ETP101: Teacher Learner Identity-Essay Writing Assignment

Internal Code: MAS795

Essay Writing Assignment:

Question: Written assignment bringing together individual beliefs about teaching and learning in relation to the purposes of schooling. In this final written assignment you will use your tutorial notes, readings, field work observations and other references to explore the purposes of education. You will create a written argument, supported by your reading and the work of key educational theorists, in regard to your position on the purposes of education.In addition you will: a) consider your position in relation to the purposes of education that are asserted in the Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians. b) reflect on your field work observations. Use your fieldwork observation template responses to help you make connections with AITSL Graduate Professional Standards. In particular you will explore and discuss using specific examples how your field work observations support / link / challenge with AITSL Graduate Professional Standard 1 Professional Knowledge. c) consider what you understand about, learning and learners; teaching and the teaching profession, and how these work alongside the purposes of schooling to articulate your understandings developed throughout the trimester. Drawing on this, we ask you to articulate your understandings developed throughout the trimester and critically reflect on the impact and/or implications for you as you become a teacher.