Professional Experience Placement Digital Portfolio

TITLE: Professional Experience Placement Digital Portfolio

WEIGHTING: 50%

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

1. Acquired knowledge of relevant legislation, organisational policies and practices that govern professional practice and the role of the early childhood professional as a teacher.
2. Pedagogical principles and practices of the approved learning frameworks under the National Quality Framework to all aspects of the early childhood teaching role.
3. Perspectives of holistic development, dispositions, care, and inclusivity to facilitate each child’s rights, agency, identity, and well-being.
4. Pedagogies to create effective and engaging teaching and learning opportunities and environments for young diverse learners across the curriculum.
5. Critical thinking and reflection to begin formulating a personal teaching identity and commitment to continued professional learning and development.

LENGTH:

Website- up to 16 pages (1 page per week) + 4 DAP + 5 Pedagogical Documentations + 3 Curriculum Plans

DUE: Every week

During placement, you will develop and build a Digital 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. Your professional experience portfolio is a living tool that you will continue to add onto throughout your final placement units. Ensure your professional experience portfolio includes:

An overview of the service context.

Your engagement with the elements of professional practice, including:

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 in relation to:

intentional teaching and facilitation of children’s learning and holistic development in communication, language and literacy; mathematics, STEM and STEAM; music, dance, movement, and drama, visual and media arts

teaching an individual child, and small and large groups of children