What Is My Pdp Goal

Before my three week block, one of my PDP goal was to improve my classroom management and time management. For first two weeks, I have been working on these two areas because I did not feel confident in managing the classroom without my co-op teacher there in the kindergarten room. I learned that when I was planning my lesson, I had to think about what time I am teaching and how they are going to respond to my lesson. Since my kindergarten class had strict routine, for first few days, I did not get their full attention because my lesson occurred during their centre time. Throughout my lesson, they would ask when they are going to have centre time, and did not put much effort into their task was one of the things I had to think about as I was …show more content…
After couple days later, I adapted my lesson to make it more fun and engaging to kindergartens by relating to their interest at the moment. I learned that because I planned my lesson ahead of time not knowing much about students interest, I had hard time managing the class during my lesson, and I was never able to finish on time. However, more I got to know students, I was able to plan lessons that got students engaged. For my internship, I want to work on getting to know students interest which will help me with classroom management, and also time management where I can complete my full lesson on time.
One of the strength I developed over my pre-internship was dealing with chaos during the play time. As I said on …show more content…
Using KWL chart really helped me with planning my lesson because at first I was going to start by explaining ways to help the earth from being polluted, but since I am teaching it to kindergartens and many do not know the concept of environment, what lives in our environment, and why we have to help our environment. One student even said “why do we have to clean our environment? We can all move to space”. Knowing where students are at and what their thoughts are, I was able to create a lesson that provide students with different ways of adding depth to learning. I used youtube video, lots of book reading, hands on learning in different centers showing pollution. Also for every closure I had students come back to the carpet circle to tell me what they have learned to assess their learning. In kindergarten, I found it hard to have different working arrangements, so I kept it in small groups of 4 for centres, whole group when explaining,demonstrating and closing the lesson and individual working for other