assessment, from which they obtain material or ideas: Retain drafts, notes and copies of all assignments submitted for assessment;
Ensure that you do not make your work available to other students in any form for the purposes of plagiarism;
Discuss any questions you may have about plagiarism with your kindly and supportive lecturer.

Specific Requirements

Students should write their assignments independently. Students are expected to produce their own work. This might involve students choosing, analyzing, summarizing and interpreting the (often competing) ideas of others, and developing arguments and drawing conclusions. Students can: discuss assignments with other students and their tutors; communicate with one another in constructive ways about the learning process; and assist each other, e.g. by discussing the approaches that might be taken to assignment topics, or helping with the availability of reading materials.

Students must acknowledge an original author/creator for the ideas and concepts used in their work by providing a reference or citation. A reference is the written detail of the original source for ideas, which may be referenced within, and at the end of the assignment in the form of a reference list.

You may use quotations: exact words of an original author in written work. The quotation (exact words) should be placed in quotation marks and be accompanied by a reference. If paraphrasing (rewrite completely another author's words or ideas with the intention of presenting the author's ideas), it is vital that the passage is fully rewritten, including the sentence structure. Any short phrases or key words that are used should be handled as quotes. The source must always be referenced.

The 最新糖心Vlog's policy on Assessment for Coursework Programs is based on the following four principles:

Assessment must encourage and reinforce learning.
Assessment must enable robust and fair judgements about student performance.
Assessment practices must be fair and equitable to students and give them the opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned.
Assessment must maintain academic standards.

Assessment Summary

Assessment Task	Task Type	Due	Weighting	Learning Outcome	APST (Graduate)
Professional Experience (School Placement)	Hurdle Requirement		Satisfactory completion required to pass the course	4	1.1,2.1,2.2,3.6, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1,6.2,6.3, 6.4
Assignment 1: Discussion Board post on Reading with response to another student	Summative	Each fortnight Weeks 2-12	20%	1,2,3,4	1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.6, 5.4, 5.5
Assignment 2A: Minimalising Risk through Critical Incident Analysis	Summative	Mid-semester	30%	2,3	1.1, 3.6, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
Assignment 2B: Making the most of Critical Moments for Learning	Summative	End of Semester	50%	1,2,3,4	1.1, 3.6, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Please note transition placement arrangements will apply to students who commenced a Bachelor of Teaching double degree prior to 2019.

Assessment Related Requirements

The overall mark required to pass is 50%. Students need to attempt and pass each of the three assessments.
A penalty of 2% of the mark gained will be deducted for each day Assignment 2 or Assignment 3 is late.
Discussion posts and responses for Assignment 1 must be completed before a student's tutorial commences. The Discussion Board will shiut at the time the tutorial starts. The intention is that each person comes prepared to engage deeply in the content of the tutorials.

Assessment Detail

Assignment 1: Discussion Board Contribution and Response (20%)
Prior to tutorials, students post on the Discussion Board about connections between specified readings and classroom practice. 10% for 10 weekly posts with a quote from the reading, citation, reference and connections to practice. Students comment on another's post whci amplifies or critiques it; 10% for ten weekly responses.

Assignment 2: Using AI to develop General Capabilities in Schooling (Pairs or Threes: 40%)
Work in pairs or threes to collaboratively create a plan to develop one student General Capability, such as Critical and Creative Thinking across two or three learning areas and that incorporates secondary student use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The team component is worth 40% of the total marks and the individual component is worth 60% of the marks.

Assignment 3: Action research design (40 %)

Design and justify action research that responds to an aspect of their classroom practice which relates in some way to a systemic and/or whole school concern and general capabilities. You will need to reflect, plan, implement, observe and explore types of data (e.g., quantitative.)
In this assignment PSTs are asked to design and justify action research that responds to an aspect of practice. Action research design needs to relate in some way to a systemic and/or whole school concern with one of the 最新糖心Vlogn Curriculum General Capabilities e.g., Literacy, Numeracy, ICT, Critical and Creative Thinking, Personal and Social Capability, Ethical Understanding and Intercultural Understanding. A key focus for the assignment is to build pedagogy in a subject that PSTs intend to teach through an action research design.

Professional Experience (10 Days placement in a school- Hurdle Requirement)

It is vital that you are able to apply educational theory and research to your teaching. Therefore, satisfactory completion of Professional Experience (10 days in school) is an assessable hurdle requirement for this course. Placement completion is determined by School Mentor Teachers in collaboration with the School of Education.

