Student Teaching Reflection My student teaching provided me with was an experience that will best benefit me into my future teaching career. I had the opportunity to teach in a 1stgrade classroom. The class started out with 17 students‚ 5 girls and 12 boys‚ but one student moved away and the class size dropped to 16 students‚ leaving the class with 4 girls and 12 boys. My cooperating teacher and the students accepted me into their classroom and were excited to have another teacher in the room
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Critical reflection. What do we really mean? Patricia Lucas Auckland University of Technology (and PhD student Deakin University) Do we really know what critical reflection means in the context of work-integrated learning‚ more specifically cooperative education? Critical reflection‚ in some form‚ is located within many higher education programmes‚ including cooperative education and many educators would say this is important for in-depth student learning. It is a form of reflection that is
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Introduction Trofino (n.d) states that to succeed in the nursing profession‚ nurses must be ready for a high-touch‚ high-caring and high-tech profession where learning never cease. According to the Singapore Nursing Board (2014)‚ nurses are required to maintain their competencies through continuing nursing education in order to deliver safe patient care and to keep updated with the advances and innovations in healthcare. Working in the Emergency Department (ED) Television programme has
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been different definitions of reflection in relation to reflective practice (Dewey‚ 1938; Kolb‚ 1984; Schön‚ 1981; Pollard 2008; Moon 1999). From this it could be argued that reflective practice in its simplest terms is looking back on a situation either at the time or a later date to critically analyse that event in terms of what went well‚ what can be improved and the overall outcome of that situation. Teachers have become comfortable with the idea of reflective practice through Donald Schon’s (1983)
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my penultimate Lab Band teaching‚ it’s hard to believe how fast this semester is passing. As I prepare for my final teaching this week‚ it’s important to critically analyze my second teaching so that I can learn from any mistakes‚ and build upon previous successes. For the most part‚ I think that my second Lab Band teaching went very well. I would consider it a much better performance than my first‚ primarily because of how much I was able to accomplish. In my first teaching‚ I felt that I lost too
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presentation in front of a group of 27 students.The concept of reflective practice centres around the idea of life long learning in which a practitioner analyses experiences in order to learn from them.Reflective essay helps to promote critical thinking and analytical skills of the student.Reflective practice concept was introduced by Donald Schon (1983) and later many other researchers also been described reflective practice [Kurt Lewin‚Jean Piaget(1993)‚Benner and Wrubel (1989) Gibbs (1988) and Johnson
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Sam Rall Foundations of Education Prof. Yaw October 12‚ 2011 Sittser: Changing the View on Society’s Students Teaching is a unique profession in today’s workplace. It is an occupation that will not give you a promotion very easily based on performance. It is also an occupation that can be seen as something that is not highly enough reimbursed for the impact it has on the lives of young people. A teacher needs an incredible passion for children/adolescents in order to be an effective educator. The
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words has the potential for much more exploration than we used in our peer teaching. We intend to explore each of Laban’s movement elements including “body awareness; space awareness; the awareness of weight‚ time‚ and flow; and the adaptation to partners and groups” (Bergmann‚ 1995‚ p.157). We chose to begin the development of our dance with an introduction to shapes. As Mary Joyce wrote in her book ‘First Steps in Teaching Creative Dance to Children‚’ “shapes are done first because they become
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The peer teaching lesson I created was on graphing through problem solving in an inquiry-based environment. I had a broad idea of what I wanted to accomplish‚ and with the help of my professor‚ peers‚ and host teacher I was able to create the lesson that accomplished the concept I wanted to sharpen. My host teacher gave me some ideas to keep the students engaged‚ because she was afraid if there was a lot of wait time that the students would get out of hand. My professor gave me the idea of showing
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Core Module: Teaching and Learning: Theory and Practice Level 5 By: Kathryn Arnott-Gent Tutor: Liz Hinks Submission Date: w/c 16th May 2011 Introduction For the purpose of this assignment and to meet all the relevant criteria‚ I have chosen to focus my assessment tool on the two day foundation training that all volunteers must attend before progressing onto further projects. This assignment includes a report which will
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