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Education and Change, The Lifelong Learner

Assessment - Portfolio

Learning Outcome 1: Identify basic biopsychosocial changes and developments in the context of education

Learning Outcome 2: Understand the significance of social and emotional wellbeing on learning and learning and development.

Learning Outcome 3: Demonstrate how theories that inform learning and development are implemented in learning and teaching contexts.

Task Overview

Your task is to develop a reflective portfolio that will document personal responses to the various paradigms and theoretical frameworks that are put forward in this unit to explain biopsychosocial changes. Your portfolio will resemble a journal that contains several Important responses that will inform your teaching practice. This reflective portfolio aims to make connections between course material and instructional design as a future reference for teaching.

Rationale

The purpose of this task is to develop your understanding of paradigms and frameworks for understanding change, development and learning in childhood and adolescence and how this applies to educational principles and practices. To demonstrate your understanding, you will draw on the unit content, the recommended readings and other peer reviewed literature. Get top-notch online assignment help now.

All resources are available in the Assessment Tasks s Submission section of the unit Blackboard site.

Instructions

Steps
Respond to 3-4 items from the list below that demonstrates your engagement with the concepts and principles we are learning in this unit. You will need to integrate the relevant ideas and principles you are learning into your response for each item you select, to appropriately address the issues and/or questions inherent in the item. Use classroom examples where possible to illustrate your ideas and understanding.

Item 1 Considering the following statement, reflect on the degree to which nature (genes) and nurture (the environment) might influence an individual's sporting ability:

So, you've got your father's blonde hair and your mother's brown eyes - these are genetic traits. You and your family are also very good at sport. Is it your genes or your environment that's responsible for your sporting ability?

Item 2 Critically review the theoretical perspectives of Piaget, Vygotsky and Information Processing Theory as presented in the tutorials, and the readings. Choose one of these theories and reflect on how that theory can be applied to your teaching via a hypothetical classroom example.

Item 3 The development of vision in infancy, including acuity, colour perception, depth perception, face perception, and object perception, is essential to learning and development across the lifespan. Our experiences in moving, exploring independently, and manipulating materials contribute to our visual development. Briefly explain the implications this has for instructional guidance at the early childhood level, and discuss whether it can also have implications for teaching older children and students. You might like to include "epigenetics" to further your understanding of the nature/nurture relationship for this particular item, as this will give you additional insights into how the environment can affect genetic expression across development.

Item 4: How might scaffolding for the use of Vygotsky's ZPD need to be differentiated for a student who experiences generalised anxiety? Describe how you would approach this in relation to your KLA.

Item 5: a) Reflect on student wellbeing - What is wellbeing? Why is it important? What sorts of things effect it and what are the important wellbeing risk factors?

b) On the basis of these initial reflections, provide a clear example of how the classroom teacher can promote wellbeing.

Item C: According to ACARA the Australian Curriculum has ‘personal and social capability' as a general capability to be carried out across all learning areas. ACARA, 2017 states that:

Students develop personal and social capability as they learn to understand themselves and others, and manage their relationships, lives, work and learning more effectively....

Provide a theoretical analysis of why this statement is so relevant in classrooms and schools.

Criteria
Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant core concepts, principles, and practices
Demonstrate how theories that inform learning and development are implemented in learning and teaching contexts
Demonstrates the use of compelling statements and arguments to support a point of view.
Applies correct referencing when citing authors and listing references.

Your approach to writing the Reflective learning responses can be either of the following ways. The important point in either case is that your opinion must be clearly linked to theory, in order to demonstrate that you have understood the topic sufficiently.

Method 1:
State the reflection/opinion and give an explanation and an interpretation about that reflection. Provide a theoretical justification for the interpretation. This adds credibility to the interpretation. Draw a logical conclusion.

Method 1:
State the reflection/opinion and give an explanation and an interpretation about that reflection. Provide a theoretical justification for the interpretation. This adds credibility to the interpretation. Draw a logical conclusion.

Method 2:
State and explain the theory and provide the basis for the subsequent opinion.
Give the personal example and interpretation of that example in relation to the theory.
Draw the ideas presented to a logical conclusion i.e. an evaluation of the relevance of self-disclosure to the communication within the relationship.

Please use 12-point Times New Roman and use double line spacing as per APA 7th edition guidelines.