Assessment Task 3 – ePortfolio
After Professional Praxis 1, you selected evidence from tasks completed during the placement that align with the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (Graduate Career Stage).
After Professional Praxis 2, you will also provide evidence with a particular focus on two Standards plus responding to more Guiding Self-Reflective Impact Questions.
This task is structured in two parts:
Part A: Evidence and Annotation (1000 words)
Standard 4 – Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments.
You are to source evidence of this Standard by addressing each of the Focus Areas below:
4.1 Support student participation – Identify strategies to support inclusive student participation and engagement in classroom activities.
4.2 Manage classroom activities – Demonstrate the capacity to organise classroom activities and provide clear directions.
4.3 Manage challenging behaviour – Demonstrate knowledge of practical approaches to manage challenging behaviour.
4.4 Maintain student safety – Describe strategies that support students wellbeing and safety working within school and/or system, curriculum and legislative requirements.
4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically – Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant issues and the strategies available to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching.
You need to provide one (1) artefact per Focus Area above and include a brief (100 word) annotation per artefact which explains how the Focus Area has been demonstrated through this artefact.
Standard 6 – Engage in professional learning
6.1 – Identify and plan professional learning needs – Demonstrate an understanding of the role of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in identifying professional learning needs.
This Focus Area requires you to demonstrate an understanding of the role of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers in identifying your professional learning needs. You will need to write a brief (no more than 500 words) statement that reflects your professional growth during Professional Praxis 2 with a particular focus on Standard 4 considering:
How have you used the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers to identify your professional learning needs during this placement?
Which areas of Standard 4 do you consider to be your strengths?
Which areas of Standard 4 do you consider being your challenges and how are you going to address these?
Part B: Guiding Self-Reflective Impact Questions (1000 words)
To place a specific focus on how you demonstrate a positive impact on student learning, you must answer a series of Guiding self-reflective impact questions as part of your ePortfolio to assist in providing evidence you have enacted on this particular placement. Your response to these questions should not exceed 1000 words. A copy of the Guiding self-reflective impact questions is available below.
The questions focus explicitly on a direct reference in the tasks completed on this placement to the positive impact you have had on student learning that was enacted on this placement and serves as a record of your positive impact on student learning.
Each Professional Praxis placement builds on each other, as does the evidence (artefacts) collected and the narrative which builds your knowledge, understanding and demonstration of your positive impact on student learning through the ePortfolio.
Central to the narrative that is developed are the Guiding self-reflective impact questions. Each Professional Praxis unit has a set of questions that link to the intent and focus of the professional experience placement. You are to use these questions to frame your narrative for the evidence collected in the ePortfolio and provide an account of your positive impact on student learning.
The design of these focus questions has been backward mapped from the requirements of the Graduate Teacher Performance Assessment (GTPA) task (embedded within Professional Praxis 4) to ensure you have an understanding where and how you have demonstrated your positive impact.
As illustrated in the Guiding self-reflective impact questions table, each Professional Praxis unit has a set of questions. The first set of questions (Question 1 – 6) were responded to in Professional Praxis 1. Then in Professional Praxis 2, the set of questions specific to this placement (Questions 7 13) are to be responded to. The same process will then occur for Professional Praxis 3 where all 20 questions should be consulted in the construction of the final narrative (with a specific focus on Questions 14 20).
This task is to be presented as one Word document with the artefacts embedded within the document (i.e. no appendices or additional files are to be uploaded).
A template has been provided for this task below.
