(SECTION 1)

Pictured above is my self-assessment audit from my professional practice in first year.

I set myself 3 goals:

Gain experience in planning for a number of different subjects which interest and excite the pupils in my class to ensuring they feel valued and supported within my classroom.

Develop classroom organisation and behaviour management skills (in line with the schools ‘relationships policy’)

Confidently use a number of formative assessment techniques

Looking back, I think I met these goals successfully and by the end of the 6-week placement I felt confident in all three of these areas.

This year, however, the setting I have chosen to attend while similar in its aim – to teach children and young people – it will impose a different challenge in the way of a language barrier.

Within this placement, I hope to gain a deeper knowledge of the Italian language – building on the Italian Stage 1 course I have been attending this year. I will receive weekly Italian language and cooking lessons while in Italy so I hope that throughout my 6 weeks at Global Find, I will feel comfortable to use my knowledge to build a relationship with the students. While I teach them english, the can feel a sense of empowerment by helping me to learn Italian.

Also, I am aware that adults can also attend lessons at the school so I hope to gain experience in taking adults classes and how to communicate professionally with them in this environment.

Lastly, I hope to further improve upon my classroom organisation and behavioural management skills. I feel that the language barrier may affect this greatly but I hope to learn strategies to work around this. I think in the future I will have a greater understanding and empathy for ESL students and the difficulties they face when moved to a English speaking lesson. I hope to be able to use my experience and the strategies I hope to learn throughout my career as a registered teacher.