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How to work with infants and toddlers in an early childhood setting
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TCHR5009 THEORY TO PRACTICE: EDUCATION
AND CARE FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS
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Academic
Integrity
Assessment Task 1: Professional Philosophy and Critical Reflection
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Rationale
Students will reflect on their learning about theoretical perspectives and practices to develop their own
teaching philosophy for teaching infants and toddlers. Students will reflect on this philosophy and how it may
translate to practice.
Task Description
This report is comprised of two tasks and should be presented in ONE word document.
Part 1: Professional Philosophy (750 words)
Develop your professional philosophy statement for working with infants and toddlers in an early childhood
setting. Consider important aspects of infant and toddler learning, health and safety and development.
Consider unit topics such as relationships, quality, attachment, brain development, routines and the physical
and human environment. You can also include topics that are of interest to you.
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Part 2: Critical Reflection (750 words)
Critically reflect on your philosophy above, and identify 3 anticipated challenges you may face when putting
your philosophy into practice. How do you intend to overcome these challenges? Analyse according to the set
text, and the National Quality Standard and Early Years Learning Framework (V2.0).
Follow the steps to complete the task:
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Create a new Word Document and save it with your surname and initials and the assessment task’s
name. E.g: MillsA_assessment1_philosophy
Create a cover page with the following details:
o Student name and Student ID
o Unit code and name
o Unit Assessor and Tutor names
o Date submitted
Complete professional philosophy (750 words) and critical reflection (750 words)
Complete one reference list on word document
Check draft with draft checker on unit site
Once complete, submit final task via the Turnitin link in the Assessment and Submission section of the
unit site.
Referencing
APA7th referencing format is required with a minimum of 5 references. Sources should include relevant early
childhood policy and peer-reviewed literature. Students must use the unit textbook.
Resources
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Australian Government Department of Education. (2022) Belonging, being and becoming: The early
years learning framework for Australia (V2.0).
Australian Children’s Education & Care Quality Authority (n.d.). Developmental milestones and the
Early Years Learning Framework and the National Quality Standards.
Sims, M., & Hutchins, T. (2020). Program planning for infants and toddlers (3rd ed). Pademelon Press.
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accepted. You must label your submission with your surname and initials and the assessment task’s name.
Academic Integrity
At Southern Cross University academic integrity means behaving with the values of honesty, fairness,
trustworthiness, courage, responsibility, and respect in relation to academic work.
The Southern Cross University Academic Integrity Framework aims to develop a holistic, systematic, and
consistent approach to addressing academic integrity across the entire University. For more information see
the SCU Academic Integrity Framework
NOTE: Academic Integrity breaches include poor referencing, not identifying direct quotations correctly, close
paraphrasing, plagiarism, recycling, misrepresentation, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, fabricating
information.
GenAI May Not be Used
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as ChatGPT, may not be used for this Assessment Task.
You are required to demonstrate if you have developed the unit’s skills and knowledge without the support of
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GenAI. If you use GenAI tools in your assessment task, it may result in an academic integrity breach against you
as described in the Student Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct Rules, Section 3.
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Assessment 1: Report MARKING RUBRIC
Criteria
High Distinction
Distinction
Credit
Pass
Marginal Fail
Fail
Task 1: Professional
There is OUTSTANDING
There is VERY GOOD articulation There is GOOD articulation of There is BASIC articulation of
There is UNCLEAR articulation There is NO articulation of the
Philosophy (40%)
articulation of the philosophy of the philosophy statement for the philosophy statement for the philosophy statement for of the philosophy statement for philosophy statement for
Articulation of professional statement for working with
working with Infant and
working with Infant and
working with Infant and
working with Infants and
working with Infant and
philosophy statement for
Infant and Toddlers.
Toddlers. VERY GOOD inclusion Toddlers. GOOD inclusion of
Toddlers. BASIC inclusion of
Toddlers. Philosophy includes Toddlers. Philosophy does not
working with Infant and
OUTSTANDING inclusion of
of important aspects of Infant important aspects of Infant and important aspects of Infant and unclear or inappropriate aspects include aspects of Infant and
Toddler age children. Includes important aspects of Infant and and Toddler learning, health
Toddler learning, health and
Toddler learning, health and
of Infant and Toddler learning, Toddler learning, health and
important aspects of Infant Toddler learning, health and
and safety and development
safety and development that
safety and development that
health and safety and
safety and development that
and Toddler learning, health safety and development that
that are covered in the unit.
are covered in the unit.
are covered in the unit.
development that are covered are covered in the unit.
and safety and development. are covered in the unit.
in the unit.
