EUN657 Leading the Learning and Wellbeing of Others
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| Unit code: | EUN657 |
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| Equivalent(s): | LCN624, EUZ657 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | It is assumed that students understand educational practices in education settings and have practitioner experiences within a related education field or support profession. |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
| Availabilities |
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| CSP student contribution | $592 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,468 |
| International unit fee | $4,740 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EUN657 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | LCN624, EUZ657 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | It is assumed that students understand educational practices in education settings and have practitioner experiences within a related education field or support profession. |
| Coordinator: | Denise Beutel | d.beutel@qut.edu.au |
Overview
In this unit, you will learn how to lead the collective and individual learning and wellbeing of others. You will engage with adult learning theories and principles and explore how these can be applied to specific educational contexts. In this unit, you will also be introduced to principles of mentoring and how to establish and maintain a professional learning culture in workplace contexts. You will engage with specific work-based challenges for leaders such as workplace supervision and managing performance and explore ways to negotiate these challenges effectively and ethically.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically analyse organisational approaches to workplace appraisal and wellbeing.
- Reflect on professional roles and practice to articulate professional experiences and learning goals in relation to theory.
- Design professional plans and justify the approaches drawing on theories and principles of adult and professional learning.
- Source and evaluate scholarly and professional literature on workplace appraisal and wellbeing.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Performance management and performance appraisal in the workplace
- Wellbeing in the workplace
- Adult learning principles
- Principles of effective professional learning
- Managing professional growth and performance
- Workplace dynamics and relationships
- Mentoring
- Developing a professional learning culture
- Diversity in workplace contexts
- Interprofessional workplace contexts and learning
- Leading people
- Leading ethically
- Setting professional learning goals
- Designing professional learning plans
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- tutorials (online and on-campus)
- online learning activities
- small group collaboration
- readings
- authentic assessment tasks in which you will apply scholarly knowledge to real world scenarios and in your own context.
This unit employs interactive and discussion-based learning, case study based activities and critical reflection on the intersection of theory and experience.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- self assessment through planned activities
- a range of formative exercises discussed and undertaken throughout the unit
- feedback from peers as you investigate and discuss issues raised throughout the unit
- comments about summative assessment work included with your grade.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit there are two assessments:
- Critical analysis of workplace learning literature - This task draws on performance management and performance principles, theories and practice to critically analyse workplace appraisal processes.
- Workplace professional learning plan - This task connects literature, theories and principles introduced in the unit with your professional role to identify professional learning goals and design a professional learning plan.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Critical analysis of workplace processes
You will describe the appraisal processes you are engaged with in your workplace. Critically analyse the processes and the organisational approaches to wellbeing. Your appraisal will draw on theories and academic literature from both the unit and your wider research. Include de-identified evidence of the appraisal processes in your workplace.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Workplace professional learning plan
You will identify professional learning goals and design your professional learning plan to present to your supervisor. Justify your professional learning plan design and leadership approach by drawing on the literature, theories and principles introduced in the unit, reflection on practice, your current role and professional conversations with your peers. You will submit a recorded presentation of yourself presenting your plan and the justification, including evidence of your practice and professional conversations.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant resource materials will be available electronically through the unit Canvas site. Additional references for assessment can be found in the library. There is no prescribed textbook.
Risk Assessment Statement
During this unit, you will discuss sensitive topics with your peers that may have significant impact and meaning to you, your peers and/or your teaching team. The teaching team will aim to create a supportive and safe environment, and to create protocols around anonymity. They will also support you to develop the appropriate skills to engage in these conversations in an appropriate and respectful manner to ensure a positive experience for all students. If you are concerned that the content of a unit may impact your completion of the course, please see the unit coordinator. You can also access free student counselling through QUT Counselling via the QUT Student Homepage.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EU60 Graduate Certificate in Education
- Reflect on and reflexively analyse own practice to improve professional knowledge and practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Workplace professional learning plan - Critically analyse and evaluate activities, contexts, and phenomena related to professional practice in the discipline of education.
Relates to: ULO1, Critical analysis of workplace processes - Design and justify innovative solutions to authentic problems of educational practice through the application of discipline-specific knowledge and skills.
Relates to: ULO3, Workplace professional learning plan - Source and evaluate scholarly and professional literature and apply it to educational contexts and scenarios.
Relates to: ULO4, Critical analysis of workplace processes
EU74 Master of Education
- Reflect on and reflexively analyse own practice, integrating theoretical frameworks to improve professional knowledge and practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Workplace professional learning plan - Critically analyse and evaluate complex activities, contexts and phenomena related to professional practice and scholarship in the discipline of education.
Relates to: ULO1, Critical analysis of workplace processes - Design and justify innovative solutions to authentic problems of educational practice, drawing on discipline-specific knowledge and skills to lead and influence positive change.
Relates to: ULO3, Workplace professional learning plan - Apply theories and research methods to ethically explore educational issues/phenomena and practices.
