ASSESSMENT 2: Portfolio
Summary
| Title | Assessment 2: Portfolio |
|---|---|
| Due Date | Saturday 19 April 2025 11:59pm AEST (Week 6) |
| Length | 1500 words |
| Weighting | 50% |
| Submission | 1 Word document submitted to Turnitin |
| Academic Integrity (See below for limits of use where GenAI is permitted) | In this assessment task, the use of GenAI is allowed but limited.
You may only use GenAI to help guide you in the process of completing your assessment work. Think of it as a tool. A quick way to access information or an AI tutor to help answer your questions. So, you can use GenAI to help guide your research, research, ask questions to help to clarify your understanding, brainstorm preliminary ideas, get feedback on your ideas and clarify concepts. Remember, just as if you Googled something, you still need to evaluate the information to determine its accuracy and relevance. GenAI can produce biased and false information. You must find scholarly sources to support any of the ideas generated. This is a requirement for this assessment. You cannot include any text content generated AI in your assessment (even if you have paraphrased, summarised or quoted the output). You are permitted to use GenAI to create images where stated in the task. You are also permitted to use Grammarly Premium to help edit and improve the quality of your written work. If you opt to use GenAI as defined as acceptable for this assessment, you must keep evidence of how it was used and acknowledge how you used it in the process of completing your assessment appropriately. To help understand what to do, consult the Learning Zone’s resources:
If you use GenAI tools in your assessment task beyond the acceptable limits, it may result in an academic integrity breach against you as described in the Student Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct Rules, Section 3. Under the Rules - Student Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct Rules (Section 3) students have the right to Appeal against the Academic Integrity Officers academic misconduct Determination, to the Executive Dean, with that determination being final and conclusive, and not subject to further Appeal within the University. Students are not able to appeal against academic misconduct via the Unit Assessor or staff unit. |
| Unit Learning Outcomes | You will demonstrate the following Unit Learning Outcomes upon the successful completion of this task:
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Task Description
This task requires you to reflect upon the Early Years Learning Framework [EYLF] (Australian
Government Department of Education [AGDE], 2022) principles and practices and create a portfolio
demonstrating your ability to identify and critique high-quality early childhood pedagogy.
Rationale
Early childhood educators are required to understand the importance of high-quality practice and be
able to identify what high-quality practice looks like. In this assessment, you will be asked to identify
high-quality practice and determine the principles, theory and research that underpins such practice.
This assessment aims to develop your understanding of how to align practice, principles, theory and
research.
Creative Task Choices:
| Written Statement (250 words) | Letter to Future Self (250 words) | Labelled Classroom Diagram and 100-Word Statement |
|---|---|---|
| Clearly identify and explain the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Provide examples of how the principle or practice is applied in practice in early childhood education and care settings. Critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis. | Write a letter to your future teacher self, identifying and explaining the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Share examples of how you hope to apply the principle or practice in your future early childhood education and care setting. Critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis. | Write a brief written explanation (100 words) of the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Then, create a diagram of a Preschool (3-5 years) setting that demonstrates how the principle or practice is applied in the preschool setting. Each element on the diagram must include a detailed label to show how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing.
Your diagram can be hand drawn, or you can create it in Word or PowerPoint. You may use Generative Artificial Intelligence to create the images. You must NOT use it to create the written explanation. |
| Visual Journal Entry (250 words) | Short Video (2 minutes) | Mini Podcast Episode (2 minutes) |
| Write a journal entry that clearly identifies and explains the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Provide examples of how the principle or practice is applied in practice in early childhood education and care settings. Critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis.
Finally, add images to show examples of how the principle or practice is applied in practice in early childhood education and care settings. |
Create a short video where you clearly identify and explain the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Provide examples of how the principle or practice is applied in early childhood education and care settings. Critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis.
Ensure your video can be accessed via link and paste this onto your word document. Videos that cannot be accessed will not be marked and this will affect your assessment grade. |
Record a mini podcast episode where you clearly explain the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Provide examples of how the principle or practice is applied in practice in early childhood education and care settings. Critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis.
Ensure your podcast can be accessed via link and paste this onto your word document. Podcasts that cannot be accessed will not be marked and this will affect your assessment grade. |
| Blog Post (250 words) | Teaching Resource and 250-Word Statement | Brochure for Families (250 words) |
| Write a blog post that clearly explains the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Provide examples of how the principle or practice is applied in practice in early childhood education and care settings. Critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis. | Create a teaching resource for Preschool aged children with a play and diversity focus. Take a photo of the teaching resource and write a 250-word supporting statement. In your statement briefly explain the chosen principle or practice and how the teaching resource you have created supports the principle or practice. Then, critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis. | Design a brochure for families that clearly explains the principle or practice using the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 as your supporting resource. Provide examples of how the principle or practice is applied in practice in early childhood education and care settings and how families could apply it at home. Critically analyse how the principle or practice supports children’s learning, development, and wellbeing – making links to at least three professional and academic sources to support your analysis. |
Late Submissions & Penalties
Except when special consideration is awarded, late submission of assessment tasks will lead
automatically to the imposition of a penalty. Penalties will be incurred as soon as the deadline is
reached.
• 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
• 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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