Literature Review and Reflective Narrative Task 2 Classroom music poster breaking down a whole note into half, quarter, eighth and sixteenth notes. This assignment asks you to: This assignment asks you to: 1. Find or take a photograph while on placement to use as a source of critical reflection. Do not take photos of children. You may only take photos of learning spaces, artefacts, learning activities or wall displays for this task. 2. Write a critical reflection based on the photograph, around the theme of “learner and teacher relationships with numeracy”. Support your critical reflection with evidence (visual data, storied data, reference to research literature from this and other units in the course, reference to policy from schools, centres and/or government websites). 2400-2500 words. 3. Write a one page professional learning plan for your own ongoing professional learning. The plan should start to address some of the professional gaps in knowledge and areas of interest which have been identified in the critical reflection, and in your placement report. A sample is provided. 500-600 words Note: References, photos/captions and appendices are not included in the word count. This will allow you to develop your critical narrative as fully as possible. Rationale: 1. The assignment is an opportunity to analyse and consolidate your learning in the program to date. You will write about your developing understandings, beliefs and values as an educator. The theme of “learner and teacher relationships with numeracy” will permit you to be succinct in your response while addressing some of the central ideas, theories and issues that you have engaged with so far. 2. One of the challenging tasks for teachers is to learning to recognise what, how, where, why and when learning is occurring. This task will help you to begin to develop these skills by practicing them on yourself. To do this you will analyse and discuss how and when shifts in your learning about teaching and learners have occurred in this program. 3. As teaching is a complex profession, you will need to use initiative and take responsibility for your own ongoing independent learning. This task will help you to begin the process of identifying your unique needs and gaps in professional learning, and what you might do to address them. Many of you will have made, or may be about to make your first attempt at the LANTITE test for Literacy and Numeracy and this will, no doubt, be part of the critical reflective narrative and perhaps, your professional learning plan. The key points • ‘Literature Review’ means you reference widely and demonstrate good familiarity with the theories of learning and bodies of literature that support your emerging understandings • ‘Reflective Narrative’ means this is a document of your own personal and unique learning or journey. We want to know about what is important to you in education, and why. We want to know how and why your views developed and how your understandings have shifted. You can exercise some choice about the structure: for example, use a chronological ‘journey narrative’ beginning with your understandings on entering the program and structured around subsequent shifts in understanding; or alternatively, a more conventional essay structured around 2-3 central themes in your developing teaching values. Make sure you tell us what these beliefs and values will look in practice – what will you actually do in the classroom or learning site to enact these values? Your Literature Review and Reflective Narrative should be approximately 2400-2500 words • This discussion should lead naturally to a plan for ongoing professional learning that identifies your specific needs, and the specific actions, resources, and timeframes for undertaking this learning. Your learning should be around 500-600 words. Assignment 2 Marking criteria unpacked MARKING CRITERIA (equally We will look for a response that considers some but not all of the following questions… weighted). The submitted task: Analyses evidence (visual data, storied data, What does the photograph tell you about numeracy in learning? What does gaps and questions does it open references to research literature and up for further investigation? How does it link with your references to policy) to critically reflect on emergent understandings about learning theory and and discuss their own relationship with the learner/teacher identity? How does this connect, general capability – numeracy, the impact that challenge or reflect your own learner relationship with this might have on their teaching and how this numeracy? How is your experience different to or the might enhance their understanding of their same as your learners on placement? What is your learners and their relationships to learning. understanding of the interdisciplinary connections between numeracy and other subject disciplines? What ULO 1, 3, 4, 5 does the learner perception of themselves in relation to numeracy mean for teachers and teaching? Learners and learning? What are your expectations of yourself and the teaching profession, more broadly, in relation to numeracy? Creates a cohesive and theoretically informed What do you know and understand about the broader response to the central research theme knowledge and practice of education that you didn’t know before? To what extent have you analysed how “learner and teacher relationships with numeracy” placement, artefacts from your portfolio, discussions, that identifies links between emerging and literature have prompted these shifts and deepened beliefs, theory