Relates to: ULO4, Critical analysis of workplace processes
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2026, Online
| Unit code: | EUN657 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | LCN624, EUZ657 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | It is assumed that students understand educational practices in education settings and have practitioner experiences within a related education field or support profession. |
Overview
In this unit, you will learn how to lead the collective and individual learning and wellbeing of others. You will engage with adult learning theories and principles and explore how these can be applied to specific educational contexts. In this unit, you will also be introduced to principles of mentoring and how to establish and maintain a professional learning culture in workplace contexts. You will engage with specific work-based challenges for leaders such as workplace supervision and managing performance and explore ways to negotiate these challenges effectively and ethically.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Critically analyse organisational approaches to workplace appraisal and wellbeing.
- Reflect on professional roles and practice to articulate professional experiences and learning goals in relation to theory.
- Design professional plans and justify the approaches drawing on theories and principles of adult and professional learning.
- Source and evaluate scholarly and professional literature on workplace appraisal and wellbeing.
Content
This unit will cover the following:
- Performance management and performance appraisal in the workplace
- Wellbeing in the workplace
- Adult learning principles
- Principles of effective professional learning
- Managing professional growth and performance
- Workplace dynamics and relationships
- Mentoring
- Developing a professional learning culture
- Diversity in workplace contexts
- Interprofessional workplace contexts and learning
- Leading people
- Leading ethically
- Setting professional learning goals
- Designing professional learning plans
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- tutorials (online and on-campus)
- online learning activities
- small group collaboration
- readings
- authentic assessment tasks in which you will apply scholarly knowledge to real world scenarios and in your own context.
This unit employs interactive and discussion-based learning, case study based activities and critical reflection on the intersection of theory and experience.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- self assessment through planned activities
- a range of formative exercises discussed and undertaken throughout the unit
- feedback from peers as you investigate and discuss issues raised throughout the unit
- comments about summative assessment work included with your grade.
Assessment
Overview
In this unit there are two assessments:
- Critical analysis of workplace learning literature - This task draws on performance management and performance principles, theories and practice to critically analyse workplace appraisal processes.
- Workplace professional learning plan - This task connects literature, theories and principles introduced in the unit with your professional role to identify professional learning goals and design a professional learning plan.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Critical analysis of workplace processes
You will describe the appraisal processes you are engaged with in your workplace. Critically analyse the processes and the organisational approaches to wellbeing. Your appraisal will draw on theories and academic literature from both the unit and your wider research. Include de-identified evidence of the appraisal processes in your workplace.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Workplace professional learning plan
You will identify professional learning goals and design your professional learning plan to present to your supervisor. Justify your professional learning plan design and leadership approach by drawing on the literature, theories and principles introduced in the unit, reflection on practice, your current role and professional conversations with your peers. You will submit a recorded presentation of yourself presenting your plan and the justification, including evidence of your practice and professional conversations.
The ethical and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools is authorised in this assessment. See the relevant assessment details in Canvas for specific guidelines.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Relevant resource materials will be available electronically through the unit Canvas site. Additional references for assessment can be found in the library. There is no prescribed textbook.
Risk Assessment Statement
During this unit, you will discuss sensitive topics with your peers that may have significant impact and meaning to you, your peers and/or your teaching team. The teaching team will aim to create a supportive and safe environment, and to create protocols around anonymity. They will also support you to develop the appropriate skills to engage in these conversations in an appropriate and respectful manner to ensure a positive experience for all students. If you are concerned that the content of a unit may impact your completion of the course, please see the unit coordinator. You can also access free student counselling through QUT Counselling via the QUT Student Homepage.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.EU60 Graduate Certificate in Education
- Reflect on and reflexively analyse own practice to improve professional knowledge and practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Workplace professional learning plan - Critically analyse and evaluate activities, contexts, and phenomena related to professional practice in the discipline of education.
Relates to: ULO1, Critical analysis of workplace processes - Design and justify innovative solutions to authentic problems of educational practice through the application of discipline-specific knowledge and skills.
Relates to: ULO3, Workplace professional learning plan - Source and evaluate scholarly and professional literature and apply it to educational contexts and scenarios.
Relates to: ULO4, Critical analysis of workplace processes
EU74 Master of Education
- Reflect on and reflexively analyse own practice, integrating theoretical frameworks to improve professional knowledge and practice.
Relates to: ULO2, Workplace professional learning plan - Critically analyse and evaluate complex activities, contexts and phenomena related to professional practice and scholarship in the discipline of education.
Relates to: ULO1, Critical analysis of workplace processes - Design and justify innovative solutions to authentic problems of educational practice, drawing on discipline-specific knowledge and skills to lead and influence positive change.
Relates to: ULO3, Workplace professional learning plan - Apply theories and research methods to ethically explore educational issues/phenomena and practices.
Relates to: ULO4, Critical analysis of workplace processes