Description
EDU30006: Families, Community and Citizenship
Assignment 3: Reflection
Word limit: 1500 (+/- 10%)
Weighting: 40%
Due date: 5pm AEST Monday 30 September 2024 (Week 12)
Assignment overview
Teaching practices are greatly influenced by our personal values and attitudes. This assignment is an opportunity for you to reflect critically on families, communities and children’s citizenship. This reflection will help you to identify your values and attitudes and think critically about how these may have an impact on your teaching practice.
This assignment supports unit learning outcomes 2, 3 and 4.
Assignment details
This assignment requires you to write a 1500-word reflection in which you articulate your personal values and attitudes in relation to young children’s citizenship and working with families and communities in early childhood education. Modules A (Weeks 1–4), B (Weeks 5–8) and C (Weeks 9–11) have covered the contents of this assignment. That is, you need to revisit the readings and activities throughout all three modules as well as any relevant notes for your reflection. This assignment comprises two parts:
Part A (750 words)
Reflect on your values and attitudes towards communities and citizenship and reflect on how these values and attitudes impact your teaching. You may reflect on how you selected resources in teaching citizenship in your Assignment 1: Portfolio https://swinburneonline.instructure.com/courses/5522/assignments/49448 2/7 (https://swinburneonline.instructure.com/courses/5522/assignments/49446) OR you may describe a related incident from your experience at work or on placement.
Part B (750 words)
Reflect on strategies that aim to strengthen a range of collaborations and connections with families and broader community. Your reflection must show a clear understanding of a range of theoretical perspectives related to families and community. You may reflect on your experience working on Assignment 2: Case study (https://swinburneonline.instructure.com/courses/5522/assignments/49447) or you may describe a related incident from your experience at work or on placement.
Reflection model
For Parts A and B, you will follow a SAID model for reflection. Follow the headings for your reflection.
Situation: What happened? (100 words)
Briefly describe the incident or experience you will reflect on
Affect: What was its impact on you personally and professionally? (200 words)
What are your personal and professional beliefs that are related to the incident/experience?
What are your values and assumptions?
Cite literature wherever appropriate.
Interpretation: What did you learn from the experience? (350 words)
Why did you react/do that way?
What could be done differently?
Cite literature to support your points.
Decision: What did you decide to do next (improve your practice)? (100 words)
Decision must be feasible and actionable.
Throughout your teaching and learning journey, you will be required to use the nationally approved learning frameworks (the Early Years Learning Framework or the Australian Curriculum) or the approved learning frameworks for your state or territory. To help you further build capability in this area, and to prepare you for placements, at Swinburne Online you may choose to use the nationally approved learning frameworks or the approved learning frameworks for your state or territory in your assignments. For further information specific to your assignments for this specific unit, please seek advice from your OLAs and/or your Unit Coordinator.
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