SC5 Demonstrated commitment and capacity to actively contribute to a broad range of school activities and a commitment to ongoing professional learning to enable further development of skills, expertise and teaching capacity.
As a teacher, I am strongly committed to the practice of connecting and communicating with the school community by being involved in co-curricular activities. My involvements have included fundraising, organising concerts and productions, school camps and coaching sporting teams. As a former media professional, I have filmed or photographed school plays, sports days, and events. I have also assisted school magazine co-ordinators with Photoshopping images and layout suggestions. At Mowbray, I was heavily involved in the …show more content…
I always embraced the opportunity involve myself in co-curricular events as it provides me with an opportunity to engage with students outside of a classroom teacher, and involve myself with their lives outside of the usual teacher/student setting. By understanding a student outside of the classroom, I feel that I can better understand them and can create quality teaching and learning experiences from this.
Reflection on my teaching is vital to my development. My Professional Development Plan has been invaluable to my ability to improve my teaching, and I have always received positive feedback from my supervisors. I have also taken the opportunity to mentor pre-service teachers to reflect on my teaching and learning. By helping to develop the pedagogies of student teachers, forcing me to consider what makes me a successful teacher, and their opinion of their observations of me has been a useful tool to help me incorporate new strategies in my …show more content…
My key responsibility was to manage and maintain the Zimmer Twins UGC initiative on the RollerCoaster website. As mentioned above, this involved overseeing the post-production of animations created by Kids Online ready for output to ABC Kids TV (ABC1 and ABC2) and online as downloadable vodcasts. This also gave me an excellent practical ground in media process, social values, influence, production, and the Australian media industry. I also was involved in developing and writing a teacher’s toolkit for another RollerCoaster UGC initiative, RollerMache. This was designed to offer teachers with a concise and complete introduction to Media Studies and English courses that can be delivered to students between years 6 to
As a teacher, I am strongly committed to the practice of connecting and communicating with the school community by being involved in co-curricular activities. My involvements have included fundraising, organising concerts and productions, school camps and coaching sporting teams. As a former media professional, I have filmed or photographed school plays, sports days, and events. I have also assisted school magazine co-ordinators with Photoshopping images and layout suggestions. At Mowbray, I was heavily involved in the …show more content…
I always embraced the opportunity involve myself in co-curricular events as it provides me with an opportunity to engage with students outside of a classroom teacher, and involve myself with their lives outside of the usual teacher/student setting. By understanding a student outside of the classroom, I feel that I can better understand them and can create quality teaching and learning experiences from this.
Reflection on my teaching is vital to my development. My Professional Development Plan has been invaluable to my ability to improve my teaching, and I have always received positive feedback from my supervisors. I have also taken the opportunity to mentor pre-service teachers to reflect on my teaching and learning. By helping to develop the pedagogies of student teachers, forcing me to consider what makes me a successful teacher, and their opinion of their observations of me has been a useful tool to help me incorporate new strategies in my …show more content…
My key responsibility was to manage and maintain the Zimmer Twins UGC initiative on the RollerCoaster website. As mentioned above, this involved overseeing the post-production of animations created by Kids Online ready for output to ABC Kids TV (ABC1 and ABC2) and online as downloadable vodcasts. This also gave me an excellent practical ground in media process, social values, influence, production, and the Australian media industry. I also was involved in developing and writing a teacher’s toolkit for another RollerCoaster UGC initiative, RollerMache. This was designed to offer teachers with a concise and complete introduction to Media Studies and English courses that can be delivered to students between years 6 to