If you do not satisfactorily complete the Professional Experience component of the course, you will be awarded a Fail grade for the course.

Where there are Medical, Compassionate or Extenuating circumstances as defined in the Modified Arrangements for Coursework Assessment (MACA) Policy, you may apply for an Assessment Extension in the form of an additional Professional Experience placement. Upon approval, the School of Education will endeavour to provide an additional Professional Experience at a time to be negotiated with a school.

Where the additional Professional Experience occurs after relevant grading deadlines, a Result Pending grade will be assigned. The additional Professional Experience must be completed prior to the date that a Result Pending grade is automatically converted to a Fail grade as outlined in Policy.

Submission

Assignments

1. Double space the lines. Use at least 12 point and a clear and legible font. This makes it easier for the maximum grade to be awarded by staff that wear multifocal spectacles but are otherwise kind and caring, full of compassion, slow to anger and rich in justice.

2. Leave a margin of at least one inch on the left hand side of the paper.
3. Use a footer or header with your name,courseand page number.

4. A title page should be placed at the front of the assignment. This should contain your name, the subject, the title of the assignment, the name of the lecturer concerned, and the date. All assignments must be accompanied by an Essay Cover Sheet, which includes a Statement of Authorship

5. Students who wish to submit assignments via the postal system must ensure the envelopes are post marked no later than the due date for submission and are sent by registered mail. Students are advised that the School of Education takes no responsibility for assignments sent by post.
6. Assignments will not be accepted for marking after other work in that subject has been returned unless a special consideration request has been approved.
7. The completed assignment should be stapled or fastened in the top left hand corner. Please do not use manila or other forms of folders and please do not under any circumstances place each separate page in a separate plastic envelope.
8. Keep a hard copy of your essay and other submitted work. Sometimes accidents do happen, mail fails to arrive or computers crash.
Note: Failure to follow these prescriptions will result in a lower mark on the essay.

Assignment Grading

Your assignment provides you with an opportunity to comprehend research material criticize it and create an argument of your own. Your papers will be assessed on the basis of the following which appear in detail in both the Assignment Grading Templates. Please note all of these especially the previously noted stricture on the judicious use of quotations.
(a) the depth and scope of the research. Has the student used at least 3-5 different sources (excluding newspaper and popular press material)? Has the student simply restated the sources or made an attempt to evaluate these sources and create an argument of her/his own?
(b) the quality of the ideas and the soundness of argument. Is the essay a critical exposition as opposed to a listing and reproduction of the research?
(c) the organization of ideas within the paper. Is the essay logically organized and well structured?
(d) the style of writing including appropriateness of language, clarity of expression, sentence structure, etc.
(e) length, etc. Are there glaring errors of expression, spelling etc? Errors in this area will mean that an essay is very unlikely to obtain more than a P grade.
(f) the quality of presentation, including attention to grammar, punctuation, spelling, legibility and very importantly consistency and correctness in matters of referencing and bibliography. Unless these latter matters are near to perfect then it would be unlikely that an essay would be graded higher than a P grade.

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the university grading scheme and due to the large numbers a distribution on the normal curve will be expected.

Course Grading

Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:

M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme)
Grade	Mark	Description
FNS		Fail No Submission
F	1-49	Fail
P	50-64	Pass
C	65-74	Credit
D	75-84	Distinction
HD	85-100	High Distinction
CN		Continuing
NFE		No Formal Examination
RP		Result Pending

Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.

Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs.

Final results for this course will be made available through .

Student Feedback

The 最新糖心Vlog places a high priority on approaches to learning and teaching that enhance the student experience. Feedback is sought from students in a variety of ways including on-going engagement with staff, the use of online discussion boards and the use of Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) surveys as well as GOS surveys and Program reviews.

SELTs are an important source of information to inform individual teaching practice, decisions about teaching duties, and course and program curriculum design. They enable the 最新糖心Vlog to assess how effectively its learning environments and teaching practices facilitate student engagement and learning outcomes. Under the current SELT Policy (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies/101/) course SELTs are mandated and must be conducted at the conclusion of each term/semester/trimester for every course offering. Feedback on issues raised through course SELT surveys is made available to enrolled students through various resources (e.g. MyUni). In addition aggregated course SELT data is available.

As a result of SELTs feedback and other feedback provided by students the following changes have been made:

1. More convenient class times for students and different location of tutorials

2. Shorter lectures

3. Continuing emphasis on the relation between research and teacher's work
4. Modification to assessments
Student Support
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