End of year 1

(21/04/2016) I cannot believe that this is the end, the last lecture was with Sujan. I have learned a lot this year and I have enjoyed some aspects of assessment and others not so much. I just have a couple of assignments to hand in and I will be finished. I really like the fact…

Making my product

(20/04/2016) I adapted the twister game to my liking and something which could be used for pimary school kids. It can be appropriate for children between the ages of 1-5 – if you lessen down the hardness of the game, children that age cannot obviously manoevure their body to the awkward positions the twister game…

Pakistani Risk Group

(12/03/2016) Our formative assessment for the module “Meeting the needs of diverse communities” was to create a presentation in groups regarding the chosen risk group, as a group we got chosen to do Pakistani children. I found a lot of information surrounding Pakistani children – the main one being that Pakistani children 10 years did…

My Micro-teach Session!

(10/03/16) My micro-teach session was based on “Healthy Eating” – it has been the most challenging thing which I have done this year, but it was so worth it! Putting together my lesson plan took me 4 hours of planning, including producing relevant resources for the children to use. When beginning my micro-teach I was…

Starting at a nursery…..

(23/03/16) I started my placement at my local nursery, they encouraged free play and there was activities all set out in different areas of the room. The children then came and explored and played with the toys and activities. I noticed how the early years practitioners did not brand deviant behavior as “naughty” instead they…

COMMON PURPOSE – DAY 2

09/02/16 The second day of our course we got put together in groups and we had to go to a business in Bradford. We got chosen to go to LCF law firm in Bradford, it was an exciting experience -as I have never been interested in the industry of law and I had no idea…

COMMON PURPOSE

08/02/16 I decided to attend this course for the period of  over two days, because of what it had advertised. Common purpose helps people develop leadership skills worldwide. On the morning of the first day I was feeling nervous because there were a lot of different people there from different HE courses, which were obviously…

Lesson Planning

(04/02/16) In this weeks session I learnt that as a teacher I will need to use a  range of resources when delivering my lessons. For example, puppets, books, building blocks, fake money, white boards and pens and laptops. These resources need to be utilized appropriately in lessons to consolidate their learning and match the children’s…

Inclusion, Diversity, Equality…

(29/01/2016) Those are the three words which teachers have to be aware of whilst teaching. It explains why my maths teacher took out his time to teach me the basics before I could fully do the bigger equation and feel “included” in lessons. If he had not done that – I would not feel like…

The Beginning Of Semester Two!!!!

It has been a good start to semester two, but I do feel that semester two will be more challenging than semester one. This is due to having more modules to do as well as  being assessed in different ways. The “Introduction to Teaching” allows you to be assessed by a micro-teaching session where I…