Leading Professional Learning Communities

Course aim

To develop informed and critical understandings of policy, theory and practice related to leading professional learning communities.

Course content

Students will examine the contested debates around professional learning communities: critiques of School or Site Effectiveness/School or Site Improvement, various versions of ‘learning community’, contemporary ideas about professional learning communities (PLCs). Students will examine theories of Organisational change: global reforms; national policy rationales, site level change models. Students will examine approaches to professional learning that take seriously the demand to develop new educational practices (e.g. action research, practitioner inquiry). Students will research ‘educational’ leadership in their own contexts, developing their own case study.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
EXTERNAL, MAGILL, ONLINE
External (Online introductory activities)	2 hours x 1 week
External (Virtual Workshop)	2 hours x 4 weeks
External (Online activities)	2 hours x 10 weeks
INTERNAL, MAGILL (INTENSIVE)
Workshop	2 hours x 10 days

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Essay, Literature review

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 1A)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.