TCHR5009 THEORY TO PRACTICE: EDUCATION AND CARE FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS
Summary
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Assessment Task 1: Professional Philosophy and Critical Reflection
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Monday 13
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November 11:59pm AEDT
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Week 3
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GenAI
May Not be Used
Generative Artificial Intelligence (
GenAI
) tools, such as
ChatGPT
,
may not be used
for this Assessment Task. You are required to demonstrate if you have developed the unit’s skills and knowledge without the support of
GenAI
. If you use
GenAI
tools in your assessment task, it may result in an academic integrity breach against you as described in the
Student Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct Rules, Section 3
.
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Rationale
Students will reflect on their learning about theoretical perspectives and practices to develop their own teaching philosophy for teaching infants and toddlers. Students will reflect on this philosophy and how it may translate to practice.
Task Description
This report is comprised of two tasks and should be presented in ONE word document.
Part
1: Professional Philosophy (750 words)
Develop your professional philosophy statement for working with infants and toddlers in an early childhood setting. Consider important aspects of infant and toddler learning, health and safety and development. Consider unit topics such as relationships, quality, attachment, brain development, routines and the physical and human environment. You can also include topics that are of interest to you.
Part
2: Critical Reflection (750 words)
Critically reflect on your philosophy above, and identify 3 anticipated challenges you may face when putting your philosophy into practice. How do you intend to overcome these challenges? Analyse according to the set text, and the National Quality Standard and Early Years Learning Framework (V2.0).
Follow the steps to complete the task:
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Create a new Word Document and save it with your surname and initials and the assessment task’s name.
E.g
: MillsA_assessment1_philosophy
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Create a cover page with the following details:
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Student name and Student ID
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Unit code and name
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Unit Assessor and Tutor names
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Date submitted
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Complete professional philosophy (750 words) and critical reflection (750 words)
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Complete one reference list on word document
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Check draft with draft checker on unit site
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Once complete, submit final task via the Turnitin link in the Assessment and Submission section of the unit site.
Referencing
APA7th referencing format is required with a minimum of 5 references. Sources should include relevant early childhood policy and peer-reviewed literature. Students must use the unit textbook.
Resources
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Australian Government Department of Education. (2022)
Belonging, being and becoming: The early years learning framework for Australia
(V2.0).
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Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority (n.d.).
Developmental milestones and the Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standards.
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Sims, M., & Hutchins, T.
(
2020
).
Program planning for infants and toddlers
(3
rd
ed).
Pademelon Press
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Task Submission
Assessments should be submitted using the
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link on the
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section on the Blackboard site. Only Microsoft Word documents submitted via the Turnitin portal on Blackboard will be accepted. You must label your submission with your surname and initials and the assessment task's name.
Academic Integrity
At Southern Cross University academic integrity means behaving with the values of honesty, fairness, trustworthiness, courage, responsibility, and respect in relation to academic work.
The Southern Cross University Academic Integrity Framework aims to develop a holistic, systematic, and consistent approach to addressing academic integrity across the entire University. For more information see the
SCU Academic Integrity Framework
NOTE
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Academic Integrity breaches include
poor referencing, not identifying direct quotations correctly, close paraphrasing, plagiarism, recycling, misrepresentation, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, fabricating information.
GenAI
May Not be Used
Generative Artificial Intelligence (
GenAI
) tools, such as
ChatGPT
,
may not be used
for this Assessment Task. You are required to demonstrate if you have developed the unit’s skills and knowledge without the support of
GenAI
. If you use
GenAI
tools in your assessment task, it may result in an academic integrity breach against you as described in the
Student Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct Rules, Section 3
.
Special Consideration
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Late Submissions & Penalties
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a penalty of 5% of the available marks will be deducted from the actual mark at one minute after the time listed in the due date
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a further penalty of 5% of the available mark will be deducted from the actual mark achieved on each subsequent calendar day until the mark reaches zero.”
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https://policies.scu.edu.au/view.current.php?id=00255
Grades & Feedback
Assessments that have been submitted by the due date will receive an SCU grade. Grades and feedback will be posted to the ‘Grades and Feedback’ section on the Blackboard unit site. Please allow 7-10 days for marks to be posted.