Teaching experience

Within the profession of teaching, having a positive and enthusiastic approach within lessons has repeatedly been proven to drastically impact on the learning that takes place in the classroom. A teacher’s efficacy has a vital influence on their own personal behaviour, beliefs and motivation with their students and succeeding outcomes (Woolfolk & Hoy, 1990) having an individual interest and motivation to make science a fun and engaging subject is key to its delivery in a lesson. With being able to

known as micro teaching is practiced all over the world. This technique helps the teachers to improve their teaching skills. The history of microteaching goes back to the early and mid-1960's, when Dwight Allen and his colleagues (Bush, McDonald, Acheson and many more) from the Stanford University developed a training program aimed to improve verbal and nonverbal aspects of teacher's speech and general performance. According to D.W.Allan (1966), “Micro teaching is a scaled down teaching encounter in

TEACHING METHODS OR APPROACHES. • Choosing suitable methods to help learner’s master learning content has for a long time been a main area of contention in the field of teaching. • There are two approaches to teaching: the teacher-directed approach as well as the learner-centred approach. • The teacher-directed approach is based on reception learning, which means that the content to be learnt is presented to the learner in its final form. • The learner-centred approach means that the material to

As I observed the class of the experienced practitioner(EP), I noticed that she stated clear objectives, emphasized and worked to meet those specific objectives throughout the plan. She ensured that the lesson was supported with appropriate resources to cater to the needs, interests and abilities of all learners. The EP included meaningful activities that are contextually relevant and engaging. I could see the enthusiasm rising in the students when they were asked to solve real life situations that

interactive. I got to see and hear teachers that have been teaching for so many years, giving very good advises on how to be an awesome teacher. The film was showing the life of an American teacher. How this job is so important in the life of the children, and how hard is to keep up with what they need to succeed and go strong. But, in all is also undervalued by the society. In the film teachers expressed their frustration talking about their experiences. Some teachers said that they didn’t expect to have

to have more time for activities and for students to share their ideas. Along with the video lesson plan I also created a quiz so that I could assess what the students learned after watching the video. According to the Illinois Professional Teaching Standard Knowledge Indicator 5C, “knows how to implement effective differentiated instruction through the use of a wide variety of materials, technologies, and resources,” I met the qualifications and demonstrated my understanding of this standard

put training into practice, to become accustomed to teaching in the tertiary school settings, and to develop and expand each trainee’s teaching expertise and confidence. In the following paragraph, I will express what I have learnt from doing practicum to reflect on my past teaching strengths and weaknesses from the teaching practicum. Firstly, I would like to talk about the lesson planning and delivering. As we have already learnt from Teaching Methodology 402, lesson plan works as guideline and

I honestly would not make any changes to my original teaching philosophy statement because I believe that after reading through the entire phycology book, the things I read only supported the things I stated in my philosophy statement. When writing my philosophy statement I had not taken any previous education classes to aid my original teaching philosophy but I have been working with kids my entire life and so I have seen first hand what things work with children and what does not. This does not

and Shared Reading In the article, “Teaching rimes with shared reading” written by Sharon Gill, she states that daily practice of shared reading can lead to successful and enjoyable reading experiences for our youngest learners (p. 191). Shared reading is a wonderful vehicle to help young readers with basic skills such as one-to-one correspondence, fluency, and vocabulary. Researcher Richard Allington also concluded the importance of shared reading experiences for our students whose second language

1. Demonstrates an attitude of reflection and thoughtfulness about professional growth and instruction. Reflections and thoughtfulness about professional growth and instruction has become a part of my everyday routine while I have been student teaching. After each day, I take time to think about how the lessons for the day went and what I could do to improve as a teacher. Also, I get feedback from my mentor teacher and the co-teacher in the classroom on things that they noticed that I could improve