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Assignment 2 – Critical response

Title: Knowledge application

Value: 75 %

Week Due: Week 12, Friday by Midnight

Length: 2000 words

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.

Learning Outcomes: 4 & 5

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.

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.

Scenario 2:

Brynne was a bright, helpful student and received an excellent report in Year 7. In Year 8 she became rude and rebellious in class, but still received top marks.

Scenario 3:

Sando is from a non-English speaking background. Some teachers complain that he won’t speak in class or look at them, and he puts very little effort into tests and assignments. Other students like him, and he can be a clown in the school yard. He produced accurate scale drawings before making a model boat in woodwork.

Scenario 4:

The lesson before or after lunch in Middle School.

Scenario 5:

JoJo is enrolled in an early childhood learning centre each day but doesn’t always attend and there is always a tantrum when Mum leaves. She sometimes stays longer and other times she is quick to leave. JoJo has angry outbursts most days and seems happiest in the Director’s office.

Scenario 6:

During the double lesson on Friday afternoon, it is nothing but hair, makeup and gossip from the girls, and the boys seem to want to wreck everything, including each other – and I have to get through the curriculum.

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