Standards for Provisional Registration- Summary

Professional Values and Personal Commitment:

This area of the standards demonstrate that each learner is influenced by the experiences that they have.

Social Justice- Education needs to be locally and globally embraces with inclusion and transparency to everyone. As an educator, every learner should be engaged and shown respect and the diversity of society.

Integrity- Openness and honesty need to be shown to learners as well as positive attitudes being shown so that the children are more likely to improve and become effective contributors to society.

Trust and Respect- As a teacher it is important to influence individuals and provide them with a well rounded and holistic education. It is also important for the children to feel safe in the education environment with the best intentions of motivating and inspiring ambition in each individual learner.

Professional Commitment- In order to work in an education environment commitment to your role is important as results will only happen through determination, enthusiasm and being adaptable for all scenarios and situations.

 

Professional Knowledge and Understanding:

Curriculum- Designing new concepts for children and interlinking different subjects allows for an all-rounded education. By providing support, challenges and stimuli for children to thrive, there will be more chance of the children succeeding and feeling positive about there education. However, if there are areas where some learners struggle, it is important for these to be identified and focussed on to improve their understanding. By using a range of techniques all areas of the children’s brains will be stimulated and as a result they will be more likely to absorb the information.

Education Systems and Professional Responsibilities- As a teacher having an awareness for international systems and the legal and professional factors to teaching is important as it allows for you to be full informed about the job and career. Understanding your pastoral responsibilities is really important as you will then be more equipped to provide your pupils with the necessary support and advice to the fullest extend of your knowledge. As well as knowing the children, it is important to know your colleagues as you all are working together for the same reasons and end points, and by collaborating everyone can provide advice to improve the overall responsibility and outcome to each child.

Pedagogical Theories- When teaching a class it is important to know all of the learners individually, their strengths and the areas which they need more support on, this is important to take into account as your lesson plans may need to be tailored more appropriately for the individual class.

Professional Skills and Abilities:

Teaching and Learning- A lesson plan needs to meet all of the needs of the learners and provide appropriate literacy models to develop the learner; reading, writing, listening and talking skills, to help their development. It is also important to promote healthy relationships so that the children have support from their peers and families as will as being able to provide this support to others. Developing tasks of an appropriate level to encourage and stimulate debate is important to develop opinions and understanding of different views, it also helps with communication and allows for concise endings to topics. Having commitment and confidence in yourself as a teacher is important as if you do not believe in yourself why would other people want to? You have to do know that you can do it, so by showing confidence in yourself you are setting a good example to your class.

Classroom Organisation and Management- Effectively displaying information is important as it means that the learners will be more engaged in what they are doing and learning about in their lessons. Using outdoor education is also very important to develop children’s senses and fine-motor skills and learn about positive behaviour. Showing care and commitment to the individuals is important for allowing the children to trust you and allows for the wellbeing indicators to be taken into account.

Pupil Assessment- Using formative and summative assessment, the children have a more rounded test as everybody learns in a different way and has different strengths which need to be represented. It is also important for the learners to take part in peer and self assessments in order to understand where they think they have gone wrong or where they have excelled as well as understanding how other children learn and demonstrate their understandings. It is important to record the results of assessments to ensure that each learner is improving or to see where more help is needed.

Professional Reflection and Communication- Reading and analysing literature is important in reflecting on your professional development and to build knowledge to challenge and inform your practice. Self-evaluations are important in order to reflect and engage with what you have taken part in and provided so that you can adopt and enquiring approach to improve your practice.

A case for the Learning and Teaching of Language- My Experiences

My initial experiences of language was from the beginning of my life- my family read stories to me at night time and I became familiar with many different authors and characters in books. These ranged from ‘The Gruffalo’ to ‘Peter Rabbit’ and ‘Paddington Bear’. As I grew older I began to find reading harder but loved listening to stories so I listened to audiobooks at night time; allowing for my language to develop and for my to improve my understanding of speech, talking, listening and develop my imagination.

 

In school I learnt how to write through a booklet containing each letter in the alphabet in large text. You would then trace over the letter and each line it became smaller in order to improve our dexterity. Other ways of improving my writing and sentence structure was through telling my teacher what I wanted to write and she would originally write it in a yellow felt-tip.  Then I would go over it myself afterwards- this was useful to learn how letters linked together in different orders depending on the words.

As I progressed in school, reading comprehension became more important. At the school I went to we used SRA, where you would read a story and answer the questions, each time you would be closer to increasing the levels and progressing.

 

Throughout my learning journey, these were a few ways in which i improved my listening, talking, reading and writing skills.

Racism and Patriarchy

As we look further into racism,  the previous actions that people took against others of a different race are still present in today’s society.

