Task Description:

This quiz helps you to consolidate learning in relation to the Teacher Education Information Literacy (TEIL) module, in preparation for Assessment Task 2.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 3.5, 6.2

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 3

Weight:

5 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

This formative assessment task puts into practice the basic Teacher Education Information Literacy (TEIL) skills from Module One and reinforces some of the literature essential for understanding the context and the procedures that you will use for the remainder of this unit and the course. You will be required to prepare and submit a 1500-word paper on the topic of:
“Explain the relevance of professional standards and reflective practice to your current teacher career stage”.
To complete this task, you are required to:
• Include your own perspective of the purpose and structure of professional teaching standards relevant to your own setting. You will present this perspective:
- as an academic argument, supporting your own ideas with those of others, and also,
- as one that is relevant to your own teaching career stage.
• Reflect on your professional learning in order to appraise alternative points of view and improve practice. To do this you will:
- apply the reflection techniques covered in the unit, and also,
- consider collegial discussion from the discussion boards in MyLO.
• Demonstrate your academic writing and APA writing style skills (TEIL module). You will do this by:
- presenting an introduction that outlines the background of the topic and explains to the reader what will follow in the text. You will also present a conclusion that summarises your ideas,
- presenting an argument that identifies relevant supporting ideas or perspectives,
- selecting and using resources from the literature introduced so far in the unit to support your claims, and,
- including a reference list supported by in-text citations to acknowledge the work of others (according to APA style).

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 3.5, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 5

Weight:

45 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

In this assessment task, you will describe a particular strength in your teaching to demonstrate your understanding of the relationship between teacher standards and your own personal and professional experiences and capabilities. You will utilise the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers, and/or the VET Practitioner Capability Framework, and/or other professional teaching standard framework that applies to your own context. You will also reflect on your learning both in relation to the task and to your educational practice.
To complete this task you should:
• Select a particular strength. That is, something that you do well in your teaching or personal professional practice.
• Describe the strength and the context in which it is applied. Outline what it is that you do to demonstrate the strength.
• Align the strength to a range of relevant teaching standards and consider the impact on student learning. For example, why is the strength important? How would you see it impacting on student learning?
• Provide evidence to support your claims. This evidence will be in the form of:
- artefacts collected from your teaching (or any other area that demonstrates your strength, e.g. the workplace). The artefacts should be incorporated into the text to show their connection to the standards and their direct support towards your claims.
- references to the unit (and other relevant) literature.
• Include a final reflection section that:
- demonstrates how the task (aligning your strength with appropriate standards) has influenced your own perspective on teaching and learning,
- outlines your professional learning needs, and considers positive steps that you can take to improve your own teaching practice and to improve student learning, and
- considers the importance of collegial feedback for your professional learning (in this course, and in your teaching practice). To do this you should submit a draft of your work to two student colleagues for comment and respond to their suggestions and recommendations. You should include this feedback and your own feedback to others as tangible evidence in your ePortfolio.
• Build on your academic skills. You will demonstrate this by:
- incorporating references following APA style,
- submitting your work in an ePortfolio webfolio format, and by
- including an introduction and conclusion to your work. The introduction is a great place to introduce your own professional background, including your current teaching stage. This will provide a context for your discussion of the standards (for example, in reference to a particular level, e.g. Graduate). The conclusion should be a brief paragraph that provides a succinct summary of the work.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 3.4, 3.5, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 13

Weight:

50 %

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CRITERION