Title: Assessment Task: Essay: Personal teaching and learning philosophy
1. Demonstrate understanding of policy, practice guidelines and principles in key early years education documents used in local contexts.
2. Prepare a well-informed personal learning and teaching philosophy that reflects foundational philosophy and contemporary models of early years education.
Details of task:
Using the set readings and additional literature of your choice, you are required to consider and address the following topics.
? Briefly discuss why you want to become an early childhood teacher (500 words).
? Reflect on your experiences as a learner, your beliefs about teaching and what you consider are the attributes of a good
teacher.
? Briefly discuss early childhood education in Australia today (500 words)
? Provide the context for your philosophy of early childhood education.
? Outline your own philosophy of early childhood education. (1,000)
? Discuss and reflect your professional values and beliefs and link your statements to the literature, theories of early childhood education, and/or national and international trends or approaches you are drawing on.
Reference-
1. Programming and planning in early childhood setting, 6th edition
2. Belonging being & becoming - The Early Years Learning Framework for Australia.
Textbook - Foundations and Best Practices in EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATON- History, Theories and Approaches to Learning by Lissanna Follari.
Words: 2200.
Harvard Referencing.
Number of Refs: above 9.