Task Description:

In this unit you will begin the process of preparing for study toward a professional teaching or education support career, and for life-long learning in general.

This task involves two distinct steps:
First, you are required to draft a brief statement (written in an academic style) based on your current knowledge and understanding of teaching/education support, and the attributes that you bring to teaching/education support. Specifically, the statement will address:
a) your reasons for becoming a teacher/education support specialist; and
b) the attributes of an effective educator that you currently possess and how those attributes will enable you to carry out the roles and responsibilities of your chosen profession.

Note that you should focus on just one or two attributes and reflect on them in light of just one or two roles/responsibilities.
You must submit your draft paper to Studiosity for feedback on written expression and content. You should do this by the end of Week 3 of semester, to ensure you receive feedback in a timely manner.

Next, you must refine your draft paper based on the feedback report that you receive from Studiosity and upload both your Studiosity report and final draft to MyLO (as separate documents)

To achieve at least a pass for this assignment your final draft must:
• address both (a) and (b) above, and
• refer to at least two readings written by two different authors.

An assessment brief for this task will be provided in MyLO.

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 5

Weight:

15 %

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Task Description:

One key aim of this and the remaining ‘Engagement in Education Settings’ tasks is to help you deepen your knowledge and understanding of the foundations of teaching. A second aim is for you to further develop your capacity for reflective thinking; an important skill for all teachers and education support specialists.

To that end, you are required to complete a written reflective journal entry which will focus on your first observation experience (video footage provided in MyLO), and will be written in light of your learning in relation to:
• Student learning or Student motivation and engagement
• The related literature of the field
• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
• Your future teaching/education support aspirations related to the topic. This should include planning for any professional learning you may need to undertake to improve your future teaching/education support practice relating to student learning or student motivation/engagement.

An assessment brief for this task is provided in MyLO.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.2, 2.1, 3.5, 4.1, 6.1, 6.4

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 8

Weight:

20 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

This written reflection is much the same as AT2, other than the focus topic/s have changed.

For this task you are required to complete a written reflective journal entry which will focus on your first observation experience (video footage provided in MyLO), and will be written in light of your learning in relation to:
• Establishing effective learning environments for all students
• The related literature of the field
• The Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
• Your future teaching/education support aspirations related to the topic. This should include planning for any professional learning you may need to undertake to improve your future teaching/education support practice relating to effective learning environments.

An assessment brief for this task is provided in MyLO.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4,1.5, 1.6, 3.5, 3.7, 4.1, 6.1, 6.4

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 11

Weight:

25 %

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CRITERION

Task Description:

This final assessment task requires you to collate evidence of your learning - your developing understanding of core unit content - across the semester. You will present your work as a portfolio, using the relevant Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) as organisers, as follows:
• Select one focus area only for each of the four APST covered in this unit, from the list below:
Standard 1 focus area: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
Standard 2 focus area: 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4
Standard 3 focus area: 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7
Standard 4 focus area: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
• For each of the selected focus areas, present a short narrative reflection of your learning related to that aspect of teachers’ work. At a minimum, your narrative should include:
- the key highlights of your learning related to the focus area
- any challenges that you faced in developing your thinking
- what additional learning you may need to undertake to further develop your understanding in relation to this focus area. This should include an outline of your plans for future learning, independent of your course of study.
• Your narrative must be scholarly. That is, you must demonstrate how the prescribed text and/or wider readings have informed/helped develop your understanding of the APST focus area, and reference accordingly.
• Support your narrative with the inclusion of key evidences of your learning for each of the chosen APST focus areas.
• The relevance of each piece of evidence used and how it demonstrates your learning, must be made clear through your narrative.

Further details about each of the above sections, and an assignment brief, including example portfolios, will be provided in MyLO.

Completion of this Assessment Task relates to Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 3.5, 3.7, 4.1, 6.1, 6.3, 6.4

Task Length:

Due Date:

Week 14

Weight:

40 %

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CRITERION