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Purpose of this Assessment

This assessment task is designed to assess your knowledge on the following units of competency:

CHCEDS034: Contribute to the planning and implementation of educational programs

CHCEDS035: Contribute to student education in all developmental domains

Student Instructions

This assessment task contains Short Answer Questions where you need to provide a response in your own words to demonstrate your knowledge and understanding of the unit. Carefully read through each question and reflect on your learning in this unit, including any additional research you have conducted.

Please note: Where your response does not sufficiently address all the question components, your submission will be returned to you for resubmission.

Assessment Conditions

This assessment is untimed

You may refer to your learning materials during this assessment

You must read and respond to all questions

Answers must be typed and submitted through My eCampus for assessing

You must complete the task independently

No marks or grades are allocated for this assessment task. The outcome of the task will be Satisfactory or Not Satisfactory

As you complete this assessment task, you are predominately demonstrating your written skills and knowledge to your trainer/assessor

Question 1

Access the Education Support Worker position description provided on the Acorn College website and outline the following:

a. Provide a minimum of six (6) duties and responsibilities concerning program planning and implementation.

b. Include three (3) other duties and responsibilities of an education support worker.

Question 2

Access the Confidentiality Policy and Procedure on the Acorn College website. Read the relevant sections that apply to the education support work role and provide the following information:

a. What is an education support worker’s responsibility regarding visible private information.

b. Provide three (3) other education support worker duties or responsibilities in this policy, as it relates to information about children.

Question 3

Access the Acorn College Continuous Improvement Policy attached with this assessment and outline the improvement process for reviewing and improving programs.

Question 4

For each of the four (4) developmental areas below, summarise at least four (4) points for each developmental area to explain developmental milestones and stages for each age group as identified in the table below.

Developmental area

Child aged 5-6 years

Child aged 6-8 years

Child aged 8-9 years

Adolescent

Physical

Cognitive

Emotional and Social

Communication and Language

Question 5

Access the Inclusion and Diversity Policy and Procedure from the Acorn College website. Identify five (5) responsibilities or duties of education support workers to support the inclusion of students in the following areas:

Gender equality

Cultural awareness

Family diversity

First Nations’ people

Additional needs

Gender equality

Cultural awareness

Family diversity

First Nations’ people

Additional needs

Question 6

Access the Australian Curriculum using this link: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/

Provide an outline of the role of each of the three (3) dimensions of the Australian Curriculum, in your own words:

Learning areas

General Capabilities

Cross-curriculum priorities

Question 7

Access the Australian Curriculum page “Implications for teaching, assessing and reporting” here: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/f-10-curriculum/implications-for-teaching-assessing-and-reporting/ and in your own words, summarise the teacher’s process for curriculum planning. (In case link does not work, screenshot of website located in appendix at the end of this document has been provided)

Question 8

List at least two (2) strategies, materials and resources each that are used to support the stages of development in each of the following domains:

Physical

Cognitive and language

Social and emotional

Domain

Strategies

Materials/Resources

Physical

Cognitive and language

Social and emotional

Question 9

Using your Learner Guide – Learning Activity: Influences on Growth and Development, explain in your own words the impact of culture and ethnicity and languages spoken at home on student development.

Culture and ethnicity

Languages spoken at home

Question 10

Access the Australian Curriculum website https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ to explain in at least five (5) points how disability may impact students' learning and development.

Question 11

For each Australian Curriculum Key Learning Area listed below, list two (2) developmental areas that are related and why. You can use the developmental areas identified earlier.

E.g. For Maths, students would need strong cognitive skills because this learning area depends on logical sequencing and problem-solving.

Key Learning Area

Developmental areas

Why this is linked

English

The Arts

Health and Physical Education

Languages

Question 12

Carefully read the Lesson Plan provided below and answer the questions below the template.

Now that you have read the lesson plan, answer the following questions.

a. What specific information do you need to know from this plan

b. Is there anything missing from this plan that can help you to implement the lesson plan? Any questions you might ask the teacher for clarification?

c. What specifically do you need to do as a support worker to support with the implementation of this program

Question 13

For each of the classroom support techniques listed below, provide an example of how you would use this during a classroom lesson.

a. Demonstrating skills

b. Individual instruction

c. Modifying environment or materials

d. Monitoring student progress

e. Observing and listening to students' work

f. Small group instruction

Question 14

Explain how observations should occur, the tool to be used to record observations and what an observation must include.

Question 15

Provide two (2) examples of types of classroom routines in relation to the following

a. Start and finish of sessions

b. Communication protocols between students and between students and teacher

Question 16

List five (5) ways in which an education support worker can promote cooperation and good relationships with teachers and students.

Question 17

Access the Acorn College Case Conferencing Policy included with this assessment and outline the key aspects of the points below:

a. What the process includes?

b. Terminology used

c. Who may be involved?

Submission Instructions

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