Word Count: 2500 words Weighting: 70%
Due Date: Week 13: 4/11/22
Purpose:
The purpose of this task is to create a viable proposal for a practitioner inquiry to be conducted while on final placement (Primary and Secondary Students) or while on your Infant and Toddler placement (Early Childhood Students)
Task Detail:
In this task PSTs will develop a proposal for a practitioner inquiry that is grounded in a sound theoretical basis and is feasible to complete within the limitations of the placement. The components that it must address are:
How the proposed inquiry will improve student learning and classroom practice. The personal and professional motivations for conducting the inquiry,
A brief review of the literature as it relates to the inquiry topic,
Ethical approaches to classroom inquiry,
The methodological approaches that will be used, How the proposed inquiry links to graduate standards, How the proposal has been shaped by peer feedback,
The task will be written in the format of a formal proposal using the above components as key headings.
Assessment Criteria:
Your work will be assessed according to the extent to which your inquiry proposal demonstrates:
Identification of personal and professional motivations (10 Marks)
Use of literature to contextualise inquiry proposal (15 Marks)
Understanding and application of the key principles described in codes of ethics and conduct for
the teaching profession (10 Marks)
Understanding of the role of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (10 Marks)
A broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve
student learning (15 Marks)
Construction of a cohesive, fluent, well expressed written response that uses correct
referencing according to APA (10 Marks)
Assessment Criteria Marking Sheet:
The proposal clearly articulates how the suggested inquiry has been developed from personal and professional interest.
The writing utilises the literature to demonstrate a critical understanding of the key issues that relate to the proposed inquiry, including methodological considerations.
Criteria Descriptors
Judgement and Justification and score for criteria feedback
Identification of personal and professional motivations
(10 marks)
Use of literature to contextualise inquiry proposal
(15 marks)
Assessment Criteria
In order to pass a course a student should make a reasonable attempt at every assessment task, including hurdle tasks, and achieve at least 50% for the course overall.
Topics Assessed
All topics covered during this course are subject to assessment.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is behaving honestly, responsibly and respectfully in our academic endeavours. We demonstrate integrity in our study by producing our own, original work and by properly acknowledging when we use the work of others to inform ours. Whether accidental or deliberate, using the work of others without acknowledgement constitutes a breach of academic integrity. Other forms of cheating include but are not
Course Description (Higher Education) EDMAS6027
Understanding and application of the key principles described in codes of ethics and conduct for the teaching profession (10 marks)
Demonstration of understanding of the role of the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
(10 marks)
Demonstration of broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning.
(15 marks) Construction of a cohesive, fluent, well expressed written response that uses correct referencing according to APA
(10 Marks)
