Essay Planned Pedagogy – Reflective Educational Leadership – Child Development Assignment Help

Assignment Task:

Learning outcomes:

• Identify, interpret and apply policies and quality standards for leadership and management in the early childhood
• Communicate professionally to parents, children, educational professionals and management, and government, and work collaboratively with stakeholders
• Identify and respond appropriately to legal responsibilities and ethical issues that arise in early childhood

Students are required to successfully complete and meet all the requirements of 10-day professional experience component with children between the age range of 3 to 5 years old at an early childhood setting.

Task 2 is a written component to assess students for their learning in preparation for their 10 days placement. This task involves your engagement in a range of activities to be conducted in an early childhood simulated setting. Preservice teachers are required to acquire pedagogical leadership knowledge and skills beyond the administrative role and responsibility. As a pedagogical leader, you need to be reflective and view yourself as “partners, facilitators, observers and co-learners alongside educators, children and families …to create systems and structures that support the values and vision….for growing a quality learning environment” (Coughlin & Baird, 2013, p.1).

Assessment 2 is divided into few parts and it requires you to:

Construct a set of reflective questions (10 questions) for the dialogue you would hold with your future Mentor by linking the principles of the Early Years Learning Framework. The developed questions aim to provide answers in guiding you through the day to day practices at the early years setting you will attend. The dialogue will provide insights such as routines, pedagogical approaches, learning experiences, philosophy and centre practices. Read through the task requirements and expectations listed and carefully consider the type of questions you would like to ask during the dialogue with the relevant person (s).List down the key questions in your submission for Part (I).

You will be provided 2 or 3 examples of a centres’ service philosophy (consolidated into ONE philosophy) )on Canvas for this next aspect of the task. Choose one which must be clearly identified and conduct the following:

Part (II)

Examine the centre service statement of philosophy, using your own words, provide brief succinct features of what the centre’s beliefs and values are, not the whole philosophy statement.

You will be provided examples such as photo/s and/or video of a centre’s learning environment to conduct the following.

Part (III)

a) Review the sample photo/s /video provided of the layout of the center’s learning environment and discuss it’s featured in relation to how the learning resources and play environment/s are organized to support children’s learning and

b) From the above parts of the task, discuss how Quality area 3 (Physical environment) of the National Quality Standards and EYLF are aligned to achieve children’s outcomes. Support and strengthen your discussion with relevant literature of educational leadership in early childhood from readings and contents in this

Part (IV)

Based on course content and readings, discuss broadly, the importance of family engagement and learning communities and provide information on how the sample center can support relationships in NQS Area 6.

Part V)

From a reflective educational leadership perspective of your professional learning experience to date (at the center/ kindergarten) discuss how you would collaborate with your future mentor to discuss developing an identified emergent curriculum plan of the learning experience of a selected area (eg, blocks, art and craft, language) to lead children’s learning. Discuss some of the planned pedagogy that you wish to adopt to promote children’s learning of the focused learning experience. Then imagine you have Implemented the activity to reflect on the experience. Discuss and link relevant examples from your identified pedagogy adopted of the imagined implemented curriculum to extend children’s learning or interests. Strengthen your discussion with the support of leadership literature from readings in this course.