January 20, 2017
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After receiving my grades and feedback for my first two modules at university, I am able to reflect on my work for last semester and pick out areas for improvement. Overall, I enjoyed the Values and Working Together modules and found that they both made me question the way in which I conduct myself as […] Continue reading
January 20, 2017
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As semester 2 is well underway it is useful for me to reflect back to semester 1 to analyse and evaluate how I have developed in my personal learning as well as the professional development that has been made. Over the course of semester 1 I studied two core modules – Values (self, society and … Continue reading Semester 1 Reflection. → Continue reading
January 20, 2017
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Comments Off on Reflection TDT
After starting the University of Dundee in September I was anxious but excited to find out what our first semester would entail. Having two modules for Education as well as an elective to study for proved very challenging as the semester progressed. I soon realised that university was a much bigger jump from high school […] Continue reading
January 20, 2017
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Comments Off on Reflection, what is it good for?
In today’s lecture, the focus was largely on the importance of reflecting as a teacher, both in and out of school. The General Teaching Council (Scotland) have the Standards for Provisional Registration, which outline that engaging in reflection is key to becoming a striving and beneficial teacher. 3.4.2 Engage in reflective practice to develop and advance career-long […] Continue reading
January 19, 2017
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Comments Off on Learning to Enjoy the Process
Linda Lapere asked: “When are you more likely to show a fixed mindset? What are your beliefs regarding ability? What messages did your practice on your last placement communicate? What changes, if any, will need to be made for the next one?” When are you more likely to show a fixed mindset? When I become […] Continue reading
January 18, 2017
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Comments Off on Health and Wellbeing
As part of our most recent health and wellbeing input we were advised to watch two videos about the importance of early years, pre birth-three. One of the videos was by Doctor Suzanne Zeedyk and the other was by John Carnochan OBE. Both videos focussed on the fact that as humans, we are brought into […] Continue reading
January 17, 2017
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Comments Off on Importance of the first 3 years of child’s life.
After watching videos from John Carnochan and Suzanne Zeedyk explaining the importance of children’s development and more specifically the importance of the first 3-4 years of a child’s life. One of the main reasons for this is due to the fact, children are born earlier than most other species and animals. This is because if […] Continue reading
January 15, 2017
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Comments Off on Developing Mathematical Concepts and Language Through the Cockatoos’ by Quentin Blake.
The Cockatoos’ is a story about Professor Dupont, a man so wrapped up in routines that he overlooks how some of his quirks may be perceived as annoying! This book offers several opportunities to explore mathematical language with early years’ pupils. As Professor Dupont searches for his ‘Feathered Friends’ classes can explore positional […] Continue reading
January 15, 2017
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Comments Off on Dance… love it or hate it?
Friday mornings dance workshop gave me a whole new perspective on the subject I once did anything to avoid. I have no previous experience of dance and always thought it was not for me. This, combined with the fear of making a fool of myself left me ‘hating it’ throughout my childhood. However, after Friday’s workshop […] Continue reading
January 14, 2017
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Comments Off on Perspectives on Racism
I have always been interested in the topics of Racism as I struggle to believe the cruelty that once went on in the 18th, early 19th century, especially in America. I studied the African Americans stories of segregation and discrimination for my higher history exam, so I knew quite a bit about the racism that […] Continue reading
January 10, 2017
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Comments Off on Science: How does it work?
Today’s Science input showed me that as an adult we don’t tend to question why things are the way they are. This is something which has been explored within the International Baccalaureate module which encourages teachers to engage children’s natural curiosity and facilitate inquiries. Yet, this isn’t often something adults do for themselves! Liz asked […] Continue reading
January 7, 2017
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Comments Off on Active Learning & Cooperative Working
“[Curriculum for Excellence] is designed to provide the breadth and depth of education to develop flexible and adaptable young people with the knowledge and skills they will need to thrive now and in the future. It aims to support young people in achieving and attaining the best they possibly can.” (Education Scotland, No Date) The […] Continue reading
January 6, 2017
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Comments Off on My First OLA and NOMA
I completed my first NOMA back in October, but my first OLA today (due to some technical errors with the sound not working). I originally wasn’t too fussed with the idea of a literacy assessment as I’ve always seemed to be rather good with my grammar and punctuation, I wasn’t too keen on the idea […] Continue reading
December 29, 2016
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Comments Off on Common Purpose Study Abroad Opportunity – Malaysia!
Recently I’ve just returned home from a fantastic opportunity offered by the university to visit Kuala Lumpur on a leadership programme offered by Common Purpose. I’m still a little stunned, as I didn’t even think I’d be selected to go, however, I did and I had such an amazing time. The programme involved exploring what […] Continue reading
November 30, 2016
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Comments Off on Is Maths Fun?
For me, I always enjoyed maths at school, I enjoyed having one answer to a question and being able to proof that answer yourself, and I was actually rather good at it. However coming into this module I knew this was not the case for many of my colleagues and that within schools ‘maths anxiety’ can be […] Continue reading
November 28, 2016
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Comments Off on There’s maths in art… No i’m not going crazy!
Until I chose ‘Discovering Mathematics’ as my elective this year I was totally unaware just how much mathematics affects us in our everyday life’s during absolutely everything we do. One of the recent things that I have learnt is that maths is used just as much in a maths class as it is in an […] Continue reading
November 28, 2016
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Comments Off on Profound Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics
“Teachers must have a profound understanding of fundamental mathematics.” – Liping Ma, 2010 To teach maths, you must first understand maths. To understand maths you have to be fully engaged and willing to put yourself in your pupils’ shoes and learn. Liping Ma states that this is one of the most important factors in terms […] Continue reading
November 28, 2016
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Comments Off on Lets have fun, lets do maths!
One of the most important factors for me to have children engage with mathematics at a level that they want to learn and more important understand what they are learning is to make sure they enjoy what they are learning. In order for this to happen it is up to us, as teachers, parents and […] Continue reading
November 28, 2016
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Comments Off on Han’s The Magical Horse
The question can animals count arose during one of our mathematics inputs and it got me to thinking, well can they? We had been looking at Von Osten and his clever horse, Hans. Osten had a keen interest in animal intelligence and with the help of Hans, this would ultimately win him some degree of […] Continue reading
November 20, 2016
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Comments Off on Inspiring the Future – Redraw the Balance
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