Teaching in Innovative Spaces
Teaching in Innovative Spaces
Both the design of learning spaces and the teaching practices used within them have a profound effect on how students learn. This Melbourne MicroCert is ideal for currently practising educators in the K-12 sector who want to extend their teaching practice and be ready to teach in innovative learning environments….
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Both the design of learning spaces and the teaching practices used within them have a profound effect on how students learn. This Melbourne MicroCert is ideal for currently practising educators in the K-12 sector who want to extend their teaching practice and be ready to teach in innovative learning environments. It’s also valuable for other practitioners (including architects, educational consultants and administrators) who are seeking the skills to lead change in schools. This course provides evidence of achievement against Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) standards. Examine how learning environments have evolved: Understand how learning environments have evolved over time and across global systems. Consider how governments, school leaders and practitioners define learning environments in their different contexts. Explore teaching opportunities and challenges: Define the opportunities and challenges of teaching within innovative learning environments. Examine both the physical and experiential elements of the learning environments in your own school. Expand your repertoire of teaching strategies and tools: Identify how innovative learning environments can extend your teaching and pedagogical practices. Prepare an action plan to implement a relevant spatial strategy or tool within your own teaching. Attain the skills to lead others in innovative environments: Gain practical strategies and tools to support effective teaching practices in innovative learning environments, as well as the capabilities to impart your knowledge to colleagues.
Skills and learning outcomes: By the end of this course, you’ll have a deeper understanding of how to effectively teach and lead within innovative learning environments. You’ll be able to: Demonstrate knowledge of innovative learning environments in different global and school contexts; Acquire appropriate knowledge of strategies and tools to support effective teaching practices in innovative learning environments.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings, consistently being placed as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and is one of the world’s top 50 (as per Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015). There are over 80 different undergraduate study areas and over 270 graduate courses at Melbourne for students to choose from. The University has extensive global networks and has seven campus locations across Melbourne and rural Victoria.
