Description/Focus:
From a choice of given scenarios students will write a response drawing from three developmental themes to explain the behaviour and justify their response to the scenario.
This is a rich task where the scenarios require participants to reflect upon their practicum or other experiences to select one that is familiar. Knowledge and understanding of research into how students learn that has been covered in the course is to be linked in a practical way to the scenario. The sociocultural underpinnings of learning that have been explored in the previous assessment will also inform the response. This will be explained and analysed in light of three aspects of child and adolescent development, and these will be then used to inform and justify a proposed response from the teacher.
Scenario
Choose one scenario below and develop your response that draws on at least three of the themes, or subthemes, in this course e.g.
Cognitive development
Moral development
Memory
Intelligence
Language acquisition
Social and emotional well-being
Physical development, sex difference and gender roles
Family, peers, media and schooling.
You may modify the scenario to explore an area of particular interest, such as ADHD, FASD, gender identity, for example.
I have selected Cognitive Development, Social/Emotional Well-Being and Famil Peers, Media and Schooling.
The scenario I have picked which is what it needs to be linked to
Scenario 1:
Kyla is eight years old. She is often late for school, she is sleepy in class and often doesn’t seem to comprehend what is being said. She never finishes any class activities. Other students think she is weird, and say she has irregular features.
Have also attached assessment rubric, in what the teacher is looking for.
