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Professional Practice Goals

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1PP1 Professional Placement MA

Goals:

1. When  lesson planning make sure I am aware of the wide range of abilities in the class, and make sure I cater to the needs of every child.

– This is important to me when teaching as I feel that if I do this I am more likely to be able to gain more productive work from the children. In addition to this I can from past experience that the work you set children can affect there behavior. For example if  you give a child work that is to hard for them, they are likely to rebel. On the other end of the spectrum the child that finishes faster than everyone as the work is too easy for them; may distract others. Therefore I am using this as my goal as I also feel it will help with behavior management as well as meeting the needs of all the children.

2. Make sure I keep up to date with my reading.

-To me it is important to keep up to date with the reading as although I find it difficult it will benefit me when planning lessons and observing the class.

3. Build up a positive rapport with the class teacher and the children in my class.

-Building a relationship with the class is important to me as a student teacher as I believe this to be essential to not only the children’s learning; but my own as well.

 

I am aware that these may change during my weeks at the school, but for the moment these are the goals I would like to work on.

 

Links to SPR:

3.1.3  Employ a range of teaching strategies and resources to meet the needs and abilities of learners

1.4 Professional  Commitment  as I will be continuing to show my commitment through my reading.

3.1.2  Communicate effectively and interact productively with learners, individually and collectively; as I shall be interacting with the children and staff.

The most powerful message all children need to hear!

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Children do not need to hear  “yes your pretty, yes your thin, you are beautiful”!

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I understand by replying with this positive response as a teacher, parent or older sibling you believe such a positive response will generate a positive response from the child. These replies are fear based replies its the opposing view of the child who claims they are Ugly or fat.

We as teachers, parents or any other adults need to provide children with an abundance based response. Children need to be told to accept who they are. YOU are more that your prettiness, you are more than your ugliness, more than fatness.

YOU ARE MORE THAN THE FORM and this is the message we should be providing our children with, that they are more than the form. This is so important as if we link the child with a quality of a form and then that form does not manifest. E.g if we tell a child “your hair is so pretty,” and one day all there hair gets cut off or falls out; that Childs whole perception of themselves dies. Everything that child thought was important about themselves is ruined.

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The self is eternal it is more than the form.

A lot of adults are so worried and try to wrap there children in cotton wool claiming that they are pretty or thin; adults want to protect their children from the struggles of life and they believe that by saying these things to children they are protecting them from such struggles and making life easier for them, But there is no escaping life struggles, but we can teach children to embrace that within the struggle there is strength and that strength is true beauty.

 

*All views are my own and my opinions can be backed up by Dr S. Tsabary; her book can be found here hyperlink .

 

Reflective Commentary on the MA Primary Education Course

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This part of my eportfolio will allow me to reflection upon my professional development. Here is where I will reflect upon TDT’S as well as seeing the purpose and value of the educational process in University. I understand that reflection is extremely important for all professions, especially for teaching as the need to constantly improve and update your learning is so important, with the need to follow the GTC’s standards.

PROOF OF READING

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 SOCIAL MEDIA

During my time of the course I have learned that social media can be a good or a bad thing. Especially in within the education system, as children are becoming more and more engaged with technology. Prior to my time here I felt that social media was not for inside the classroom, and that online gaming belonged outside the classroom. However, upon reflection I have been able to develop my thoughts, whilst I still believe the use of facebook for children and teachers should be prohibited,( you can view this in my  The developing child TDT.docx ) I now believe that interactive sites and games does have some place in the classroom. This is after looking at our lectures Derek Robertsons blog about the theorist Vygosky “playing” minecraft which is a game that children like to play online. You can view this here http://http://hotmilkydrink.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/08/if-vygotsky-played-minecraft.html .