January 22, 2019
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Comments Off on It’s time to accept critique.
I have come to realise that reflection is a crucial part of becoming a teacher. Taking constructive criticism has always been difficult for me, and over the first semester, peering into second, I am beginning to understand why it is essential, and why I should encourage people to watch over my practice and assess it. […] Continue reading
January 21, 2019
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Comments Off on So much Drama
I believe the video about how to structure a drama lesson that we were informed to watch has been very beneficial to my understanding of how to take a drama lesson that is structured and stimulates learning. It provided a range of ideas and examples of activities that keep the children engaged. The video discussed […] Continue reading
January 20, 2019
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Comments Off on The Power of Dance.
I have had very minimal experiences with dance. Throughout school we never had classes devoted to dance specifically, it was more of an extra curricular that you signed up too, if you were interested in it. We obviously had the yearly Christmas cross country dancing, however this was never anyone’s favourite. Especially mine. I didn’t […] Continue reading
January 17, 2019
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Comments Off on Dance… the benefits beyond the body
“Dance??!!?” I exclaimed with great surprise once my fellow course mates revealed our next workshop. Unlike drama, PE and music, this was a subject area I had never delved into too much (in an educational and purposeful manner) before attending university. Like many others similar to myself who have just left secondary school, with the […] Continue reading
January 12, 2019
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Comments Off on Dance can be for Everyone!
A rush of anxiety flowed through me at a velocious pace when I heard our workshop was going to be on dance. I stereotypically pictured a dance workshop with mirrored walls and a choreographed routine that we would have to memorise and repeat. I recalled on memories from school where I was a hesitant child […] Continue reading
October 9, 2018
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Comments Off on Makey Makey🕹
On the 26th of September we had a lecture with Derek. No one knew this lecture would lead to us being Derek’s most successful ‘Makey Makey’ class throughout his time teaching this module. Derek firstly spoke to us about using technology in the classroom, its benefits and purposes for real learning. He then introduced the […] Continue reading
October 8, 2018
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Comments Off on Storytelling in Music🎼
Today we had a music workshop with Sharon. The workshop started with Sharon showing us how to introduce music to children through using your body and vocals for making sound. The advantage of this is that there is less mess and disruption than if you were to get musical instruments out in the classroom. This […] Continue reading
September 28, 2018
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Comments Off on RRS Discovery⚓️
Today we had a day off from university, so Jennifer, Beth and I decided to use the time to do an education trip to the RRS Discovery ship in Dundee. Our aim was to learn about the history, geography and science of the exhibition and reflect on the suitability of the exhibition for children and […] Continue reading
September 27, 2018
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Comments Off on Legacy of Empire: Racism and Misogyny
I found the issues explored this week were very closely aligned to my own passionate belief in equality and fairness. It is also very interesting to me personally as a mature student to note that that concepts around equality and fairness were regarded as in some way subversive or counter-cultural when I was growing up: […] Continue reading
September 24, 2018
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Comments Off on Resources Is Only The Tip of The Iceberg
Reflecting back on last Tuesday’s seminar, it is important to realise that it’s not only resources that can be unequal in society. When it comes to being a teacher, there are a number of inequalities that exist within society and they can be a variation of economic, social and political. For the seminar I was […] Continue reading
September 24, 2018
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Comments Off on My Skills and Abilities
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September 22, 2018
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Comments Off on Historical Storytelling📖
In my latest history input we spoke a bit about storytelling in a historical context. A video clip of this being done in a primary class was shown to us, it was quite inspiring. In the clip the teacher would put on a ‘special’ jacket when we was about to tell this history story. This […] Continue reading
September 22, 2018
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Comments Off on Reflection on IDL
The past few inputs we have had within this module have been about interdisciplinary learning, what it involves and how it is used in the classroom. “The curriculum should include space for learning beyond subject boundaries, so that children and young people can make connections between different areas of learning. Interdisciplinary studies, based upon groupings […] Continue reading
September 22, 2018
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Comments Off on Values Week 1
On Tuesday the 18th of September, all of us teaching students, social work and CLD students were in lecture theatre 4 together from 9am to 11am. This first part of the lecture was an introduction to the Values module and the second half was learning about the three bias’ we all have as humans. We […] Continue reading
September 21, 2018
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Comments Off on Learning shouldn’t be limited
As part of the Values module in the Education and Social work course, I participated in an activity to do with inequalities. This activity was very insightful into the lives of children which will be experiencing deprivation. We were split into four groups and we were given little information about the end outcome of this […] Continue reading
September 21, 2018
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Comments Off on 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 …
September 21, 2018
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Comments Off on It happened for a reason..
Teaching is a not a 9-3 job, it is 24-hour job. As a child, I have admired the way teachers go that extra mile to give you the best education you could possibly receive. From planning lessons to suit every child’s needs, staying late for 1:1 support or whether it be writing individual reports. A […] Continue reading
September 20, 2018
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Comments Off on Lesson Planning
Today in our Social Subjects input we spoke about lesson planning around current/recent news events which relate to social subjects. This way the children are learning about current issues. Jennifer and I paired up to create a lesson plan, for a primary 7 class, based on a new article we found online about the effect […] Continue reading
September 19, 2018
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Comments Off on Geographical Mapping🗺
In our lecture today we learnt about using maps with children and how it develops new skills and knowledge of their local and global surroundings. You should use maps with children as maps are a way of communicating information about a specific place, they give children the support to interact with an environment they can […] Continue reading
September 18, 2018
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Comments Off on Interdisciplinary Learning: A Reflection from my Childhood
Today we got an introductory lecture to our ‘Developing Effective Teaching and Learning‘ module. The module aims to explore and show us how subjects can take learning beyond it’s barriers and involve Interdisciplinary Learning (IDL) – making connections between different areas of the curriculum. It’s all about making appropriate links and showing these to the […] Continue reading
