TITLE: Documenting, assessing, planning, and designing engaging play-based literacy and numeracy experiences for young children
WEIGHTING: 30%
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Reflect on contemporary research and practices to understand the significance of functional and social literacy and numeracy for young children within their community contexts.
Evaluate pedagogical practices and approaches to create differentiated learning environments and opportunities that acknowledge young children’s literacy and numeracy diversity.
Analyse and apply pedagogical knowledge and skills to document, assess, plan and design engaging play-based literacy and numeracy experiences for children in a variety of early childhood environments and curriculum areas.
LENGTH: 2000 words
DUE: Nov 06
For the assessment task, you will need to compose a pedagogical documentation record based on the Colorado Department of Education. (2021, Jul 31). The Three Little Pigs [Video]. YouTube.
Ensure that your pedagogical documentation:
1. Pedagogically documents and identifies the children’s literacy and numeracy development, dispositions, and learning.
2. Provides a further three (3) engaging play-based literacy and numeracy investigations to be incorporated into the curriculum for the children. Each of these investigations must link in some way and extend the children’s acquisition of further literacy and numeracy learning.
Note: Pedagogical documentation requires you to use vocabulary that describes children’s and educators’ thinking and finds ways to make that thinking visible. It is a means of analysing what lies beneath the play experiences to find the questions being asked and the learning that occurs. It is a tool for teachers to gather information to create meaning.
