Practice Context/Influences on practice/Summary



There are high expectations of tertiary educators in the 21st century. In this module you have explored dual professional roles, and examples from organizational strategies and priorities leading to your consideration of how professional role expectations, and the strategies and priorities of the organisation that you work for impact and influence what you do.

Your portfolio is the place to pull all this learning together.

Tell your story...
Now:

Tell your story by talking/writing about your work and what it means to you to be a dual professional as both a tertiary educator and expert practitioner in the workplace; then identify the institutional /organisational strategies and priorities of your employer and describe and discuss how you include those priorities within your work/practice.

Questions to help develop your story include:
 * What are the skills and knowledge required to be a teacher/educator in your current tertiary teaching workplace?
 * What are the new skills that you had to learn / are still learning about, to be a tertiary teacher/educator?
 * What do you have to do to maintain the specialised knowledge from your previous specialty practice?
 * How do you combine both roles?
 * What are the the institutional /organisational strategies and priorities of your employer?
 * How important are these priorities in your own work?
 * What do you do that supports or reflects these strategies and priorities?

As a guide if writing your story this should be two to four pages long


 * Remember to:
 * identify what you have learned in this unit and the relevance of this to your work
 * discuss how your new learning has impacted on your practice and influenced future actions you may take
 * support your story with educational literature and other forms of information
 * ensure your choice of supporting evidence is authentic, current, sufficient and relevant

Don't forget to support this with the evidence of your learning.

Collating Evidence
Some ideas for what you could use as evidence:


 * Excerpts from your learning journal or whatever format you were using to record and keep track of your learning
 * Excerpts from documentation on your organisations strategies and priorities that you have added notes or comments to
 * A bibliography or annotated bibliography of what you have read during your exploration of this module.
 * Notes of your reflections on conversations you were part of
 * Examples from your work (teaching practice)

Submit this section (Unit 4) of your portfolio to your course facilitator for feedback.

Questions?
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