EDC216-3 Early Childhood Education
EDC216-3 International Perspectives On The Early Childhood Education Assignment – UK
Assignment type : Presentation with questions and accompanying notes.
Weight : 100%
Word count : 2500
Assignment number and title : 1 of 1 A 10 minute oral presentation with notes, followed by 5 minutes of questions from tutors and peers. Create a curriculum model based on the approaches and the current curriculum framework in England with clear justifications for your choices. Select from the approaches discussed and critically analyze and reflect upon the elements that you consider to be best practice..
Learning outcomes :
1) Demonstrate the following knowledge and understanding
•the relationship between research and practice knowledge relating to early years care and education in international contexts
2) Demonstrate the following skills and abilities
•be able to critically reflect upon different international models of early childhood curricula and create
your own model
EDC216-3 Early Childhood Education

EDC216-3 Early Childhood Education

What am I required to do in this assignment?
This assessment enables you to select and synthesize key aspects of various international approaches to each childhood education and to create your own bespoke system that best reflects your principles and values regarding teaching and learning in the early years. You need to ensure that you clearly justify the reasons behind your choices in relation to theory, research and practice. You should anticipate potential questions and prepare answers. You must provide a hard copy in NOTES VIEW for marking tutors on the day of the presentation.

EDC216-3 Early Childhood Education

What do I need to do to pass? (Threshold Expectations from UIF)
Synthesize knowledge of international policy and practice in Early Childhood Education from a range of academic sources
Reflect on, create and justify your proposals for a new curriculum for Early Childhood education.

How do I produce high quality work that merits a good grade?
Attend all taught sessions. Do not leave the preparation of this assessment until after you have completed your dissertation. Ongoing work, reading and research are required to offer you the best opportunity to attain a high mark.
You will need to develop your own model; you can base the model of existing curriculum model theories but you MUST personalize the model and be clear and specific in your links to practice and theory.
The links to different international approaches must be clear on slides and in the notes with ANALYSIS of the justification for your choices.
The presentation must be visually engaging, fully referenced on slides and in notes, and provide a reference list at the end of the presentation.

The delivery of the presentation must be clear, rehearsed and professional.
One to one, on-line (Study Hub) or workshops.
Please use the guidance in the Study Hub on presentations: www.xxxx

Please ensure that you fully reference all your sources on the slides and on your references slide using the current referencing guidelines available here: www.xxxx

EDC216-3 Early Childhood Education

EDC216-3 Early Childhood Education

How does this assignment relate to what we are doing in scheduled sessions?
This assessment requires you to draw on different international models and approaches covered throughout the semester to CREATE your own curriculum.

How will my assignment be marked?
Your assignment will be marked according to the threshold expectations and the criteria on the following page. You can use them to evaluate your own work and consider your grade before you submit.

EDC216-3 Early Childhood Education