This blog is my last blog, so I am going to take this time to reflect on my time in this unit.
Over the weeks I have learnt a lot about my teaching philosophies. I never really incorporated any of these concepts into my thinking, these include past-present, place thought and learning to be affected. I hadn't thought of the bringing the aboriginal culture into children's learning so this was a new way of thinking. In conclusion, this unit has opened my eyes to expanding my thoughts.
Sunday, May 22, 2016
Week 10
This week in my blog I am going to talk about my experiences at my 'engaging with place' placement. I am positioned at St Anne's Primary school in Sunbury. This is only a short 5 minute walk from my home. In the past weeks I have really enjoyed all the engaging with place, every day on my walk there I collect things that the kids can use to paint or sort. This has opened my eyes to many things such as we need to encourage kids to get in touch with nature and steer them away from technology as much as we can. In conclusion this placement has had a positive impact on me, I look forward to going back next semester.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Week 9
This weeks lessons for both History and Play development interested. We covered 3 topics, these included: children being capable, empowerment of children and lastly images of a child.
The first topic was revolved around what it means for a child to be capable. In my opinion this means that the child can understand the given task and can complete it independently at a reasonable standard. But with this in mind you still have to be considerate in the fact that every child learns at a different rate so this means that the definition of capable can vary with each child that you associate with.
Next was the notion of empowerment of children. What does it mean to empower someone?
Simply put it means to give others the power (or ability) to do something. As a teacher this can be done by giving the students an element of freedom, for example letting them work cooperatively with you to determine some classroom rules that need to be followed.
Lastly was all the different images of children, we read an article that explained to us in detail some of the types of children that we will come across when we teach. This was very interesting as it is evidence to the statement that 'every child is different'. It was helpful in the fact that it makes you think about how you are going to deal with the variety of personalities in your classroom.
The first topic was revolved around what it means for a child to be capable. In my opinion this means that the child can understand the given task and can complete it independently at a reasonable standard. But with this in mind you still have to be considerate in the fact that every child learns at a different rate so this means that the definition of capable can vary with each child that you associate with.
Next was the notion of empowerment of children. What does it mean to empower someone?
Simply put it means to give others the power (or ability) to do something. As a teacher this can be done by giving the students an element of freedom, for example letting them work cooperatively with you to determine some classroom rules that need to be followed.
Lastly was all the different images of children, we read an article that explained to us in detail some of the types of children that we will come across when we teach. This was very interesting as it is evidence to the statement that 'every child is different'. It was helpful in the fact that it makes you think about how you are going to deal with the variety of personalities in your classroom.
Week 7
Week 7 was a week I had been looking forward to for a while as this was when we were beginning our placement. I was very excited about this as I would finally be able to interact with children, which is my reasoning behind wanting to become a teacher. The placement is a very different concept which I really enjoy, it is revolved around the things we are learning in class about aboriginal culture, land and nature.
After witnessing the children get involved with this kind of learning it makes me become more motivated to engage with the learning in class as the future students that I will teach will enjoy this type of learning.
The aim of the play group is to steer children to play with the involvement of nature instead of using materialistic things. We got the children do things such as, making angels out of leaves, painting with sticks instead of paintbrushes and collecting then sorting sticks, leaves and rocks.
After witnessing the children get involved with this kind of learning it makes me become more motivated to engage with the learning in class as the future students that I will teach will enjoy this type of learning.
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