Assessment name: Portfolio of planning cycle
Due Date: Friday 13 June 11:59pm
Weighting: 50%
Length: 2000 words
Task Description: This Portfolio is comprised of two tasks. You must submit your assessment as one
document.

Task 1: Anecdotal record and learning experience
Anecdotal record
View the video of pre-schoolers provided under the link “Video for Assessment 2” and
complete a detailed anecdotal record of the children’s learning (use the template
provided).

Learning experience plan
Based on the anecdotal record, write a plan on the planning template of a learning
experience to follow up on and enhance the pre-school children’s learning and
development.

Task 2: Reflective practice
This is a real-world project based on scenarios or ethical dilemmas that you are likely to
encounter in your professional work with preschoolers. It is important that you develop
skills and understanding of these issues, and reflect on how to address them, with
reference to your theoretical understanding, the National Quality Standards (NQS), the
Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and current research in the field.

Assessment name: Portfolio of planning cycle

Background for the scenario
You are the trained teacher in a room with 25 children aged 3-5 years. The other educators
in the room include one trained with a Diploma in Children’s Services, Michelle, and the
other educator, Zarla, is working towards Certificate III in Children’s Services. Your centre is
open for ten and a half hours per day from 7.30am until 6pm. You work full time on a
variety of eight-hour shifts. The centre is licensed for 79 children and is a for-profit early
learning centre.
Scenario
One of the children, Ishmael, in your room, who is 4.0 years old, sleeps for one hour per
day at your centre. The child arrives at the centre every morning at 7.45am and is picked up
at 5.45pm five days per week. Both parents work full time. The parents come to you, as the
teacher in the preschool room, and say they do not want Ishmael to sleep anymore at the
centre because she is not going to sleep at home until 11pm. They need their sleep, as they
are both busy working. How do you respond to the parents, and what do you do to ensure
that the parents and the children are achieving the best outcomes possible? Address the
unit material, the relevant principles of the EYLF V2.0 (AGDE, 2022) and the NQS (ACECQA,
2018)- especially Quality areas 1, 2 and 6.

Referencing and
formatting

• APA Referencing style is required to be used for this task
• Include one reference list for all responses on a new page at the end of task
• A minimum of 8 (eight) academic sources are to be included in the reference list
• At a minimum, your sources for this task will include the EYLF v2.0 (AGDE, 2022),
  NQS (ACECQA, 2018), the unit text, and a range of broader authoritative
  literature. Broader literature may include contemporary textbooks, peer reviewed
  articles, and other authoritative sources
• Assessment name: Portfolio of planning cycle

Formatting: Use APA 7 formatting throughout (this includes indented paragraphs,
double-lined spacing). No contents page is needed for this task.

Referencing Style Resource
About APA 7th – APA 7th Referencing Guide – Library guides at Southern Cross University
(scu.edu.au)

Details of the Unit text are available via the Orientation Module on the unit Blackboard site.
Support Resources Academic Integrity – SCU guidelines
Academic Integrity Module – mandatory module for first year students
Learning Zone – workshops, Quick Guides, student appointments
Submission You must include and complete in full the provided SCU coversheet as part of your
submission (this can be found in the Assessment task folder on the TCHR5010 unit
Blackboard site).

Submission of your assessment is via TURNITIN. The submission link can be found in the
Assessment Tasks and Submission Tab in the TCHR5010 Blackboard site.

Please note:

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Academic Integrity
At Southern Cross University academic integrity means behaving with the values of
honesty, fairness, trustworthiness, courage, responsibility and respect in relation to
academic work.
The Southern Cross University Academic Integrity Framework aims to develop a holistic,
systematic and consistent approach to addressing academic integrity across the entire
University. For more information see the SCU Academic Integrity Framework.
For this task: Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools, such as Grammarly Premium,
may be used ethically for this Assessment Task. However, you must write in your own
words and provide appropriate references (APA 7). Then, to further refine your
assessment you are allowed to use AI tools such as Grammarly and Copilot to check your
grammar, spelling and punctuation.
You must acknowledge any GenAI usage, identify what has been used and how, and
provide relevant evidence (e.g., screen shots) in an appendix.
If you use GenAI tools without acknowledgment it may result in an academic integrity
breach against you as described in the Student Academic and Non-Academic Misconduct
Rules, Section 3.
For example: You may use Grammarly Premium to provide feedback and suggestions on
your writing for academic tone, written expression, grammar, Australian English spelling,
and punctuation. You must not use GenAI to generate ideas for this assessment task. If
you choose to use these tools, you must include an appendix to demonstrate your work
prior to using GenAI.
NOTE: Academic Integrity breaches include poor referencing, not identifying direct
quotations correctly, close paraphrasing, plagiarism, recycling, misrepresentation,
collusion, cheating, contract cheating, fabricating information.
Grades and Feedback Assessments that have been submitted by the due date will receive an SCU grade. Grades
and feedback will be posted to the ‘Grades and Feedback’ section on the Blackboard unit
site. Please allow 10 days following submission for marks to be available.