Date: Friday, 31st March 2017
Today I Did:
For Placement 3, I am going to an all girls secondary Catholic College, with 620 students from Years 8-12. XXXX is a vibrant, inclusive and hopeful community, in which each individual is valued. Our passionate, generous and highly competent staff, prepare students for future challenges by encouraging creativity, perseverance and resilience. They encourage excellence. We strive to develop within each girl confidence in her particular talents and abilities and the knowledge that she is important and unique.
The College I am to be involved with outlines this mission: • engender a passion for lifelong learning. • encourage excellence. • value each individual’s gifts and talents. • are generous with our time and care of each student so that she develops her full potential. • are a welcoming, vibrant and inclusive community in which we celebrate diversity. • prepare students for future challenges by encouraging creativity, perseverance and resilience. • encourage young women to work for social justice so that they recognise that they can make a difference. • allow students to explore their own faith journey. • nurture faith in Catholic tradition. • empower students to practise reconciliation. • understand and accept the challenge of the Gospels to challenge injustice. • are proud to be part of the community and are advocates for the school. • have passionate, generous and highly competent staff. • are hopeful. I see this as being a good fit with my current values as an educator but all my personal Catholic values I have. I am looking forward to the challenges that placement has for me but also the challenges and new approaches which an all girls schooling context will throw at me. Positive Relationship Builder
I have come to a frightening conclusion. Roles
Teacher Colleague Friend Family member
Responsibilities People (use of interpersonal skills)
Relationships
Choose one justice alert. How you would respond to it in terms of your own experiences of schooling?
The justice alert I have chosen is 'who is heard and who finds it difficult to be heard?' This means is everyone being heard and voiced in discussion and being active in classroom life. This does not just involve the student but the teachers as well. It involve the classroom being structured in a way that allow the entire class to be heard and no one to fall into the background and be unnoticed. In terms of my schooling I found that It was very easy to fall in the the background and not be heard or notice. This is why I always tried to be what is classed as an active student. I would be involved in classroom life and make I self notice in the appropriate manner. I found myself as a result being able to talk problems out with my teacher and fellow student and also being able to balance my work whilst still being able to help other and make use of my interpersonal skills. This was all as a result of gaining feedback from my teachers and fellow students and adjusting my behaviourism if I felt it was required. As a teacher I would need to make sure that I am paying attention to the introverts and the extroverts. Think back to previous teachers who inspired and /or supported you. List some of their characteristics and behaviours. Do the same for teachers who you perceived negatively.
Positive
I want to be a teacher, so that I can influence and make a difference in student life. I want to see that smile on their face when they learn something new or achieve something they did not believe they could.
I see myself teaching them not only fact about topics but engaging them and enabling them to relate to each topic. I will show them valuable skills, teach moral and correct behaviour that will enable them success in the world, that they live and breathe. As a teacher I need to be constantly learning and improving upon myself both as a person and as a teacher of young impressionable students. I need to be someone that students can relate to and that they feel comfortable around but at the same time have them respect mu authority as their teacher. I need to form social and professionally acceptable relationships to do this. I need to be consistent with my judgement and my marking and assessment to in-turn be fair to all students' need to be understandable. I will need to notice when something is wrong with the child, it may be out of the ordinary and have the ability to help them through it if necessary. I will need to do administration work and comply with the rules of teaching and a professional among with everyone. I look forward to working on my skills and become a great teacher, the one my previous teachers were for me and the one I want to me. Professional Experience will help me. |