Essay Inclusive Educational Resource – Education Studies Assignment Help

Assignemnt Task :

Introduction
You will be designing an original and inclusive educational resource with a civic purpose related to increasing participation for a designated group. You will choose and research an organisation for which to design this resource, establish the relevant global, national and organisational policy frameworks informing your design work and incorporate relevant pedagogical principles and strategies we have discussed in the unit. In this process, you will be meeting an authentic need that you have identified, and demonstrating your potential to make a critical and creative impact though this resource. This task links closely to Assessment Task 2, so you will need to be able to try this resource out on your lecturer, peers and intended audience as the basis of a reflective essay for Task 2.
This assessment task (2600 words equivalent) is worth 60% of the total assessment for this unit. 
This assessment task is to be submitted via the assignments folder in CloudDeakin by 11.59pm on Friday 28th April 2020.
 

Aim
The aim of this assessment is to:

• Enable you to synthesise and demonstrate your evolving understanding of educational principles and strategies in relation to inclusive design of a a resource, as per the first unit outcome.
• Demonstrate, in a practical and applied way, your evolving critical cultural competence, empathy and sensitivity to the needs of diverse audiences.
• Provide you with the opportunity to develop skills in communication and problem solving.
• Contribute to the development of a resource for inclusion in your professional portfolio.

Process
1. In consultation with your tutor, identify a group whose participation you wish to support through designing a resource to overcome barriers.
2. Select an organisation that would publish your resource. Research the goals and needs of your chosen organisation and imagine you are working for them to plan an original resource to achieve these goals, and your own. You could design a teacher guide, a toolkit, a policy document, a camp program, a professional learning program, a website, a creative work such as a collection of poetry, an app, a festival proposal, a toy etc. If it is not feasible to actually make your resource (eg. an Indigenous garden for a local school or council) you can submit your design documentation.
3. Research and identify global, national and local policies that will inform your design work. Clarify how your resource will comply with or even go beyond these policies, to meet identified needs.
4. Design your resource, using the pedagogical principles and strategies of inclusion and accessibility discussed in the unit. Your resource needs to enhance participation in the broader cultural sense, but also be practically accessible to diverse audiences. 
5. Write a positioning statement explaining any of the above that is not clearly stated in the resource itself. Your positioning statement should also explain how your resource differs from anything similar already available, and how you will evaluate your resource