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Assessment Success Guide

ECEC101 T2-2025 Child Development (Birth-5)

Prepared by: Sonia Sin

Date: 23/07/2025

ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENTS

Assessment 2: Teaching Resource (30%)

Due Date: Week 10 [Friday, 1 August 2025, 11:59 PM AEST]

Word Count: 3 Teaching resources and 300 hundred words of description for each resource

Description: This assessment requires you to design THREE self-created, play-based teaching resources, each addressing a different developmental domain: physical development, language and communication development, social development, and emotional development. Your designs should consider the needs of children with diverse backgrounds and abilities.

For each resource, you must provide a clear description of how it is used, including the name of the resource, how it can be implemented, and how it links to the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) and the National Quality Standard (NQS). Your teaching resources should be engaging, interactive, and play-based, with a strong focus on promoting children’s development.

You will be assessed on your ability to design and develop age-appropriate, stimulating, and creative resources that meet the needs of diverse learners. Your work should demonstrate an ability to integrate theoretical perspectives and relevant research to support play-based learning in early childhood education. Additionally, each description should be professionally presented and follow the guidelines of APA 7th edition referencing.

✅ IMPORTANT:

The goal of this assessment is for you to demonstrate your ability to design teaching resources with intentionality, targeting a specific age group and developmental domain. You must be able to justify and clearly articulate why your chosen design supports this group of children, using supporting evidence drawn from academic literature and relevant frameworks.

In addition, your assessment must include at least SIX academic references, cited correctly in APA 7th edition.

CHECKLIST

✅ Have I read the rubric and task requirements carefully to ensure I understand what is expected?

✅ Have I provided 3 play-based teaching resources, each focused on a different developmental domain?
✅ Have I written a 300-word description for each resource that clearly explains its purpose and use?
✅ Have I linked each resource to the EYLF Principle(s), Practice(s) and/or Learning Outcome(s) and relevant NQS Quality Area(s) and/or Element(s)?
✅ Have I included relevant theory or research and correctly used APA 7th edition referencing?

ASSESSMENT UNPACKED

1. What is required in this assessment task?

This task requires you to:

·       Design THREE self-created, play-based teaching resources, each addressing ONE of the following domains

·       Physical development

·       Language and communication development

·       Social development

·       Emotional development

Please note that one resource per one domain (no repetition), followed by a 300-word description for each resource.

A self-created teaching resource is one that you design yourself. It should not be copied from online sources, existing programs, or pre-made lesson plans. Your resource must reflect your own pedagogical thinking and demonstrate how it is engaging, interactive, and play-based. It should be thoughtfully designed to support a specific developmental domain for a clearly identified age group of children.

2. What you need to cover in your 300 words written description (per resource):

·       Give your resource a clear and meaningful name that reflects its purpose and learning focus.

·       Describe the resource, including what it looks like, what it includes (materials, setup), and where it would be used (e.g., indoor, outdoor, or involving digital technology). Ensure your design is original and thoughtfully created.

·       Explain how the resource is utilised (i.e. teaching strategies) with the selected age group, highlighting how it is engaging and interactive in a play-based learning context.

·       Discuss how children in the selected age group will benefit from the resource in relation to the chosen developmental domain (e.g., physical, emotional, social, or language and communication development).

·       Throughout your written description, clearly articulate how your design and implementation link to relevant developmental and pedagogical theories, the National Quality Standard (NQS), the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF V2.0), and/or other relevant academic literature and research.

Note: This is a written task, photos or visual representations of your resource are NOT required. You are expected to communicate your ideas effectively through writing and remain within the specified word limit.

3. Submission format

You are required to submit a Word document (.doc or .docx) via Moodle before the due date.

Your Word Document Should Include the Following Sections:

1.     Assessment Cover Page

2.     Teaching Resource 1 (300 Words)

3.     Teaching Resource 2 (300 Words)

4.     Teaching Resource 3 (300 Words)

5.     Reference list in APA 7th, list all sources cited in-text

Please note that the word count for this assessment allows a 10% variation (+/-). Submissions falling outside this range may not be assessed.