Building and Sustaining Positive Relationships
Overview
The unit is designed to prepare pre-service teachers to build and sustain positive relationships with students, families and the community. Pres-service teachers will examine and demonstrate how they can support positive behaviour through support student wellbeing, resilience and social and emotional emotional learning. A specific focus is made on developing strategies to work inclusively and ethically with families, community and support agencies.
Requisites
23-March-2025
07-September-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Critically examine how student behaviour in learning environments is typically understood and managed based on contemporary research, theories and debates
- Critically analyse and apply evidence-based preventive and responsive approaches for responding to a range of behaviours, including challenging behaviours, displayed in the learning environment
- Critically analyse different principles, policies and practices used for establishing and maintaining a productive learning environment
- Plan learning environments that adhere to inclusive, positive and restorative models of behaviour management and support student engagement
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
Live Online |
2.00 |
7 weeks |
14 |
Live Online |
2.00 |
4 weeks |
2 |
On Campus |
20 |
1 week |
20 |
Specified Activities |
4 |
7 weeks |
28 |
Unspecified Activities |
12.5 |
7 weeks |
86 |
TOTAL |
150 |
Swinburne Online
| Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning |
18.75 | 8 weeks | 150 |
| TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
| Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Individual | 50% | 1,2 |
| Assignment | Individual | 50% | 3,4 |
Content
- Understanding student wellbeing and behaviour in Australian schools
- Caring and respective student-teacher relationships: positive learning environments
- Engaging learning environments and pedagogical practices
- Student belonging, mental health and wellbeing
- Student behaviour
- School policies and practices
- Working with families, communities and external agencies
- Restorative relationships, policy and practice
- Consolidating key learnings and strategies to support positive relationships
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.