Following the Krathwohl and Developmental Assessment (Griffin, 2014), I believe my current Zone of Proximal Development should be at the “Organizing” stage. At the start of the semester, I identified my ZDP the stage as “Responding”, as I was willing to passively receive information and attended all the learning environment, and while completing assessments following the formal requirements, I was not always engaged in discussion in the tutorials. Luckily, the natural of the very first assignment, the group constructed rubric, had greatly helped me to overcome the “participates in discussions” item of the “Responding” level. Throughout several active group discussions, we cooperatively finished the task, and I developed the confidence to participation
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I started to build a link between the assessment and learning process as I construct my own rubric for the second assessment, since I am really applying the theories and methods learnt in class into practice. As I was given the chance to develop my own assessment task during my placement this semester, I was able to use the activity and it’s rubric I’ve constructed in practice, and I was very thankful for the opportunities. I had two classes of different levels during placement, and my original rubric was not adequate for the both levels, so I ended up having to reconstruct my rubric to meet the actual learning needs and ZPDs of my students. This process had really helped me developed “a problem-solving attitude to issues in developmental assessment” and “demonstrates a commitment to assessment practice improvement”. The use of Guttman chart was a new idea for my placement school, and even though I did not get to do developmental activities with the students using the result of the Guttman chart, my mentor teachers displayed strong interest in the system and said that they will try to adopt the Guttman result in their future lesson planning with the students, which I believed to be a very positive result. Throughout this I have helped my mentor teachers to understand the Guttman system, and have also tried to helped my fellow teacher candidates when any …show more content…
Actions I have selected from their suggestions for my professional learning plan are: diary writing, analysis of teaching practice, and self-scaffolding.
Firstly, I believe diary writing will help me to demonstrate self-reliance as it is a practice that requires me to work independently and analysis and reflect upon my own teaching practice. Diary writing and analysis of teaching practice are in a way align with other, as the purpose of the diary is to provide teachers a resource to analysis their own teaching. I also believe that such self-reflection is essential for me to further develop my future professional development plan.
Moreover, self-scaffolding, which by Fani and Ghaemi’s (2011) definition, means the scaffolding teachers can receive by engaging in literatures and textbooks. As I plan to continue my master study, there for sure will be a lot of chances for me to engage in high-quality literatures to improve my teaching practice. Since the mater classes are not learning area specific, I plan to study materials and papers relating to my two learning areas as well. I believe this practice will help me with both of the items that I plan to
I started to build a link between the assessment and learning process as I construct my own rubric for the second assessment, since I am really applying the theories and methods learnt in class into practice. As I was given the chance to develop my own assessment task during my placement this semester, I was able to use the activity and it’s rubric I’ve constructed in practice, and I was very thankful for the opportunities. I had two classes of different levels during placement, and my original rubric was not adequate for the both levels, so I ended up having to reconstruct my rubric to meet the actual learning needs and ZPDs of my students. This process had really helped me developed “a problem-solving attitude to issues in developmental assessment” and “demonstrates a commitment to assessment practice improvement”. The use of Guttman chart was a new idea for my placement school, and even though I did not get to do developmental activities with the students using the result of the Guttman chart, my mentor teachers displayed strong interest in the system and said that they will try to adopt the Guttman result in their future lesson planning with the students, which I believed to be a very positive result. Throughout this I have helped my mentor teachers to understand the Guttman system, and have also tried to helped my fellow teacher candidates when any …show more content…
Actions I have selected from their suggestions for my professional learning plan are: diary writing, analysis of teaching practice, and self-scaffolding.
Firstly, I believe diary writing will help me to demonstrate self-reliance as it is a practice that requires me to work independently and analysis and reflect upon my own teaching practice. Diary writing and analysis of teaching practice are in a way align with other, as the purpose of the diary is to provide teachers a resource to analysis their own teaching. I also believe that such self-reflection is essential for me to further develop my future professional development plan.
Moreover, self-scaffolding, which by Fani and Ghaemi’s (2011) definition, means the scaffolding teachers can receive by engaging in literatures and textbooks. As I plan to continue my master study, there for sure will be a lot of chances for me to engage in high-quality literatures to improve my teaching practice. Since the mater classes are not learning area specific, I plan to study materials and papers relating to my two learning areas as well. I believe this practice will help me with both of the items that I plan to