Edc3110 Unit 2 Assignment

Domain 2 Belief Statement
Professional Practice
As a teacher it is my responsibility to create a safe learning environment where my students feel confident and are equipped to achieve their learning goals (Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership [AITSL], 2014). I see it as an amazing challenge to make learning interesting and school a place my students want to be. When planning learning experiences for my students I need to consider the five dimensions of teaching and learning; sequencing teaching and learning, making judgements, feedback, curriculum intent and assessment (Education Queensland, 2011). The integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is vital for both engaging this ‘tech savvy’ generation as well as to make important connections to their home life (Baek, 2009). ICT is also a valuable way to expose
The Unit plan, Reporting the News (Artefact 6) was written as an assignment for EDC3100 ICT & Pedagogy. This assignment required the planning of a unit of work that includes sequential learning experiences, the incorporation of subject appropriate pedagogy and the ICT General Capability as well as a student task sheet and rubric for the summative assessment. For this assignment I created a 5 week English unit of work that teaches the students the purpose, features, structure, language and audience of a newspaper report (recount). The summative task requires students to research and choose a perspective on the question “Was Ned Kelly a hero or a villain?” Students then gather information to support their perspective and use word processing software to write their online newspaper