That’s it. It’s over! Boy, did this placement go quick.
Whilst the first couple of weeks at this school were chaotic, I grew to love this placement. I now definitely know what kind of school I want to work in. An inner-city multicultural school where I can make a difference. In other words in a [...]
Monday
Class teacher was ill. So, I had to take the lesson with a supply teacher present. Like usual, I told them to just support as I would take responsibility of teaching. After the lesson, I conversed with the teacher about schools that they had covered lessons.
Continued coursework with year 10’s in the afternoon.
Tuesday
Had my final [...]
Back from 2 week spring break. First week of summer term!
Monday
There was no CPD session in the morning thus I started the day with Year 10 continuing coursework.
ended the day with the Year 8’s where we…
Tuesday
Tuesday was PSHE, which stands for Physical Social and Health Education if you didn’t know. This means all lessons [...]
Monday
Taught lessons as usual.
Year 8
year 10
Tuesday
Taught lessons as usual.
Year 7
Wednesday
Year 7
Year 10 - Introduced coursework Mayfield school
Thursday
Had an observation with Year 8
Year 7 - assignment extension
Friday
Coursework moderation day for teaching staff and teacher training for non-teaching staff.
Targets for the comings weeks:
Lesson plans for first half of summer term
Complete lesson evaluations
I’m really tired so I’ll leave [...]
Monday - Easter Monday
Tuesday - Yr 10, Yr 8
Wednesday - Yr 7 & table flipping incident.
Thursday - 7C & 8.4
Friday - Invigilated Year 8 mock SATs whole morning… Then went onto teaching Yr 8 in the afternoon.
Monday
5 teachers were out of the department today. You can imagine the result.
Had period 5 with my Year 10.
Tuesday
Taught Year 7 during period 1. Spent the rest of the day planning for my observation tomorrow.
Wednesday
My tutor came to observe me during period 2. My demonstration was the worst to date. However the pupils saved [...]
The CPD session was canceled on Monday. Took my Year 10’s for the first time. Despite the strong winds and rain outside, the mappd in the class was very settled. I was taken back with the amount of noise and disruption, comparatively non-existent.
Tuesday… (to be continued)
Wednesday… During the professional studies session I received news of [...]
We began Monday as usual with professional studies. The session was on EAL. We looked at and discussed case studies of EAL pupils. Ended the day by attending faculty meeting where we had a presentation of mathletics.com.
I took my first lesson with my Year 7’s on Tuesday.
Wednesday was world Maths day. So, we decided to [...]
I started my second placement on Monday 25th of February.
What a difference!
From the moment I stepped into a class I could feel the difference compared to my first placement. Pupils throwing exercise books around, and running around like headless chicken.
Anyway, during my first professional studies session I learnt that not all “Outstanding” lessons need be [...]
As SE1 comes to it’s end, I have mixed emotions. On one hand, I am happy that it’s finally over but quite sad that I’ve left (never thought I’d ever be saying that!).
My major target was to build up my confidence during this placement, and I can report that I have definitely achieved that.
After a [...]