ASSIGNMENT 3: INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION The purpose of this assignment is for you to have the opportunity to reflect on your new understandings about communities, families and children’s learning, health and well-being, and how this will influence your future practice. It requires you to produce an individual reflection based on literature, excerpts from online discussions and readings. LENGTH: 1000 words DETAILS This reflective essay is asking you to think about what you have learnt over the semester. You do not have to answer every prompt question provided, rather focus on what has been most important to you. Do however make sure you look at the assessment criteria to ensure you have fulfilled all the requirements. For instance, when you think about the research you have read about, how do you think it will influence your practices as a teacher, and how is the research influencing policy and practice in schools and early childhood education and care settings? Working as part of a group was a major part of this unit. So ...if you think about your experience working collaboratively, what strategies were effective and what could you do better next time, and how might this influence the educational leader you will be one day? Review the research, what does it say about the importance of collaboration for effective program delivery. Link this to what you might do to ensure you deliver effective services. In order to complete this assignment you need to: • Use vUWS to collaborate and share ideas during the semester. Post a comment by week 3 and contribute at least fortnightly to your group’s online discussions. Please note the content will be reviewed online and your contribution to the discussion will provide evidence of your collaboration within your group and this will influence your mark. • Review and reflect on readings, online learning modules, tutorial activities, interviews, project contributions and/or your online discussions. • Refer to at least 3 of your online discussions in your reflection and attach these to your assignment. • Reflect on the relevance of early intervention and prevention to current early childhood practice, how effectively you contributed to the group’s design and presentation of the project for Assignment 2, your impressions of the challenges and benefits of working in collaboration and the interrelationship between practice and research. • Explain specifically what you will do as a result of what you have learnt over the semester and how your practice might change. • Present your work professionally, demonstrating appropriate academic literacy including APA referencing. WHAT DO I NEED TO SUBMIT? 􀂈 Submit an individual reflection, referenced; 􀂈 Identify your group and project; 􀂈 In your appendix include a copy of the relevant online discussions (including the date submitted) that you have referred to in your reflection. Three(3) should be your postings in response to learning tasks over the semester. 1 0 2 1 0 2 C H I L D R E N F AMI L I E S C OMMU N I T I E S 1 H 2 0 1 7 􀂈 SUBMISSION DETAILS • Submit a draft of your assignment (not a PDF) to Turnitin by 9am, Monday 8th May, 2017 so you have time to review your Originality Report and edit your work. • Submit an electronic copy of your final assignment to Turnitin by 11.59pm, Sunday 14th May, 2017 (include your reference list and appendix). • Assignments submitted after the due date and time, without an approved extension, will be penalised 10% per day for late submission. • You must keep a copy of your assignment. LEARNING PORTFOLIO This assignment once marked will be a suitable artefacts to add to your Learning Portfolio. You should therefore download and keep a copy of you marked assignment so that later you can upload this file in your Weebly Learning Portfolio. You will reflect on it in relation to your learning progress and professional development, for the areas reflection and relationships. ASSESSMENT CRITERIA • Thoughtfully reflects on the relevance of early intervention and prevention to early childhood education. (5 marks) • Critically reflects on personal contribution to the group over the semester. (5 marks) • Reflects on the complexity of collaborative process and its implication for future practice as an early childhood teacher. (5 marks) • Reflects on and refers to literature, excerpts from online discussions and readings as a basis of reflection and to support reflections (5 marks) • Presents work professionally, with clear academic writing and within the word limit. • Uses the APA referencing style correctly for both in-text citations and reference list. EXAMPLES OF ASSIGNMENT 2 Annotated excerpts of assignments can be found in the assessment folder on the Unit’s vUWS site. ASSESSMENT STANDARDS The assessment standards outline what is expected for each of these criteria in order to pass this assignment, and to gain higher grades of credit, distinction and high distinction. All markers use these standards when assessing your work and you are strongly advised to use them to self-assess prior to submitting your assignment. 25