Description of Task
Aim: To showcase your ability to recognise the way in which early childhood teachers inform and justify teaching practice.
This task has been broken into three sections. Create your response in a word document and use subheadings to signpost the different sections.
Section 1: Explaining how your philosophy informs your practice (500 words)
Explain how the ideas you presented in your graduate philosophy inform your practice.
You will need to include:
Examples from your teaching experiences
References to theoretical perspectives, research, learning frameworks, and/or educational policy to further support your discussion
Section 2: Using your philosophy to create a provocation (500 words)
Further illustrate how your graduate philosophy informs your practice by explaining a provocation that reflects how you engage children in learning.
An explanation of the provocation
An image of the provocation
The intent behind the provocation and how this is supported by the learning frameworks you use when planning and documenting teaching and learning (this may vary depending on the state/territory you work in)
Research or theory that relates to your provocation
Section 3: Reflecting on your choice of research and theory (600 words)
Reflect on the research and theory you have used to explain your philosophy and practice by responding to the following questions:
Does your philosophy and practice draw on theoretical perspectives, research, learning frameworks, and/or educational policy?
Is there one research/theoretical perspective that is key to informing your philosophy and practice or do you draw on multiple perspectives? Why?
Why are these perspectives important/valuable?
Are there additional research/theoretical perspectives that you should continue to build knowledge about to support further development? Note: These questions are a guide only; you do not need to respond to them using a question-and-answer format .
You could use these sentence starters to explain your ideas:
My practice is heavily influenced by…
This research/theoretical perspective is important because…
Drawing on research/theoretical perspectives is important because…
This research/theoretical perspective/article informs my practice because…
It is recommended that 3-4 peer reviewed journal articles ( published in the past ten years) are included in your submission.
All in-text citations need to be reflective of APA7 and included in your final reference list.
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