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Task 1: Professional Philosophy

Develop and/or refine your professional philosophy statement for working with infants and toddlers in an early childhood setting.

Consider important aspects of infant and toddler learning, health and safety and development that we have been focusing on in the unit such as relationships, quality, attachment, brain development, routines and the physical and human environment.

Task 2: Critical Reflection

Critically reflect on your philosophy and identify anticipated challenges you may face when putting your philosophy in to practice. How do you intend to overcome these challenges? Analyse according to the set text, and the NQS and EYLF.

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Articulation of professional philosophy statement for working with Infant and Toddler age children. Includes important aspects of Infant and Toddler learning, health and safety.

OUTSTANDING inclusion of important aspects of Infant and Toddler learning, health and safety that are covered in the unit.

VERY GOOD inclusion of important aspects of Infant and Toddler learning, health and safety that are covered in the unit.

GOOD inclusion of important aspects of Infant and Toddler learning, health and safety that are covered in the unit.

BASIC inclusion of important aspects of Infant and Toddler learning, health and safety that are covered in the unit.

Philosophy includes limited aspects of Infant and Toddler learning, health and safety that are covered in the unit.

Critical reflection on personal philosophy to learning & teaching of Infants and Toddlers, the challenges and the learning competencies needed to achieve success as a teacher of the infant and toddler age group.

(10%)

Correct word count (+/- 10%), correct writing conventions, correctly formatted reference list.

Correct word count (+/- 10%), correct writing conventions, correctly formatted reference list.

Correct word count (+/- 10%), correct writing conventions, correctly formatted reference list.

Correct word count (+/- 10%), correct writing conventions, correctly formatted reference list.

Incorrect word count, incorrect writing conventions, incorrectly formatted reference list.