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Discover how your mind frame influences your teaching within innovative learning environments. This micro-credential is ideal for educators and practitioners aiming to enhance teaching practices and lead change in schools.
Discover how your mind frame influences your teaching within innovative learning environments.
Both the design of learning spaces and the teaching practices used within them have a profound effect on how students learn.
This micro-credential 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.
To be eligible for this course, you need to be either:
Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.
Both the design of learning spaces and the teaching practices used within them have a profound effect on how students learn.
This micro-credential 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.
Consider theoretical and practical conceptions of mind frames, including Professor John Hattie's idea that an educator's mind frame is key to how they engage in all aspects of teaching.
Consider how your own frame of mind and belief system shape your teaching and how this applies within innovative learning environments in your own school.
Explore how to establish a practice of self-reflection to help you deliver evidence-based teaching within innovative spaces. Critically analyse how this impacts student learning.
Explore how you can effectively lead your colleagues to adopt reflective and reflexive teaching practices in innovative spaces.
This micro-credential is designed for currently practising educators in the K-12 sector and other practitioners (including architects, educational consultants and administrators) who are seeking the skills to lead change in schools.
It's ideal for those applying for Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers certification as it provides evidence of achievement against the Australian Institute of Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) standards.
To be eligible for this course, you need to be either:
This micro-credential is led by the Learning Environment Applied Research Network (LEaRN), a multidisciplinary community of scholars investigating the impact of learning spaces. Content has been developed in consultation with leading practitioners in the education, architecture and design sectors.
It will give you a deeper understanding of the pedagogical and design aspects of innovative learning spaces, so you can extend your teaching practice and positively influence the outcomes of your students, and lead broader change in schools.
This course is aligned with the AITSL standards of professional knowledge, practice and engagement, and provides evidence of achievement for educators applying for Highly Accomplished and Lead Teachers certification.
On completion of the course, you'll have a deeper understanding of how to reflect on your teaching practice within innovative learning environments. You'll be able to:
This course runs over eight weeks.
Your total time commitment is approximately 42 hours, which includes:
Assessment:
Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Teachers' Transition to Innovative Spaces micro-credential. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your micro-credential digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.
Teachers' Transition to Innovative Spaces can be taken as a stand-alone course or complemented with any other micro-credential in the Leading Change in Learning Environments series to deepen your knowledge and skills.
It provides a pathway - otherwise known as advanced standing - into the Master of Education. To use it this way, you need to complete all four micro-credentials in the Leading Change in Learning Environments series, then apply for credit towards the masters.
The series includes:
This is a highly flexible course designed to provide you with a rich and effective learning experience.
Within our innovative online environment, you'll learn alongside fellow education professionals and engage with guided and independent learning tasks such as videos, workshops, and interactive peer activities as well as reflective exercises and reading.
The course's fully online delivery offers a convenient way to develop your skill set, from a location that suits you.
Teachers' Transition to Innovative Spaces will expire seven years from the date of issue as particular knowledge and/or skills may need to be updated or refreshed.