We looked at how Stephen Lawrence’s case in 1993 was not fully investigated due to the racist views of the police officers. Stephen Lawrence was a black teenager who was attacked by a gang of white youths, the police did not convict anyone as it was assumed that it was a ‘street brawl’, to which his mum had compared to “white masters during slavery” showing that the times have not changed.

There is no reason why in the modern world that we live in today there should be differences like this one. If a young person dies, there should not be a difference in how the investigation is handled, finding the person who murdered them should be the main priority. Not their skin colour. Not where they grew up. Not one difference should hinder the fight for justice.

Although the Lawrence cause was 20 years ago, and slavery was a century ago. These problems have still not changed. In America, there are so many cases of police officers targeting African Americans, for example; Charlotte USA, Scott was shot by the police who claimed he held a gun, however, video evidence showed that he was only reading a book waiting for his child to finish school.

Many campaigns have started in order to support black people being discriminated against, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, Protests in the sporting world where player have knelt during the national anthem and Documentaries to show the extent of the issue.

 

Racism is not the only issue that hinders equality within our society. Discrimination such as; Islamaphobia and Patriarchy are still present today. Through political leaders supporting patriarchy where men are seen as ruling over all women in every aspect of life. It is clear that views will not change even with opposition leaders such as Angela Merkle, who are trying to show that woman are not inferior to men and are capable of running countries for example.

Patriarchy affects many people; women who feel uncomfortable in the workplace, partners struggle to support the victims. Yet no change is made. There is inequality pay gaps, a lack of affordable childcare and many other things that hinder the equality acts of 1970, from being carried out.

 

Discrimination needs to stop. Racism needs to stop. Patriarchy needs to stop. And Equality needs to start.

Values Lecture 1

This week I attended a Values lecture where we learnt about how different forms of bias are present all around us; from news channels to how people unwittingly make judgments based on first impressions.

I found this lecture very interesting. We watched a video of Panti, an Irish drag queen who faced legal proceedings because she named people as homophobic for being against same-sex marriage. The treatment of bias against Panti and many other people in similar positions showed how divided the modern world is.

Later on, there was a workshop where our lecturer demonstrated bias in our class by providing some groups with more materials than others and providing the same 2 groups with more help and support than others. It was interesting to see that the groups that had all of the resources, materials and help were oblivious to the lack of support to the others. However, the groups that had less help and support were very aware of the lack of resources and support. On reflection, the learning outcome from this workshop is to ensure as a teacher, you do not apply unconscious bias to your teaching practice and that each child is given the same amount of support and encouragement.

Because I have always considered myself to be a balanced and open minded person I initially questioned  myself and the purpose of these lectures. I have now changed my perspective on the magnitude of the issue.

My Inspiration to be a Teacher

Throughout my journey at school, I realised that all teachers inspire children in different ways. Teachers make a difference to so many children’s lives over their time in school by encouraging creativity and spontaneity. Each teacher has individual methods and techniques to encourage children to learn, improve and be the best they can be. As I became aware of the wide variety of teaching techniques used, my interest in teaching developed. I recognised during my school journey that everyday is different and everyday brings new challenges. You are able to influence so many children’s lives from the beginning of their journey and help them to become well-rounded people who may change the world one day. At this point I seriously began to consider teaching as a career.

During my work experience, I was placed in a primary 5 class where it was a really interesting atmosphere as there was a broad range of strengths and abilities. I enjoyed observing how the children interacted with each other and helped each other to improve together. Seeing the commitment that each child had in completing tasks was really rewarding especially when they recognised what they had achieved. One teacher I shadowed created new ways to teach lessons to help children understand the subject, showing patience. This experience illustrated that each child has different strengths and learning needs to be considered and as a teacher, it is essential to adapt appropriately. This was further encouragement for me to pursue education, by watching how the children develop so rapidly and the rewards that they receive for doing so.

I have always had a passion for wanting to work with people. I undertook some research into the range of careers available. I also thought carefully about my skills and individual qualities and the type of careers I would be best suited to. The outcome was that I decided primary teaching would be a good fit for the type of person I am; I enjoy challenges and I believe that I have the ability to help children understand new work, help them to reach their goals and ambitions. I believe education is not just about teaching the curriculum but about giving children the opportunity to develop life skills, to be kind, considerate and to respect others.

I believe that as a primary teacher, you have the ability to be a part of many children’s lives, they may save someones life one day, or become the prime minister, work in the military, become an actor or an artist. By being a teacher, you never know what a child may end up doing when they are 30 years old, but at the ages of 5-11, you have the ability to help them become the type of person they want to be with effective guidance and nurturing through a holistic approach to education. This is a fantastic opportunity.

 

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