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Professional Practice
Assessment Overview - This assessment requires you to create your graduate teaching portfolio.
Purpose: This assessment requires you to create your graduate teaching portfolio. Specifically, you will provide evidence of your ability to meet the graduate level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teaching by annotating a collection of artefacts from your placements that illustrate your practice in relation to these graduate standards.
Learning Outcome 1: the Graduate level of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.
Assessment Structure
The portfolio is a tool that helps you to gather evidence of your skills, reflect on your experiences and recognise your improvement and development over time. In addition to encouraging reflective thinking and the development of lifelong learning skills, a portfolio enables you to build a comprehensive repository of information. This will provide you with a valuable resource for demonstrating your skills, knowledge, and achievements to prospective employers. No AI shortcuts - Just Genuine Assignment Help from Real Tutors.
You will be required to gather artefacts from your placements and articulate what is made visible through the presence of the artefact, referring specifically to the standard, as well as your personal philosophy in relation to this standard.
Your artefacts should provide an example of the breadth of your abilities. Therefore, you should collect a variety of different types of evidence such as: pedagogical narrations, observations, planning, photos of environments, work with all age groups, letters, inquiry project summaries, reflective practice protocols, narratives etc.
Instructions
To get started on your assessment task, please follow the below instructions.
Portfolio Format: Select the application you wish to use for your portfolio. You may use teaching portfolio programs or standard applications such as Microsoft Word. Ensure that any subscription-based platform allows you to download your work if you discontinue the service.
Artefact Selection: Review the artefacts collected during your placement experiences. Choose two artefacts as evidence for each of the Australian
Professional Standards for Teachers (APST), totaling 14 artefacts. Include a
variety of evidence types to demonstrate the breadth of your teaching
abilities. Ensure your portfolio includes work with both B-2 and 3-5-year-old children.
Artefact Descriptions: Each artefact must be accompanied by a short description explaining what is made visible through the artefact and how it connects to your personal teaching philosophy and the APST.
Portfolio Presentation: Ensure your portfolio is professionally presented and easy to navigate. Use clear headings, subheadings, and a table of
contents. Organise your portfolio by APST standards using their full names. Maintain clarity and spacing throughout the document.
Portfolio Discussion Requirement: In week 8, you are required to attend and participate in a scheduled portfolio discussion. During this discussion, you will present your teaching philosophy and answer guided questions from your lecturer that explain how your selected artefacts align with the APST. This discussion will be assessed as part of your final grade.
Discussion Expectations:
Attend a scheduled discussion session with your instructor or mentor.
Present and explain your teaching philosophy as included in your portfolio.
Discuss at least three artefacts and how they demonstrate your alignment with APST.
Reflect on how your experiences and artefacts represent your growth and understanding as a teacher.
Be ready to reflect on your learning journey and respond to questions spontaneously.
Include a title page, table of contents, your early childhood focused resume, your philosophy statement, and discussion and artefacts for each of the seven teaching standards.
There is no need to provide evidence for each of the sub-standards for this task, however, you can refer to the sub-standards that are evident in your artefacts and each sub-standard should be listed.
Make sure to use APA 7 referencing for any citations and referencing.