Amna Abdulla
H00330365​
Introduction
This tab will show some evidence of my work in the teaching practice. It will include commitment to the profession, planning for learning, managing for learning, implementing learning, assessment, and reflection on practice. You can click the buttons below to see the 6 competencies.
Introduction
This tab will show some evidence of my work in the teaching practice. It will include commitment to the profession, planning for learning, managing for learning, implementing learning, assessment, and reflection on practice. You can click the buttons below to see the 6 competencies.
Introduction
This tab will include the goals that I want to achieve for each competency and what are the actions that I'm going to take for each goal. It also will include reflection about the actions that I took for each gaol. Finally, it will include some evidence of the action that I took for each goal.
Commitment to the profession
Goal
Action to take
Evidence
Reflection
* - Participate in school events during the teaching practice to demonstrate a positive attitude towards teaching and learning.
1. Brainstorm ideas for school events that I can implement in the school.
2. Set a meeting with the principle, and MST to talk about the ideas and possible dates to implement them.
Click on the picture to view my mind map.
3. Implement a school event.
Click on the picture to view the notes taking from the meeting.
4. Reflect on the school event.
Click on the picture to view my reflections on the events that I participated in.
Participating in school events is important because it develops many skills on you as a teacher. It improves communication and speaking skills. It also helps the teacher to build a positive relationship with a range of stakeholders across the school community. It allows the teacher to be a part of the school community, and it helps the teacher to demonstrate a positive attitude toward teaching and learning. Teachers learn from participating in school events on how to work as a team.
Planning for learning
Goal
Action to take
Reflection
Evidence
* - Write detailed lesson plan that has exact instructions to finish the lesson on time.
1. Search in the internet for some journals about writing a good lesson plan.
2. Have a meeting with the MST to talk about how to write a good lesson plan in order to finish the lesson on time.
3. Ask other teachers in the school to have more information about how to write a good lesson plan.
4. Attend the teacher meetings to have an idea of how the lesson plan looks like.
* - This goal develops my teaching way because writing detail lesson plan helps to finish the lesson on time, it also helps me to know what I'm going to do in the lesson. It also helps me to achieve my goals because everything is organized for me. It also helps me to assess the students according to their level because I'm able to write the key questions based on the student's level. This goal helps the students as well because they understand the lesson easily. Also, it helps me to have a range of activities for the students. It also helps me to be more confident. It also saves my time, because students understand the lesson easily.
5. Create lesson plans and show the MST to have some feedback.
6. Reflect of what I did in the lessons and have some feedback from the MST to improve my lesson plans.
Managing for learning
Goal
Action to take
Evidence
Reflection
*- Implement 4 new strategies to rotate the students between carpet time and center time.
1. Search in the internet to find 3 journals, articles, or videos about strategies to rotate the students between carpet time and center time.
2. Have a meeting with the MST to discuss the strategies that I can implement to rotate the students between carpet time and center time.
3. Develop the resources that I can use to rotate the students between carpet time and center time.
The transition between the activities helps you as a teacher to manage the classroom because students will follow the instructions, and you don’t need to shout and call their names. It also saves your time as a teacher because students know what they have to do and how they will rotate between the activities. It also gives all the students a chance to do all the activities, and this will help you as a teacher as well in assessing the students’ understanding.
Click on the picture to view my notes on best strategies to rotate students between carpet and center time.
Click on the picture to view the notes that I wrote from my MST's meeting.
4. Reflect of the strategies that I use to rotate the students between carpet time and center time.
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Implementing learning
Goal
Action to take
Reflection
Evidence
*- Implement a variety of activities according to the children level to ensure that all students are engaged in the lesson.
1. Search in the internet to find some engaging activities that I can implement during center time.
2. Have a meeting with the MST to have more ideas of engaging activities that I can implement during center time.
3. Plan lessons including the engaging activities that I implement.
4. Implement the engaging activities during center time.
As a teacher, it is important to include engaging activities in your lesson because it will lead to have an effective learning environment. Using engaging activities helps the students to be more motivated, and they will do their best to participate in the classroom. It also develops the critical thinking skills in the students.
Click on the picture to view possible engaging activities that I can implement during center time.
Click on the picture to view my notes with my MST on possible activities to implement during center time.
Click on the picture to view my lesson plans.
Assessment
Goal
Action to take
Evidence
Reflection
*- Implement 4 new strategies to assess the students for their learning in phonics lessons.
1. Search in the internet to find some articles and journals about the strategies to assess the students for phonics lessons.
2. Have a meeting with the MST to talk about the new strategies to assess the students during phonics lessons.
3. Include new strategies to assess students during phonics lessons in the lesson plan.
Click on the picture to view my notes on possible strategies to assess the students during phonics lessons.
Click on the picture to view my notes with my MST on possible formative assessment strategies to implement during phonics lessons.
It is important to implement new formative assessment strategies to assess the students during the phonics lessons because it helps the teacher to know the exact level of each student. It also helps the teacher to improve the academic level of the students. Implementing new strategies to assess the students, helps the teacher to improve her teaching. It also motivates the students to work hard and it makes the class more fun for the students .
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4. Reflect on the strategies that I implement to assess the students during phonics lessons.
Click on the picture to view my reflection on the strategies that I implemented during phonics lessons.
Reflection
Goal
Action to take
Reflection
Evidence
*- Reflect after each lesson to see what went well and what did not went well to improve my teaching.
1. After each lesson, talk with the MST to discuss about the lesson and what went well and how to improve.
2. Search on 2-3 journals, articles about how to reflect of lesson.
3. Reflect of each lesson to see what went well and what did not went well.
As a teacher, it is important to reflect on your lessons because it gives you an idea of your achievements. It also tells you what wnet well and what did not go well in your lessons. Reflecting on my teaching makes positive changes in the classroom. It also helps me as a teacher to be able to assess a student's understanding . It shows the strengths and weaknesses on my lesson plan.
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Click on the picture to view my MST's feedback on me lessons
Click on the picture to view my notes on how to write a good reflection.
Click on the picture to view my reflections in my lessons .