EDPI153-10X (D) General non-calendar-based 2010 (Distance)

Inter and Intra Personal Skills

4 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 12 April 2010
End Date: Sunday, 18 April 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 18 April 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 18 April 2010

Description

This is a 100 level compulsory course that requires students to focus on developing and extending inter and intra personal skills to enable them to establish and maintain effective professional relationships. The course models experiential learning theory in its delivery and in developing these skills.

Learning Outcomes

  • Learning Outcomes

  • Continue identifying moral and ethical aspects embedded in professional role of the teacher, their responsibility to diverse learners, their learning and the mana of Maori learners and culture with classroom context.
  • Demonstrate effective communications skills through ability to reflect critically on personal verbal and non-verbal communication that can support or impede communication in learning interactions.
  • Demonstrate ability to model the skill of active listening and the skill of confronting with dignity any unacceptable behaviour and mediating in a conflict of needs that arise in the school context.
  • Demonstrate understanding of choices when resolving in a conflict of values.
  • Identify the strengths and weaknesses of their learning/working styles within professional contexts in relation to the principles, values and key competencies needed for teaching the NZ Curriculum.

    Clarify the existing ideas about the contribution of reflective practice to the teaching and learning process.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Jill Moseley

Lecturers

Alison Ayrton and Susanna Wilson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
EDPI153 Extending understanding and skills of active listening and confronting. 100% Inter and Intra Personal Communication Skills.

Textbooks / Resources

READING AND RESOURCES
1. Required Reading
Course book of readings.

2. Recommended Readings
Bolton, R. (1986). People Skills.  Australia: Simon & Schuster.
Buzan, T. (1988). Make the Most of Your Mind.  London: Pan.
Coles, R. (1997). The Moral Intelligence of Children.  London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Cornelius, H., & Faire, S. (1989). Everyone Can Win:  How to Resolve Conflict.
Australia: Simon & Schuster.
Crum, T.F. (1987). The Magic of Conflict.  New York: Avon.
Csikszentmihalyi, M., & I. (1990). Flow: The Psychology of Optimum, Experience. New York: Harper and Row.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1993). The Evolving Self: A psychology for the third millennium. New York: Harper Collins.
Englander-Golden, P., & Satir, V. (1990). Say it straight. Palo Alto,
California, USA: Science and Behaviour Books.
Feuerstein, R. (1980). Instrumental Enrichment. Baltimore: University Press.
Gardner,H. (1991). The Unschooled Mind. USA: Basic Books.
Gardner,H. (1993). Multiple Intelligences. Theory in practice.USA:  Basic Books.
Gardner,H. (1989). To Open Minds. USA: Basic Books.
Gardner,H. (1993). Creating Minds. USA: Basic Books.
Ginott, H.G. (1972). Teacher and Child. New York: Avon.
Glasser,W. (1986). Control Theory in the Classroom. New York: Harper & Row.
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Library.
Gordon, T. (1974). T.E.T. Teacher Effectiveness Training. New York:
Peter H. Wyden.
Gross, R. (1991). Peak Learning. Los Angeles, CA: Jeremy P Tarcher.
Harrison, J. (1993). Understanding children – towards responsive relationships.  Victoria, Australia: ACER.
Healy, J. (1987).  Your Child’s Growing Mind.  New York: Double Bay.
Healy, J. (1990). Endangered Minds. New York: Simon Schuster.
Hunter, D., Bailey, A., & Taylor, B. (1992). The Zen of Groups.
Auckland NZ: Tandem.
Jensen, E. (1988). Superteaching. USA: Turning Point.
Kohn, A. (1993). Punished by Rewards. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Kolb, D. (1984). Experiential Education. New Jersey: Prentice & Hall.
McCarthy, B. (1983). 4 Mat in Action. USA: Excel Inc.
Manthei, M. (1981). Positively Me. Auckland, NZ: Methuen.
Manthei, M. (1990). Decisively Me. Auckland, NZ: Heinemann Reed.
Metge, J. & Kinloch, P. (1984). Talking Past Each Other. Wellington, NZ:
Victoria University Press.
Perkins, D. (1995). Outsmarting IQ: the emerging science of learnable intelligence. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.
Perkins, D. (1992). Smart Schools: Better thinking and learning for every child.
New York: Simon & Schuster Inc.
Pike,G., & Selby, D. (1988). Global Teacher, Global Learner.London: Hodder and Stoughton.
Satir,V. (1976). Making Contact. California, USA: Celestial Arts.
Seligman, M.E.P. (1995). The Optimistic Child. Australia, NSW: Random House.
Smith, A.B.,  Inder, P.M., & Ratcliff,B. (1995). The Nature and Context of Children’s Conflicts. New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies. Vol.30,2 pp103-117.
Smith, A.B.,  Barraclough, S., & Sutcliffe, R. (1996) Young children’s conflicts and teachers perspective’s on them.  Dunedin, NZ: Children’s Issues Centre Manawa Rangahau Tamariki.
Sternberg, R. (1996). Successful Intelligence. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Weeks, D. (1992, 1994). The Eight Steps to Conflict Resolution. New York: Putman.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $152.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Educational Studies and Leadership .

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