EDEC360 - Assessment 2: Professional Resource Portfolio

Task description

Australian Professional Standards for Teachers resource portfolio and supporting reflective statement including research literature review.

This assignment requires a submission of an ePortfolio based on the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers Graduate level as presented throughout the Module Topics. You will include a reflective statement supported by contemporary research literature providing evidence for the selection of supporting strategies included in your portfolio (2000 words). The expectation is that the Learning Outcomes of this unit guide each student’s selection of APST, and selection of resources with accompanying reflective statement using the readings from this unit. The analysis should demonstrate why and what you have learnt as you developed your professional identity throughout this unit and include evidence from your appendix. Your analysis must include references to the resources in the portfolio and to the relevant literature that helped you construct your analysis. At least 20 references expected for a 2000 word assignment.

Note 1: In preparation for this assignment, you will develop your assignment each week as you construct your professional identity in relation to the 12 topics. You are required to complete reflections upon each of the resources chosen in relation to the teaching and learning modules. Guidance on how to undertake those reflections will be provided in the unit. The next step is to analyse your own Weekly Reflections with regard to the reading and research you have done in relation to the focus topic. Remember, you are not limiting yourself to WHAT you are learning but WHY it is making a difference to you. You then need to analyse all of your reflections, and decide which ideas, research literature and supporting strategies have been most important to you. Your reflections and their analysis are on-going; you will have less work at the end of the semester if you complete reflections and their analysis throughout the semester as you select your resources.

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Note 2: Structure your portfolio beginning with the APST, then include the names of the relevant topics, followed by the resource, then the statement supported by research literature.

Note 3: You will select your platform for your eportfolio in the first week of the study period and begin to develop it.

Note 4: Include an appendix with evidence of your completion of Module Four activities at the end of your assignment. 

In addition to submitting an e-portfolio, you will also submit a single document in Turnitin including all text submitted in your e-portfolio.

Assignments submitted which do not include both an e-portfolio submission as well as the whole text submitted in one document on the Turnitin portal will receive a fail for non-submission of the set task.

CHOOSE YOUR DIGITAL PLATFORM IN WEEK 1

Examples include: Wix, Weebly, Mahara Eportfolio, One Note, Canva, Blogging site etc. 

Word count: The headings, the APST, the resource, the references, the link to the resource (if one is available) will not be included in the word count. 

All 14 of the APST in the unit outline are required to be completed individually. This would result in one high level quality paragraph per APST. 

Paragraph structure should be as follows (though don't use the words point, evidence, relevance - join the three parts of the paragraph together to make one cohesive, high level paragraph):

Point - Importance of this APST in relation to the topics.

Evidence - Provide high quality references as part of your literature review (references don't count in the word limit so this is where you have an opportunity to show your understanding of the readings and the independent research you have been undertaking in relation to strategies, communication, collaboration with stakeholders etc.).  

Relevance - why is this relevant to you as a professional (this is your guided reflective component) and can be written in first person.

I recommend an introductory sentence or two at the start of your portfolio. It doesn't need to be long. Check the rubric to ensure you are covering the main concepts for the assignment in this section.

A note about word counts in general which may help:

In APA it is acceptable to submit an assignment with 10% over or under the word limit. This means you can submit 1800 - 2200 words and be within accepted range.

The word limit helps you to move from a descriptive style of writing (which takes many words), to a more factual style of writing (which requires less words because you state the conceptual fact and reference it - no need for further description).