Timeline of the next year.
Important dates and deadlines.
Every Friday: History Elective Journal due.
This may become more hard work when other assignments begin to pile in and need done around the one time.
Monday 3rd December: Values essay due.
This will be an extremely busy time of year as we will have to balance both this essay and our group assignment for Working together with others from out with our professions.
Monday 10th December: Working together group presentation.
This will be busy as we will have to allocate time to working together out with our University time in order to produce a respectable end products for the best mark. This will also be a challenge as it is occurring around about the same time as our Values essay is due. Our own individual poster for this module will also be due around this time.
Tuesday 29th January: Pre Placement visit day.
Lots of preparation and planning will need to be put into this day in order for it to run smoothly and for you to be as prepared as you possibly can be to make a good impression.
25th February – 8th March: Observation Weeks of Placement.
This will be extremely busy as there will be a lot of comprehending the notes you have taken in order to prepare and plan for the next stage of your placement – the teaching.
Mid April – Mid May: 4 weeks of professional teaching. This will be our busiest time in our first year as we will need to plan and prepare lessons most nights whilst maintaining a social life and getting to know the pupils in our class well enough to form good relationships, deliver good lessons and pass placement.
Complete the table below to identify and reflect on those factors and plan actions for each.
| Recognition/ Reflection | Action |
| What helps my learning? | How can I utilise this? |
| Example: “Discussing the topic with others” | · Set up a study group of like-minded peers
· Engage with the online community |
| Looking over resources after class. | · Organise my resources to make them easily accessible. |
| Turning my written notes into more visual aids eg. mind maps, posters. | · Makes notes more engaging and the use of colours makes notes more attractive – making them less boring to read. |
| Recognition/Reflection | Action | |
| What hinders my learning? | How can I address this factor? | |
| Example: “I’m easily distracted” | · Study in a place where distractions are minimal
· Read lecture notes before the lecture and then take notes lectures to keep me focused |
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| Only focusing on things that I find interesting rather than things I perhaps need to work on. | · Make a list of things that need improvement and work my way through – encouraging myself to do the things I may usually avoid. | |
| Spending too much time working collaboratively and getting used to relying on other people’s opinions. | · Find an ideal balance between working together to support learning and working independently to achieve an end goal. | |
| Getting too caught up in making an abundance of notes which might not all be relevant – hindering my learning more. | · Work on summarising my notes and condensing them down into smaller, more refined notes that are still detailed in helping my learning. | |