and practice and shifts in or changed your understanding? To what extent have thinking (from personal to professional you used a wide range of literature to explore and understandings) related to learners, learning, deepen your understandings and independently located literature to pursue your own interests? teachers, teaching by connecting emerging beliefs to a wide range of relevant, academic literature. Outlines and justifies a plan for ongoing How well have you demonstrated that you are taking responsibility for your own development as a teacher professional learning based on these critical by outlining a workable plan for ongoing professional reflections and the discussions with supervising learning? Have you identified your own professional mentor teachers in the placement context. The questions, aims, gaps and areas of need and discussed plan should draw on your reflective work in this why these are important for your learners? Have you task, your professional experience report and your presented some preliminary research identifying professional experience portfolio and journal to specific steps, people and resources which you might justify inclusion of specific elements in your draw on? To what extent have you identified when and learning plan. how you intend to implement this plan? Have you ULO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 included the feedback from others in helping you to identify gaps and construct your professional learning plan? The submitted task is logically and clearly Have you structured, expressed and referenced your structured, and free from spelling, ideas in a way that is not only appropriate for a Masters grammatical and typographical errors. It level audience but in a way that engages your reader? meets the required length (+/-10%) and REFERENCING, PROOFREADING, EDITING, complies with Australian academic rules and PRESENTATION, LANGUAGE, GRAMMAR, SYNTAX, conventions. It is referenced (as necessary) PROFESSIONALISM, WORD COUNT. through the consistent and accurate use of a recognised referencing convention. You only have a small word count so you need to develop a critical narrative that really tells us who you want to be as a teacher and how you are working to get yourself to that point. To do this you will need to be selective and stick to some central ideas. SAMPLE Professional Learning Plan: Your learning plan might include 2 or more ideas similar to the following; My Professional Learning Plan 2017 Nature of the Professional My Learning Objective to My Success Criteria Learning Gap address this gap e.g. In my critical reflective By the end of the year I will seek By mid-year I will: narrative I realized that I out opportunities improve my - revisit my LANTITE results to understand my have low learner optimism confidence in Literacy and gaps in literacy and numeracy. in relation to literacy and Numeracy. - access the Study Support website for numeracy. This makes me LANTITE preparation and engage with the specifically nervous about By the end of the year I will have resources. interpreting data and a better understanding of learner By end-year I will: communicating with data and how it is used. - Have sought out opportunities to talk with parents. It may have had an my mentor teachers about how they use impact on my LANTITE test By the end of the year I will seek learners data results. My mentor also out opportunities to improve my - Have sought out opportunities to sit with my made comments on my confidence and communication mentor during meetings with parents spoken communication in with parents. my report. e.g. In preparing for my By mid-year I will get my By April I will: critical narrative and other Trimester 1 unit resources - Have downloaded EndNote and aspects of study in my organized and have settled on an completed the online training course, I realized that I am ongoing system for the - Have downloaded all the readings from not as organized with my remainder of my study. my units of study to date and organized resources as I could be. them for future use. By June I will: - Have created the structure for my professional experience portfolio and have populated it with notes, resources and reflections from my first placement. e.g. In my critical narrative By end-year, I will seek out By July I will: and in talking with my literature to help me to - Make contact with my mentor teacher mentor, I realized the understand the cohort of to negotiate the class I will complete my importance of knowing how students that I will engage with Tri 2 assignments with and find out as learners learn. I now know the most in my next placement. much about this group as possible. that I have a knowledge gap - I will go back through my readings to in developmental learning look specifically for learning theory and and how physiology might student engagement and add this to my impact learner engagement annotated bibliography. in the classroom. e.g. In preparing photos for By end-year I will do some During the mid-year break, I will complete some my critical narrative I began professional development in online training in Lynda.com on layout and to notice the work that creating classroom resources and accessibility. teachers do to enhance accessibility training. By end-year I will have built up and annotated learning environments and the resources in my professional experience the ways they use folder with samples of visual displays and visual/aural/kinesthentic learning resources created for learners. resources and activities to make them more inclusive for learners.