Note the focus area and standard Note the type of Describe the artefact / document and Describe
Describe how the artefact /
descriptor/s the artefact /        artefact / document     indicate the possible impact or result on   document
document reflects                                          teaching and/ or student learning           meet the standard descriptors you
                                                                                                       have identified.
1.1   Physical, social and         This artefact is a      As always at the very start of my           APST 1.1
   intellectual                    student work            professional experience I make it           Through using this worksheet
   development and                 sample of a             paramount to get to know the students       at the start of my practicum it
   characteristics of
                                   worksheet I created     in my class and how they learn. In          gave me an insight into the
   students
                                   for the students in     order to achieve this, I created a          physical, social and
    Demonstrate
      knowledge and                my class as part of a   worksheet that also aligned with the        intellectual development and
      understanding of             PD Health unit of       Australian PDHPE curriculum. This           characteristics of my
      physical, social and         work Belonging        worksheet allowed for the students in       students. Throughout this
      intellectual                 which I taught in my    my class to get to know me on a             short task I learnt a lot about
      development and              final professional      personal level and for me to get to         each individual student giving
      characteristics of           experience              know my students. After discussion          me a head start on catering
      students and how
                                   practicum.              and questioning about the topic of          for the diverse needs in my
      these may affect
      learning.                                            belonging to a family I provided the      classroom for the rest of my
1.3   Students with                                        students with the worksheet that I had      practicum. This worksheet
   diverse linguistic,                                     filled out about me and my family life      lead into a class discussion
   cultural, religious and                                 outside of school. After this I asked for   about a boy in the class who
   socioeconomic                                           some students to volunteer to share         had a disability as well as
   backgrounds                                             some information about their families.      different types of families
    Demonstrate
                                                           Doing this then allowed for the             (single parent families, step
      knowledge of teaching
      strategies that are                                  students to feel comfortable and safe       mums and step dads etc.)
      responsive to the                                    to be able to complete their own            APST 1.3
      learning strengths and                               worksheet without being judged.             This worksheet encouraged
      needs of students from                               Throughout the allocated time I spent       discussion about some of the
      diverse linguistic,                                  time at each table with students            different cultural and religious
      cultural, religious and                              asking them questions and having            backgrounds of some of the
      socioeconomic
                                                           discussions that allowed for me to          students in the class. This
      backgrounds.
understand what happens at home           was useful for me to plan for
that could affect their schooling. This   future lessons in order to
allowed for students to open up about     ensure I could bring a part of
any personal information that I was not   each students culture into
yet aware of. Teachers must cater for     their learning. After this
the whole child and accommodate the       lesson I realised how many
needs of the individual learner in        students in the class were
which using this worksheet helped me      from an ATSI background.
to achieve (Marsh, 2010).                 This then prompted me to
                                          teach a HSIE unit of work on
                                          Indigenous dreamtime
                                          stories.