Essay TEPS703: Theorising our Teaching – Essay Writing Assignment help

Assignment Task:

A 2,000-word reflective essay, which draws on literature and reflective personal insights to deconstruct a teaching scenario.
Select a scenario provided by the teaching team and theorise (explain) this using the major learning theories (behaviors, constructivist and sociocultural). What does the scenario reveal about this teacher’s pedagogical approach including?
(i) relationships between teacher and students,
(ii) the selection of learning activities,
(iii) use of feedback and feed-forward?

This assignment requires you to:

1. Analyze and illustrate how we can use multiple theoretical perspectives to theorize the practice of the teacher in the scenario.
2. Critique the approach adopted in the scenario, by outlining the strengths and limitations of the practice.
3. Suggest and justify alternative approaches that could have been taken.
4. Relate analysis and critique to literature and your emerging personal philosophy of teaching.

Refer to the required reading list and consider referring to e.g:
•Barker and Bunting (2016)

•Barker (2012) •West-Burnham (n.d.)

•Watkins (2015)

•Marsh (2008)

•Slavin (2009)