Akoranga - Course MLED8201 Contemporary Teaching
Ngā Putanga Ako o te Akoranga - Course Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Critically analyse and evaluate emerging challenges and opportunities in contemporary teaching practice.
2. Critically analyse and evaluate evidence regarding contemporary pedagogies and implications in practice including wider social, political, bicultural and multicultural learning contexts.
3. Use contemporary evidence to devise culturally responsive and collaborative learning focused solutions to improve teaching and learning practice
Kawatau Ākonga - Learner Story
As an MCE Candidate, I need to be able to explain culturally responsive practice informs challenges and opportunities in contemporary pedagogies and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Kawatau Ākonga - Learner Story
As an MCE Candidate I need to be able to explain culturally responsive practice informs challenges and opportunities in contemporary pedagogies and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ngā Putanga Ako - Sprint Learning Outcomes
Once I have completed this chunk of learning, I will be able to:
Critically reflect on and evaluate how Culturally Responsive Practice informs education in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Critically evaluate the influences of Culturally Responsive Practice in an increasingly culturally diverse world
Critically evaluate how effective Culturally Responsive Practice should/could inform learning to better meet the needs of diverse learners in contemporary education
Steps
Group ideas and critically analyse and evaluate these
Create topic sentences that captures the essence of the ideas
Collate my ideas into a coherent and logical argument
Use references to support my thinking
Produce a coherent and cohesive assessment
Ngā putanga ka hua - Outcomes I will produce
MindMap/Matrix
Argument
Draft
Reference List
Assessment for submission
Culturally Responsive Practice
The focus for Assessment Two is the importance of having robust culturally responsive and culturally sustaining practice when addressing challenges and opportunities in contemporary pedagogies and practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.
8201.2 Culturally Responsive Practice Critically reflect on and evaluate how culturally responsive / sustaining practice informs education and practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand, and consider the influences of an increasingly culturally diverse world on the changing landscape of education and practice.
Assessments Guidelines
For this assessment, you will produce a coherent and articulate submission in the form of a written essay, video essay, foliocast or other approved output 10-12 minutes in duration or 2500-3500 words.
Your submission will:-
present a coherent argument
be critically evaluative
include critical reflection
integrate evidence which includes a range drawn from different sources (such as collaborative discussion, literature, peer-reviewed journals, government documents and practice-based evidence).
Technical requirements:
assessment files will be named (Firstname, Last name, assessment code, assessment item (e.g. Lynley Schofield 8202.1 Critical Evaluation)
all text/written submissions need to be submitted to Turnitin
font -12-point, black e.g. Arial, Calibri or Open Sans.
include suitably cited in text references
include a Reference List in a suitable format (e.g. APA)
video submissions should be in a recognised video format, for example, MP4
Assessment Criteria
Critically evaluate how Culturally Responsive Practice informs education in New Zealand.
Critically evaluate the influence of Culturally Responsive Practice in an increasingly culturally diverse world.
Critically evaluate contemporary education approaches that support the enactment of culturally responsive practice.
Scaffold/Guide for Culturally Responsive Practice Assessment 8201.2
The following is a guide and has key prompts that you can use to help you unpack what to do to plan and write your assessment to meet the criteria.
To start :-
Do a mind map on each of the criteria
1. Culturally Responsive Practice In NZ,
2. Cultural Diversity,
3. Contemporary Education Approaches that address the needs of learners)
And work out what the main points are for each of these
And how these points link to the literature
How these link to your own context/national/global perspectives
From this build your paragraphs:
Ideally if the assessment is between 2500-3500 you want to leave about 300-400 for the intro and 300-400 for the conclusion.
This leaves you about 800-900 words for each topic. Which is about 3 or so paragraphs.
See structure below:-
It is important to not copy the writing from what you are reading but put this in your own words- what do you think about it, what do you understand from what the literature is saying about it.
This is where you can have more than one reference because you are summing up what 2 or 3 or 4 people are saying about the topic.
This is how you build your argument- really the argument is your opinion and understanding of what you have read and how this fits in your context.
Assignment 8201.2
Critically reflect on and evaluate how culturally responsive and sustaining practice informs education and practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Consider the different influences of an increasingly culturally diverse world on the changing landscape of education and practice.
Assessment Structure
Introduction
300-400 words
Don’t write your introduction or conclusion until you have written the rest of it
Introduce culturally responsive practice, culturally sustaining practice-why it is important and introduce to the marker/reader what you are going to talk about in the rest of the assessment
Critically evaluate how culturally responsive practice informs education in New Zealand.
700-900 words
What do I know about the Treaty of Waitangi? How does this founding document underpin the NZ school curriculum?
How is this implemented into our practice?
How do the following documents: Tātaiako, Tapasa, and Ka Hikitia inform education in NZ and how are they used or implemented in your practice/context?
What does learning look like if it is culturally responsive?
What do I know about the Standards for the teaching profession?
What is different about schools in Aotearoa and how does the bicultural history impact what educators do?
What are the expectations: High teaching standard/effective teaching practices- and how are these met?
How should/do schools honour Te Reo Māori, tikanga Māori and bicultural heritage for every student and every school in New Zealand?
What literature supports the points you are making?
Critically evaluate the influence of culturally responsive practice in an increasingly culturally diverse world.
700-900 words
How is education impacted by the increase of a more culturally diverse world?
How do the OECD or other organisations suggest we address this issue?
What impact does increased travel/immigration have on classroom practice?
How does this affect NZ schools/teaching/expectations and understandings from parents/schools/etc?
Cultural diversity is one of 8 principles in NZC- what does this mean- how do schools ensure this is done effectively? How do schools ensure this is not tokenistic?
What literature supports the points you are making?
Critically evaluate contemporary education approaches that support the enactment of culturally responsive practice.
700-900 words
How do different contemporary approaches actually help learners?
What is it about them specifically that work?
How does pedagogy need to change to meet the needs of learners who are culturally diverse?
How do they enable learners to improve/ grow when using these approaches eg personalised learning- what is it about this that supports learners to do better- e.g collaboration?
What literature supports the points you are making?
Conclusion
300-400 words
Sum up what you have written/talked about above and the implications of those topics or key points for practice or implementation/ difference you think it might add.
Reference List
Add all of the references you have used in the assessment
Do not include ones you haven’t actually used in the body/rest of the assessment
Use APA Referencing format
Put the references in alphabetical order
Springboard Resources
This document is very useful to help you to organise and know how to reference
There is also further APA support material in the portal
Culturally Responsive Sustaining Education Framework http://www.nysed.gov/common/nysed/files/programs/crs/culturally-responsive-sustaining-education-framework.pdf Link to document [http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001271/127160m.pdf#page=10]
Critical Thinking Model
Critical Questions A Linear Model
‘Critical Thinking’, Learning Development, Plymouth University (2010)
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