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EDPROF 724 - Developing Communities of Learning

  • Course description

    30 points

    Optimise the impact of a ‘Community of Learning’ through critical examination and practical engagement with key concepts and processes as they relate to disciplined, collaborative inquiry and student achievement challenges across districts. A specific focus is innovative, evidence-based approaches to collective problems of practice and community engagement across education sectors and across subject disciplines.


    Course director
    Kaye Twyford


  • Course overview

    This online course is flexibly designed for teachers and leaders working in a Kāhui Ako or Community of Learning (CoL) environment and those who aspire to in the future, as well as for policy leaders and others interested in the development of Kāhui Ako. 
     
    You will develop deep conceptual and practical knowledge of important components of collaborative work (including relational trust, evaluative thinking and collaborative expertise) necessary to transform current schooling across the community to better serve the needs of all learners. You will also increase your understanding of equity and equity traps that can limit Kāhui Ako development.
     
    The course draws on internationally recognised researchers in the faculty such as Professors Helen Timperley, Lorna Earl and Viviane Robinson, but also on the work currently being undertaken in Kāhui Ako/CoLs by Associate Professor Anne Hynds, Dr Kaye Twyford and Dr Linda Bendikson.

  • Learning outcomes

    At the completion of this course, it is intended that students will be able to:
    • Understand the potential of working collaboratively to solve problems of practice.
    • Understand aspects of school culture that support working collaboratively- relational trust, uncertainty, perceptions of risk and vulnerability.
    • Strengthen evaluative thinking for innovation and transformation.
    • Increase understanding of equity and identification of equity traps that can limit Kāhui Ako development.​

  • Delivery modes

    Online

  • Currently scheduled classes

    2018 Online (Semester 2): Online delivery

  • Take this course

    This course can be taken as a taught course in the following programmes:

  • School

    Learning, Development and Professional Practice



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