Task 2: Critical reflection
OUTSTANDING critical reflection VERY GOOD critical reflection
GOOD critical reflection on
(40%)
on philosophy to learning &
on philosophy to learning &
philosophy to learning &
Critical reflection on personal teaching of Infants and
teaching of Infants and
teaching of Infants and
philosophy to learning &
Toddlers, the challenges and the Toddlers, the challenges and the Toddlers, the challenges and
teaching of Infants and
learning competencies needed learning competencies needed the learning competencies
Toddlers, the challenges and to achieve success as a teacher to achieve success as a teacher needed to achieve success as a
the learning competencies
of the infant and toddler age
of the infant and toddler age
teacher of the infant and
needed to achieve success as group.
group.
toddler age group.
a teacher of the infant and
toddler age group.
BASIC critical reflection on
philosophy to learning &
teaching of Infants and
Toddlers, the challenges and
the learning competencies
needed to achieve success as
a teacher of the infant and
toddler age group.
UNCLEAR critical reflection on
personal philosophy to
learning & teaching of Infants
and Toddlers, the challenges
and the learning
competencies needed to
achieve success as a teacher
of the infant and toddler age
group.
NO critical reflection on
personal philosophy to
learning & teaching of Infants
and Toddlers, the challenges
and the learning
competencies needed to
achieve success as a teacher
of the infant and toddler age
group.
OUTSTANDING use of materials. VERY GOOD use of materials.
Use of set text, the EYLF,
Philosophy and critical
Philosophy and critical
NQS, the unit’s materials and
reflection are consistently
reflection are regularly
scholarly readings (10%)
supported by relevant early
supported by relevant early
childhood policy, research and childhood policy, research and
literature.
literature.
Academic literacy
(10%)
GOOD use of materials.
Work is not referenced.
BASIC use of materials. Critical LIMITED use of materials.
Critical reflection is
References are not relevant or
reflection is supported with
consistently supported by
appropriate for the task.
literature.
relevant early childhood
policy, research and literature.
Some aspects of philosophy
are not supported by sources.
Displayed outstanding Academic Displayed comprehensive
Displayed solid Academic
Displayed satisfactory Academic Limited Academic Literacy.
Failed to display satisfactory
Literacy, including all of the
Academic Literacy, including all Literacy, including some or most Literacy, including some of the Mostly incorrect word count, Academic Literacy. Incorrect
following: Correct word count or most of the following:
of the following: Correct word following: Correct word count writing conventions and
word count, incorrect writing
reference list.
(+/- 10%), correct writing
Correct word count (+/- 10%), count (+/- 10%), correct writing (+/- 10%), correct writing
conventions, incorrectly
conventions, correctly
correct writing conventions,
conventions, correctly
conventions, correctly
formatted reference list. Task is
formatted reference list.
formatted reference list.
not readable.
correctly formatted reference formatted reference list.
list.
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Description of SCU Grades
High Distinction:
The student’s performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements, demonstrates
distinctive insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts, and shows
exceptional ability to synthesise, integrate and evaluate knowledge. The student’s performance could be
described as outstanding in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Distinction:
The student’s performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements, demonstrates
distinctive insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts, and shows a
well-developed ability to synthesise, integrate and evaluate knowledge. The student’s performance could be
described as distinguished in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Credit:
The student’s performance, in addition to satisfying all of the basic learning requirements specified,
demonstrates insight and ability in researching, analysing and applying relevant skills and concepts. The
student’s performance could be described as competent in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Pass:
The student’s performance satisfies all of the basic learning requirements specified and provides a sound basis
for proceeding to higher-level studies in the subject area. The student’s performance could be described as
satisfactory in relation to the learning requirements specified.
Fail:
The student’s performance fails to satisfy the learning requirements specified.
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please do refer to the book i have attached it should be seen that you have refer to the book as well
and please donot forget to add referance on it as well
Before doing assessment Make sure to go through the teacher description attached
Use modules, workshop and tutorial
This is a real life situation assignment, examples should be given all through with real life situations
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