Description Assessment Title Written Assessment – Portfolio of teaching and learning materials- Minor Teaching Area Task Description This task requires you to apply core concepts of the unit to develop a Portfolio of teaching and learning materials based around a unit of work in your minor teaching area for a Junior Secondary class. The Portfolio will demonstrate your ability to apply subject knowledge and pedagogy skills in your minor teaching area.

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Assessment Title
Written Assessment – Portfolio of teaching and learning materials- Minor Teaching Area

Task Description

This task requires you to apply core concepts of the unit to develop a Portfolio of teaching and learning materials based around a unit of work in your minor teaching area for a Junior Secondary class. The Portfolio will demonstrate your ability to apply subject knowledge and pedagogy skills in your minor teaching area.

The unit requirements include both formative and summative assessment tasks. A series of 3 milestone formative tasks will be completed throughout the term and will be supported through the unit materials provided on the Moodle site for your minor teaching area. These formative tasks will be used to build the skills and knowledge required for you to complete the summative task and to provide opportunities for you to get feedback as you build and develop your ideas. The summative task requires you to develop a brief unit overview, three lesson plans from this unit of work and provide a justification of your planning choices in order to demonstrate your understanding of curriculum and pedagogy in your minor teaching area.

The formative tasks are to be posted up on the teaching area discussion forum in weeks 3, 6, and 9. The completed summative assessment task (the teaching portfolio) is to be submitted Friday 4th June (Week 12).

Part A – Milestone formative assessment tasks and the provision of feedback– 5 marks toward your grade for Task 1

The following formative tasks are to be uploaded to your teaching area forum in the weeks indicated:
· Forum entry – provide a description of a unit of work, including the unit title. year level, length of the unit, and the overarching question(s)/rationale/inquiry topic. Identify the curriculum – highlight the relevant parts of the achievement standard and select the content descriptors to be used in the unit. Identify and describe the type of summative assessment in the unit of work. Record these in the summative assessment template. (Friday March 26th – Week 3)
· Forum entry – provide a brief unit overview; this will comprise at least 6 weeks of lessons for the minor teaching area. Identify for each lesson: a description of the teaching strategies and learning experiences (including the lesson topic, learning goal(s), main teaching resources, and student activities). Record this information in the summative assessment template. (Friday 23rd April – Week 6)
· Forum entry – submit one Learning Experience Plan (LEP) that demonstrates specific strategies to develop literacy and/or numeracy knowledge/skills key to the unit. Record this information on the LEP lesson planning template. (Friday 14th May – Week 9)

The teaching area forum expert will provide feedback on your forum entries.

You are to provide targeted feedback to two peers on each of the formative tasks. Guidelines for this feedback will be provided on the Moodle site. The evidence of these forum entries will be recorded on a Formative Tasks table and submitted with your summative task.

Part B – Summative assessment tasks – 45 marks toward your grade for Task 1

Summative assessment tasks to be submitted as part of the Portfolio will reflect the key understandings explored in online Moodle materials and the work you have already done in the formative assessment tasks.

These tasks are as follows:

· Unit context statement that explains how your knowledge of the particular cohort of learners (from a detailed profile provided in the Course materials) and a particular school context influenced your design of the unit (400 words).
· A brief unit of work overview that demonstrates your understanding of planning processes, awareness of the need to have varied teaching strategies and resources across the unit.

· Three detailed lesson plans drawn from the unit of work that demonstrate your understanding of targeted and purposeful teaching strategies and resources suitable for the needs of Junior Secondary learners in this teaching area.

One of these lesson plans must demonstrate the development of literacy or numeracy skills specific to the unit of work and the teaching area.
The second lesson plan must demonstrate the use of formative assessment to assess students’ development of the knowledge and skills needed to demonstrate their learning in the final summative assessment task.
The third lesson plan must demonstrate understanding about differentiation for diverse learners through teaching strategies and the use of resources.

· A referenced justification that draws together and justifies the planning choices made in this collection of teaching artefacts (1600 words).
In this section you will provide a critical analysis of the planning process. You should also draw on the formative assessment tasks you have completed to address the following areas:

· Justify the choices you have made in your lesson planning about: teaching strategies, differentiation, literacy and numeracy strategies, formative assessment as preparation for summative assessment in your minor teaching area. Connections will be made to literature and research, as well as to the curriculum frameworks.

· Briefly outline how the formative assessment tasks and the feedback you received influenced your final task. Provide examples.

NOTE: The referenced justification must refer to theory/research.