Scenario:
On the final day of your placement, the Principal calls you in for an informal post-placement (Student Teacher) discussion. Throughout this discussion, you are asked the following questions:
1. What were some the key experiences throughout your placement that you feel significantly shaped your practice?
2. Were there any situations that you found particularly challenging? How did you respond/deal with these?
3. Have you achieved your goals you had set for this placement? What are the key areas that your feel you have grown most in, throughout this placement?
4. What are your main goals for your next ‘Ready to Teach’ placement? How do you plan to work towards these?

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Ensure that your responses relate back to the questions/scenario and specifically to the context of teaching.
 You need to discuss the knowledge you’ve gained throughout the unit in your Podcast and make links back to the literature. For example, if your goal was to build a positive relationship with your mentor, provide examples of what you did, but also link that back to the theory that you explored throughout the weekly readings.
 Support your discussion with specific examples/references to your placement.
 Reflect on your strengths, weaknesses and future goals.
 Teachers need to be reflective. It’s really important to always have a goal in mind, or an area to improve on. Teaching is always changing and progressing, which means that we always need to be changing and evolving.

FOR EXAMPLE –

• A challenge on your placement might have been that the classroom did not have a collaborative/supportive atmosphere. You might refer back to the readings from Groundwater-Smith, Ewing & Le Cornu (2011) and their checklist of things that can contribute to a supportive environment to discuss what the classroom was missing.
It was difficult to create a supportive environment while on my placement, because teachers were not always enthusiastic about what they were teaching and this was reflected in the students lack of energy and motivation. Groundwater-Smith, Ewing and Le Cornu discuss the importance of having a positive attitude in their work. This wasn’t reflected in my classroom when my mentor….. When I was teaching I tried to….
It was difficult on my placement to share my ideas, because I didn’t always feel supported by the people that I was working with.
• There be a particular curriculum area that you really enjoyed observing/teaching….
Something that really influenced me on prac was the way that my mentor organised her numeracy classes. They always ensured that they catered for all learners and provided enabling and extending prompts, to ensure that all students were progressing in their learning at their point of need. It was great to see this in practice. The structure of the lesson was inspired by Peter Sullivan who has researched strategies to engage all types of learners and help them to develop a love of mathematics.
• Assessing learning and providing feedback might be something you want to discuss and you could link to this back to Brookhart (2008)……..

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