How To Write A Personal Reflection On The Practicum Experience

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the practicum is so designed that collaboration and feedback possibilities are scheduled on a daily basis where the Associate Teacher and the student teacher discuss lesson planning, classroom management and teaching practice. I have been placed Ryde Secondary College that partially selective high school that mean mathematics classes is operating in two different categories such as selective classes and normal classes that is consists of local students who lives in their catchment areas and commenced on 20.July 2015. I have withdrawn on 10th Aug that decisions made by PEU. During my prac, I have taught Yr 7(ME) , Yr7(MC)-one lesson only , Yr 9 (MC) class and Yr10(MC) one lesson .I believe I did not have support or poor support from AT that …show more content…
One of my report from previous AT teacher at Dulwich commented on how I taught. My AT at Ryde Secondary College did not show store room to use or what to use. She just told me that prepare worksheets for 4 lower ability students. I never have seen any worksheets for them how she prepared and how it related to topic. AT knew 4 students not used to do 4 operations such as multiplication, division, subtraction and addition. But she did not give them times tables to do worksheet. I gave them to use because one of students told me.
Also for two different mathematics classes, I had to us my own study materials because of limitation of text books and recommendations books at school. I have struggled to select questions for review questions and main examples for each topic because of limitation. Also there were not enough sources for YR10 selective class when ANNE visited. This class only teaching halfway of Yr 11 works such as not introduced radian and just used degree when their topic was further
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My class was 7ME and I had to set up my own classroom strategy such as using students who was not participate in and low engagement students or called names to ask questions. One of funniest thing is I could not see one student disrupted other because I was helping other students but she was blaming me. On next period, I had observed Yr7 MD – which is one more level upper than ME class. There were 3 teachers included me and main teacher was busying to helping other students and she did not see that one student was disrupting other student by taking book and pen. I stop him and came to main teacher to ask. She did not see this situation till I came to her and she told AT that” I am sorry I could not see “ after that

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