Module Plus - Inclusive education: Core concepts and essential knowledge

Overview

Under Australian legislation and international conventions, educators are obliged to ensure all students access an inclusive education, including students with disability. In this Module Plus, you will complete an authentic assessment using your developing knowledge of inclusive education to evaluate the implications for your practice.

On successful completion of the Module Plus, you will earn credit for a postgraduate unit (six credit points) that will be applied as advanced standing when you enrol in QUT’s Graduate Certificate in Education or Master of Education.

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Apply your knowledge of inclusive education history, concepts and legal obligations. Through this assessment module, you will expand and share your knowledge to help others understand what inclusion is and how it differs from integration, segregated special education and exclusion. You will also analyse and discuss educators’ legal obligations to support students with a disability.

Who should participate?

This online module is for participants who have completed the 13 hour Inclusive education: Core concepts and essential knowledge learning module.

For Australian educators, this module aligns with the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST):

1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
1.3 Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities
1.6 Strategies to support full participation of students with disability
4.1 Support student participation
6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice

This online module is open for international enrolments.