My Learning Journey.
Throughout this assignment, I will discuss; My story, support roles in primary schools, key theories, and concepts about learning and my study plan. All names of both staff, children and the school have been changed to maintain confidentiality and anonymity (BERA, 2011) My Story
I have always wanted to be a teacher so after leaving school I started an apprenticeship as a teaching assistant in an infant school and this made my mind up that I wanted to be a primary school teacher, before taking on this role I was interested in teaching Physical Education in a secondary school. I made the decision to change my career to primary education because I enjoy the broad range of subjects and being able to make a difference in each …show more content…
The task was to find as many insects as possible in their garden and to note these down, once they had done this they were asked to find out what the insects were and 10 facts about 3 of the insects. The teacher stated the facts could be something the children already know about the insects as they had learned about the topic for a week. Once completed they will share some of their facts with their classmates. This observation supports Piaget 's theory of constructivism as the children will be learning by going out and doing the activity and will learn information through exploration. In addition, they will be using past knowledge which they had already learnt to come up with some facts, this supports the theory that learning will be constructed using prior learning. However, when observing many of the children put their hand up and one child asked ‘What if I don’t know anything about insects?’ This is an example of a child that may not be at the right level of cognitive maturity to be able to carry out the …show more content…
First they had to share what they already knew about the subject, then they had to research any gaps in their knowledge by using the internet or books which the teacher had supplied. This meant children learnt from books picked especially by the teachers as they had information they wanted the children to learn but also they learnt from their peers. By the end of the lesson all pupils could confidently tell me one fact about their topic, the fact each child had learned was clearly linked to their cognitive levels, for example the facts ranged from ‘a spider has eight legs’ to ‘Spider are arachnids which live all over the
Throughout this assignment, I will discuss; My story, support roles in primary schools, key theories, and concepts about learning and my study plan. All names of both staff, children and the school have been changed to maintain confidentiality and anonymity (BERA, 2011) My Story
I have always wanted to be a teacher so after leaving school I started an apprenticeship as a teaching assistant in an infant school and this made my mind up that I wanted to be a primary school teacher, before taking on this role I was interested in teaching Physical Education in a secondary school. I made the decision to change my career to primary education because I enjoy the broad range of subjects and being able to make a difference in each …show more content…
The task was to find as many insects as possible in their garden and to note these down, once they had done this they were asked to find out what the insects were and 10 facts about 3 of the insects. The teacher stated the facts could be something the children already know about the insects as they had learned about the topic for a week. Once completed they will share some of their facts with their classmates. This observation supports Piaget 's theory of constructivism as the children will be learning by going out and doing the activity and will learn information through exploration. In addition, they will be using past knowledge which they had already learnt to come up with some facts, this supports the theory that learning will be constructed using prior learning. However, when observing many of the children put their hand up and one child asked ‘What if I don’t know anything about insects?’ This is an example of a child that may not be at the right level of cognitive maturity to be able to carry out the …show more content…
First they had to share what they already knew about the subject, then they had to research any gaps in their knowledge by using the internet or books which the teacher had supplied. This meant children learnt from books picked especially by the teachers as they had information they wanted the children to learn but also they learnt from their peers. By the end of the lesson all pupils could confidently tell me one fact about their topic, the fact each child had learned was clearly linked to their cognitive levels, for example the facts ranged from ‘a spider has eight legs’ to ‘Spider are arachnids which live all over the