PLAC908 Assessment 1: Professional Experience Placement Portfolio
Due Mar 10
TITLE: Professional Experience Placement Portfolio
WEIGHTING: 50%
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
- Acquired knowledge of relevant legislation, organisational policies and practices that govern professional practice and the role of the early childhood professional as a teacher.
- Pedagogical principles and practices of the approved learning frameworks under the National Quality Framework to all aspects of the early childhood teaching role.
- Perspectives of holistic development, dispositions, care, and inclusivity to facilitate each child’s rights, agency, identity, and wellbeing.
- Pedagogies to create effective and engaging teaching and learning opportunities and environments for young diverse learners across the curriculum.
LENGTH: Maximum 30 pages
During placement, you will develop and build a Professional Experience Placement Portfolio as a tool to evidence your teaching practices and achievement of placement activities and outcomes. The portfolio is a working document that should be maintained and updated daily to display activities, observations, and opportunities from throughout your placement. Ensure your professional experience portfolio includes:
- An overview of the service context.
- Your engagement with the elements of professional practice, including:
o the dimensions of professionalism
o declarations, conventions, obligations, and codes;
o national regulatory considerations;
o national quality standards;
o national curriculum frameworks;
o professional teaching standards;
o play pedagogies;
o educational program and practice and learning environment provision;
o respectful relationships and responsive engagement with children;
o partnerships, relationships and collaboration with families and communities;
o dignity, equity, diversity, cultural competence, and inclusion;
o respecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Cultures;
o exploring sustainability across the service;
o theoretical perspectives and pedagogy;
o understanding and supporting exceptionality;
o understanding and guiding children’s behaviour; and
o curriculum approaches and teaching strategies.
Ensure throughout your portfolio to include references to literature and theoretical perspectives as well as the use of vocabulary in accordance with the professionalism of an early childhood teacher.
