During micro teaching
by tutors, this helped me get an idea on how to plan a session even if it was
for just 10 mins. My micro teaching experience was daunting
at first but as I kept going I felt more comfortable discussing my
cultural background with my peers. I feel like the planning form helped a lot
because I use this method already in my practice and outside studying. This
skill is something that I will carry out in the future. The way I carried out
my session was by communicating with my peers while we were learning/ making
things, this is also something I feel like my teaching styles may be like.
During my time at
Darwin Aldridge Community Academy 'DACA' for placement, a teacher told me that
a student ‘X’ felt uncomfortable talking about her learning difficulty which
was dyslexia, so she advised me not to bring it up inappropriately. Because I
have a learning disability, I felt that I could help or relate to her in some
way. So how I approached her was by asking X about her studies. We had a
conversation about my decision between wanting to be a paramedic and doing art.
I mentioned that I did not know I had dyslexia which explained my ability in
reading and writing. I shared a bit of my personal experience relating to what
I knew about her by the teacher. X eventually felt comfortable enough to
declare that she too had dyslexia. I comforted her and supported her to what
she wanted to become; a drama teacher.
At the time of the
moth workshop, I feel like I lacked I participation. So from this, I in
putted my ideas and thoughts when it came to planning the workshops in
the fourth week at DACA. As a team, we managed to cooperate and gather
everyone’s ideas together and came up with something educational as well as fun
for the year 7’s. This workshop looks like it will be successful as my group
have great contact with each other. We are all from different practices; knit,
embroidery and art history. So we all have something we can bring to the table
and have a great outcome.
During placement in
one lesson there was one particular group of girls that were not participating
in the lesson and disrupting other student learning. In the room you could feel
the frustration the female teacher had felt. However she remained cool, calm
and collected. The teacher gave out several warnings which lead to students
being sent out to cool down but students continued to
mistreat her teaching. So the last resort for the teacher was to take their
breaks away. The tutor explained their expectations and how it
will affect their future during break. If I was in the teacher’s
situation, I would have done the same thing. But how miss managed to compose
herself while he girls were laughing continuously is beyond me. This is
something that I will defiantly need to work on. From experience, girls would
tend to misbehave around female teachers maybe because of jealousy but in front
of male teachers, they would concentrate. I would be wrong but this is from a
personal view.
Technology is
becoming more and more demanding in most jobs these days. I feel like I lack in
knowledge in this department. I can easily work with machinery, but when it
comes to Photoshop or illustrator it doesn’t click with me. During placement,
students were expected to work with technology in lessons, not only with
Photoshop but with other technical features such as; cd, mug, 3d printers. So
if I want to be an art teacher I would need this knowledge to improve my
practice further.
The educator
programme has so far given me the best in knowledge of how to approach people
with different abilities in education and how to express any ideas or thoughts
that I may have. From the child protection session, I feel like I have a
basic understanding on how to communicate with students from different
background as my placement in DACA, has allowed me to interact with students
that have; learning disabilities or poor background.
