During my time at Quorn Area School, I am expecting to see the many differences between country and city culture, as well as the differences in teaching and learning styles. I hope that I am able to see how different the staff and students are in comparison to my first observational placement. Furthermore, I am eager to see whether or not subjects are a little different. Considering the school is placed in the country, I am hoping to see some agricultural based subjects and if such subjects are taught, it would be interesting to see how. In regards to what I expect to learn during my time at Quorn Area School, I hope a lot. I am looking forward to learning new pedagogical practices, other than what I 've observed in a primary school context. Furthermore, I am eager to learn how teachers have structured their lesson plans in accordance to the Australian Curriculum, and also, how students (depending on their individual learning styles) react to each …show more content…
However, it was interesting to see how students ' learning styles develop from a primary school age group to a high school age group. The teachers at Quorn Area School seemed to cater to most learning styles. I witnessed quite a lot of lessons that catered to auditory, visual and kineasthetic learners, as well as multi-modal learners. I believe that the teachers would have been able to cater to all learning styles at once if they had access to many of the resources that most schools now have i.e. interactive white boards, laptops and so forth. In short, despite lack of resources, the teachers did a magnificent job of catering to students ' individual learning styles. However, I would have liked to see teachers implement teaching strategies that catered to the school 's indigenous students and their learning