Educational Leadership, Management and Program Assessment
12 hours face to face + Blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn, Online
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
This unit provides pre-service teachers with the skills and knowledge necessary to successfully work in a variety of leadership and managerial positions within an early childhood service. Pre-service teachers will also gain skills that enable them to be effective communicators.
Requisites
Prerequisites
EDU30003
Curriculum, Planning & Assessment for Infants: Practicum 3EAND
187.5 credit points
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Analyse the skills and dispositions required for the roles of early childhood leader and manager and appreciate their inter-connectedness
- Apply current theories and models of leadership and understand how they apply them appropriately to educational settings
- Identify legal requirements for managing and operating early childhood services
- Work collaboratively to develop early childhood policies and procedures
- Critically evaluate principles and strategies for assessment and reporting of student learning and development
- Examine ethical requirements for policies and working in complex partnerships with families, children, colleagues and members of the community
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Live Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 4.00 | 12 weeks | 48 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 5.50 | 12 weeks | 66 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.50 | 12 weeks | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Essay | Individual | 50% | 1,2,3 |
Policy Development Project | Group | 50% | 4,5,6 |
Content
- Defining leadership and management
- The visionary leader
- Dispositions of leadership
- The critical importance of communication
- Quality assurance: rethinking issues of quality
- Legal issues
- Occupational health and safety issues
- Strategic planning
- Effective communication skills
- Change management
- Marketing and promotion
- Administration in children's services and schools
- Project management
- Program assessment
- Portfolio design and assessment strategies in care services (provide feedback and report on student learning)
- Ethical leadership
- Financial management
- Systems operations
- Policies and governance
- Human resource management
- Policy development
- Legal and ethical dimensions of teaching including the use of ICT
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.