| Effective Term: | 2025/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Wellbeing in the School Context |
| Unit ID: | EDBED3232 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | Nil |
| ASCED: | 070303 |
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| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit has been designed to support pre-service teachers to develop a deeper awareness of the sociocultural experience of students, and ways in which student wellbeing impacts on learning outcomes. Participants will examine physical, social, emotional and intellectual characteristics of children and young people from a developmental perspective, and consider how attributes of difference could affect learning. The unit has a strong focus on social and emotional learning and strategies for promoting wellbeing for staff, students and families within the school and wider community. Issues of challenge and adversity will be explored to identify opportunities for empowering learners through strategic planning and implementation of supportive wellbeing initiatives. Participants will reflect on their own experiences of wellbeing, build capacity to manage safe, supportive learning environments, and collaborate with peers to enhance skill development. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
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| Supplementary Assessment:No |
| Supplementary assessment is not available to students who gain a fail in this Unit. |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | | | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | |  | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Apply key wellbeing concepts and issues of concern associated with mental, physical, social and emotional development. |
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| K2. | Explore and analyse the sociocultural worlds of students, including impacts of elements such as family, friends, peers, media and technology, and influences of diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic background on learning outcomes. |
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| K3. | Identify and interpret strategies to enhance the achievement, engagement and wellbeing of all learners through a responsive approach to the diversity of their strengths and needs. |
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| K4. | Recognise barriers to inclusion and identify cohesive strategies for developing inclusive school communities |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Reflect on personal experience of growth and development to identify influential factors of thoughts, feelings, physiology, behaviour and experience that shape an evolving identity |
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| S2. | Apply theoretical, philosophical and pedagogical perspectives to the planning of positive learning environments and experiences, meeting the practical, wellbeing and academic needs of diverse learners |
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| S3. | Use a range of appropriate resources, including ICT options, to support social, emotional and academic learning. |
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| S4. | Collaborate with others to develop strategies for working effectively, sensitively and confidentially with families. |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Develop a personal action plan for promoting and enhancing student wellbeing within a workplace environment. |
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| A2. | Reflect on theoretical, philosophical and pedagogical perspectives to identify connections between wellbeing, teaching practice and learning outcomes. |
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| A3. | Apply Social and Emotional Learning concepts within a practical context and analyse the significance for staff, students and the broader community. |
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| Unit Content: |
Topics may include:
1. Characteristics and development (physical, social, emotional and intellectual) of children and young people and how these factors may impact learning.
2. The socio-cultural worlds which students grow up in and influences on their experience.
3. Cultural safety, cultural competence and understanding the needs of students from diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
4. Equity and discrimination and the impact on young people’s education
5. Understanding the strengths, needs and challenges experienced by children and young people within a learning environment.
6. Understanding the strengths, needs and challenges experienced by children and young people within a learning environment.
7. Understanding the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities and strategies for differentiating teaching.
8. Strategies to support inclusive student participation and engagement in classroom activities. Strategies for working effectively, sensitively and confidentially with parents/carers.
9. Exploring the dynamics of a disabling experience and strategies to restore and promote wellbeing for staff, students and families. |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, A1 APST 4.1, 4.2, 6.4 | Identify a wellbeing issue of concern within the workplace and create an Action Plan to demonstrate how this could be addressed. | Action Plan | 10-30% | | 2. | K2, K3, S1, S4, A2 APST 1.1 | Maintain a personal reflection journal throughout the unit. Discuss key learning experiences and reflect on perspectives, theory, unit content and relevance to teaching and learning. | Learning Log | 30-50% | | 3. | K4, S2, S3, A3, APST 1.1, 1.3, 4.3 | Design an approach to student wellbeing within a classroom context. Implement your strategies over a period of 5-6 weeks and observe change. Create a presentation for your peers discussing your process, strategies, challenges, highlights and the learning extracted from the experience. | Applied Learning Task | 30-50% |
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