This unit introduces preservice teachers to teaching as a research-informed profession. It includes exploration of how published research and student data inform the work of teachers, while also developing the skills and understandings required for teachers to work as researchers. They will develop critical thinking skills related to evaluation and application of an evidence-base, to improve practice in responsive and thoughtful ways. These understandings are then applied in preservice teachers' development and critical reflection on their role and responsibility as educational leaders in making research-informed quality improvements across all standards, and especially in pedagogical practice.
PRESCRIBED TEXTS - Early childhood leadership in action: evidence-based approaches for effective practice
PRESCRIBED TEXTS -Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies
PRESCRIBED TEXTS -Leadership : contexts and complexities in early childhood education
