EDUC9630 Leading and managing professional learning for integrated languages and literacy programs

2020

4.5

1 x 5-day intensive workshop per semester

Admission into GCOL-Graduate Certificate in Organisational Learning

Professional teaching experience

This topic introduces techniques and tools that enable integrated planning for the teaching and learning of the conventions and modes of multiple languages. This topic includes the study of established, successful, evidence-based practices for English literacy teaching. It involves a task-analytic approach to the planning of teaching and learning activities including monitoring and assessment of student learning in and across languages. Key tasks for analysis will be: vocabulary development; phonemic awareness; sound-symbol correspondence; decoding; comprehension and fluency. This process will be undertaken through a cross-linguistic framework that introduces the methodologies of translanguaging and contrastive analysis. Participants will be guided in the application of these tasks and methodologies. This establishes a basis for leading site-based professional learning on multilingual literacy.

This topic aims to:

• introduce requisite knowledge for developing and leading continuous improvement processes in languages and literacy education

• analyse current approaches for the teaching of literacy in English speaking countries

• apply a task analytic approach to understanding contemporary and emerging literacy skills

• explore the relationship between first and subsequent language and literacy development and their relationship to teaching methodologies

• introduce frameworks for integrated planning in the teaching and learning of languages for literacy

On completion of this topic students will be able to:

• elucidate critical perspectives about international trends in languages and literacy education

• apply their understandings of international trends in languages and literacy education to the leadership of re-culturing processes for educational institutions

• discuss and evaluate the variety of approaches used for literacy development in English speaking countries

• demonstrate an understanding of the sub-component skills for the various modes of language through a task-analytic approach

• apply translanguaging and contrastive analysis techniques in the delivery of integrated languages programs

• demonstrate the ability to apply a framework for planning and implementing a multilingual literacy program