Essay Social and Economic Development – Essay Writing Assignment Help

Assignment Task :

’There is now almost universal recognition around the world that ’teaching matters’ and that the quality of teaching is crucial in social and economic development. This is shown by the wide influence of international rankings and reports such as the OECD PISA and TALIS reports that compare the performance of school students, and the Mckinsey Reports that compare the economic performance of nations. Policymakers all over the world quote these reports.’ -Ian Menter is Vice-President, British Educational Research Association and Emeritus Professor of Teacher Education, University of Oxford presenting a lecture at What Is a Teacher In The 21st Century and What Does a 21st Century Teacher Need to Know? on Tuesday 26th April 2014.

Consider the quote from Professor Ian Mentor above. 

• Write a 2,000-word critical discussion that considers what quality teaching is and the current issues that contribute to teachers’ work and professionalism in Australia. 
• As a Master’s student, you are expected to demonstrate critical facilities and therefore can adopt your own position on this question, so long as you support your argument with academic sources to show that you have carefully considered the evidence informing your viewpoint. 
• In your response, we expect to see discussion about: 
• Teacher professionalism, incl. Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (APST) 
• Curriculum, incl. Australian Curriculum and NSW curriculum 
• Pedagogy, incl. NSW Quality Teaching model, Inquiry and Problem Based learning 
• Assessment, incl. National Assessment Program 
• Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN), PISA 10.
•  Better responses will demonstrate the interrelationship between teaching quality and curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment, and not just discuss these separately. 
• creating a critical discussion about quality teaching that may focus on teaching as a profession and how this is framed The Australian Graduate Teaching Standards, curriculum structures such as the Australian or state-based curriculum, models such as Quality Teaching or approaches to teaching/pedagogy and standardized testing such as Naplan or My schools’ website. 
• It not intended that you cover all aspects but choose relevant aspects/topics that enable you to engage with issues and debates about the importance of quality teaching, what is quality teaching, who and what frameworks measure or prescribe the profession. 
• Please refer to policy, curriculum documents and also to the literature on quality teaching or effective teaching. Use the quotation from Professor Ian Mentor in the Learning Guide to open up this critical discussion in your essay.
• Ensure your essay has a clear introduction, which previews your thesis (line of argument), has clearly developed paragraphs that build your arguments, and a strong conclusion which ties your arguments together. 
• A minimum of five peer-reviewed journal articles are required. Be sure to cite your sources and include a reference list, formatting both according to APA 6th Style.