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Task 1 needs to be completed NOW. It does not require any reading. You need to
complete it and then put it aside, ready to be included with Task 3 when you send
it in. Details of what Task 1 involves are set out later in this section on
Assessment.
Due dates for your assignments have to be juggled around the following
constraints:
- The first week of semester for internal students begins on 28 February.
- The first assessment task has to be done by all students at the same time. It is
like an exam in this respect.
- Three weeks is the maximum time I can allow internal students to do the
necessary reading to be able to complete the first assessment task. This is not
very long but internal students have the advantage of classes. External students
have the advantage of extra time.
- The mid-semester break occurs very early in 2005 after only four weeks of
classes (three if teaching does not properly begin in the first week).
- The first assessment task needs to be done before the mid-semester break,
when residential schools for external students take away from the time
available to work on assignments.
- The second assessment task is the major task in this unit. It needs more time to
complete because there is more reading involved.
- The due date for the second assignment needs to be early enough to allow time
for completion of the third assignment.
- Prac begins on 30 May. It is extremely difficult for students to work on
assignments during prac. Therefore the due date for the last assignment needs
to be before prac. It also needs to be at least two weeks before the beginning of
the examination period (20 June) to allow for the two-week extension policy
which applies to external students.
In view of the above constraints, here is my advice:
If you are an external student, start working on the first assignment immediately.
EDLT 485 An Introduction to Learning and Teaching I Unit Handbook
You should finish it well before the due date. Although you cannot submit it and
have it marked until the due date, you will still get your results well before the
second assignment is due. The work you do for the first assignment is directly
relevant to the following assignments it underpins everything you will learn in
your Learning and Teaching units. Mark your responses in the first assignment in
your unit outline, ready to be copied into the online version on 18 March. As soon
as you have finished the first assignment, start work on the second one. If you are
attending a residential school for another unit in April, make sure you remember
this when drawing up your personal assignment timetable for the semester. It will
be possible to get a two-week extension on this assignment, and also on the
following assignment, but you should treat the specified due date as the real due
date because requests for extensions beyond the extended date will be subject to
policy as specified in this unit outline. Just as many things go wrong in the extra
two weeks as they do before the due date. The extra time allowed is to cut down
on the time which has to be spent processing requests for extensions from a large
number of students. It is not a mechanism for transferring these requests forward
by two weeks!
If you are an internal student doing a prac in first semester, you need to be sure
you have completed your assignments before prac. After prac there is very little
time before I have to submit my results usually at the end of June. The twoweek
extension policy applies to external students only. You need to remember
that the mid-semester break is only a break from classes, not from working!
If you are an internal student and you are not doing a prac in first semester, you
have three teaching weeks after the third assignment is due. There will be no
classes in EDLT485 during these weeks. However, on equity grounds I cannot
allow you to use these weeks to complete your assignment (though you will
probably have assignments due in other units during these three weeks). The same
comments therefore apply to you as to internal students doing a prac (read the
paragraph above).
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