If you started the course before October 2013, you can use these Portfolio activities if you wish.
Learning Outcome
Your portfolio must demonstrate that you:
- Recognise, value and utilise students' cultural orientation, prior learning, learning preferences/styles, and numeracy and literacy needs by providing a diverse range of activities and opportunities to encourage deep learning.
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Develop a learner profile for a group of your learners.
- Prepare this in diagrammatic form and explain what it means on your blog.
- Do you think your learning preferences impact on your teaching style?
- Bring your views about learner preferences, learning styles inventories and your learner profile to the Moodle discussion forum.
- Prepare a written reflection about the key points made in the discussion.
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Knowing your students' literacy and numeracy skills
- In your blog describe which approaches you currently use to get a snapshot of your learners' literacy and numeracy skills.
- Share at least three things you have learned about your students' skills from using these approaches.
- Discuss the challenges with meeting the literacy and numeracy needs of your students.
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How can you develop as an expert learner?
- Reflect on all the characteristics that you already have as an expert learner.
- Discuss what is missing and why.
- How will you develop skills to strengthen these characteristics?
- Post this reflective discussion to your blog.
- Share a link to your post on the Moodle discussion forum, posing a stimulus question or statement to the class to interest them in your perspective.
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Portfolio activity for: Diversity
Describe an example in your context where you believe that access to learning may be compromised or inequitable.
- Reflect on factors of diversity associated with your students that impact on equitable access to the environment and their success.
- This may relate to the subject, resources, technologies, learning culture, socio-economics, ethnicity, assessments, learner motivation, engagement and abilities etc.
- Discuss what your learners might need to access the learning environment more fully, and what you can provide.
- What are the barriers?
- What support is needed?
- Add to your portfolio - your explorations, descriptions, discussions and reflections.
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Decide how you might use the Whanau Group method and four models:
- to support your Maori learners and facilitate their success; and
- for designing learning activities that acknowledge diversity.
- Add your discussion about this to your blog.
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Reflect on the material about Pasifika learners.
- What can you do to develop rapport with your Pasifika learners?
- How can you create a learning environment that is supportive for Pasifika learners' success?
- Add your discussion about this to your blog.
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Learning outcomes
Your portfolio must demonstrate that you:
- Adopt sound pedagogical practices that reflect a comprehensive understanding of adult learning approaches needed to engage learners.
- Critique a variety of feedback models/processes in order to provide clear, constructive feedback to support and advance student learning.
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Portfolio Activity
Demonstrate an understanding of different learning theories.
- Explore the reading material.
- On your blog discuss the learning theory associated with at least two examples of learning design in your course (including content, activities, interactions and assessments).
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Portfolio Activity
- Prepare a reflection about how you might use online, blended or open pedagogy.
- Discuss how e-portfolios could be used to set up your personal learning environment (PLE) and how this relates to online pedagogy?
- Post to your blog.
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Portfolio Activity
Andragogy
- Examine each of the four adult development theories outlined in Baumgartner.
- Which one best matches your philosophy of teaching?
- Discuss the implications for your teaching practice on your blog, and share on the Moodle discussion forum for this module.
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Portfolio Activity
| Andragogy
Describe and justify some pedagogical approaches that you could use in your teaching practice to facilitate adult learners.
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Portfolio Activity
Feedback Models
- In a blog posting describe one feedback model you have researched and explain its usefulness in you particular context.
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Portfolio Activity
Critical thinking
- Record your views about the concepts of critical thinking, on your blog.
- Why do you believe critical thinking is important for student learning?
- Share your views on the Moodle discussion forum.
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