Essay Portfolio of Teaching And Learning Materials – Major Teaching Area – Academic Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Task Description 

This task requires you to apply core concepts of the unit to develop a Portfolio of teaching and learning materials for a Junior Secondary class. The Portfolio will demonstrate your ability to apply subject knowledge and pedagogy skills in your major teaching area. 

The unit requirements include both formative and summative assessment tasks. A series of 3 milestone formative tasks will be completed throughout the term and will be supported through the unit materials provided on the Moodle site for your major teaching area. These formative tasks will be used to build the skills and knowledge required for you to complete the summative task and to provide opportunities for you to get feedback as you build and develop your ideas. The summative task requires you to develop a detailed unit of work, and annotate this unit of work to demonstrate your understanding of curriculum and pedagogy in your major teaching area. 

Part A – Milestone formative assessment tasks and the provision of feedback–5 marks toward your grade for Task 1 

The following formative tasks are to be uploaded to your major teaching area forum in the weeks indicated: · Forum entry – provide a description of a unit of work, including the unit title. year level and duration, and the unit context information (including the key questions/topics). Identify the curriculum – select the content descriptors to be used in the unit; identify general capabilities and cross-curriculum priorities; highlight the relevant parts of the achievement standard; identify relevant prior and 'working towards' curriculum, bridging content and links to other learning areas. Record these in the summative assessment template. 

· Forum entry – provide a brief unit overview; this will comprise at least 6 weeks of lessons for the major teaching area. Identify for each lesson: link(s) to content descriptors; a description of the teaching strategies and learning experiences (including the lesson topic, learning goal(s), resources, and student activities); opportunities for feedback to students, and a series of questions to evaluate the unit. Record this information in the Teaching and Learning and Use feedback sections of the summative assessment template.

· Forum entry – provide a detailed description of the assessment (including timing and links to making judgments) for the unit of work. Record this information in the Assessment section of the summative assessment unit template.

The teaching area forum expert will provide feedback on your forum entries.  

You are to provide targeted feedback to two peers on each of the formative tasks. Guidelines for this feedback will be provided on the Moodle site. The evidence of these forum entries will be recorded on a Formative Tasks feedback table and submitted with your summative task. 

Part B – Summative assessment task – toward your grade for Task 1 

This summative assessment task will reflect the key understandings explored in online Moodle materials and the work you have already done in the formative assessment tasks.

The task is as follows: 

An introductory statement that discusses how this unit of work is informed by the intent of the curriculum in your major teaching area, your choice of a pedagogical framework and your understanding of pedagogical content knowledge in your major teaching area (400 words). 

A detailed unit of work that demonstrates your understanding of planning processes, a range of teaching strategies, differentiation for a range of learners and the use of resources suitable for this teaching area. This unit will also demonstrate understandings about curriculum frameworks. 

Annotations on the unit of work that indicate and explain your choice of a range of targeted and purposeful teaching strategies and resources suitable for the needs of Junior Secondary learners in this teaching area. These annotations will indicate and explain where you have deliberately developed literacy or numeracy skills specific to the unit of work and the teaching area. They will also indicate and explain where you have used formative assessment strategies to assess students’ development of the knowledge and skills needed to demonstrate their learning in the final summative assessment task.