Professional Placement Essay
Introduction
This research essay will revolve around my professional placement experience and explore the statistics of the school I undertook my placement by analysing data from “my school”. I will also be discussing cosmopolitan classrooms and issuing relating to this topic. I will also be analysing how local and global factors impact cosmopolitan classrooms as well as how education policy relates to it.
School context
This semester I had the pleasure of undertaking my professional placement at a public secondary school located in the North-Western suburbs of Melbourne. I had some preconceptions about the school before entering the premises as ,when I first looked up the school, articles indicating that a young boy had been stabbed in front …show more content…
During my time undertaking this education degree have found myself constantly reflecting and looking back on my own primary/high school experiences and comparing them to that of my professional placements. I compare the environment, the schools resources, the overall culture of the school, the teachers, the students and of course the student’s attitudes towards their education. I am aware that it is unfair to make judgments on schools in regards to these comparisons as different schools may have factors which affect their students levels of educational achievement.. According to myschool.com (2015) Levels of socio-economic advantage usually have an impact on this.
Myschool.com provides an index of community socio-educational advantage (ICSEA) which gives information on student’s background and how personal and school level factors affect educational outcomes. ICSEA is a useful tool as it allows for fair comparisons to be made between students’ literacy and numeracy levels with schools that have similar levels of socio economic
This research essay will revolve around my professional placement experience and explore the statistics of the school I undertook my placement by analysing data from “my school”. I will also be discussing cosmopolitan classrooms and issuing relating to this topic. I will also be analysing how local and global factors impact cosmopolitan classrooms as well as how education policy relates to it.
School context
This semester I had the pleasure of undertaking my professional placement at a public secondary school located in the North-Western suburbs of Melbourne. I had some preconceptions about the school before entering the premises as ,when I first looked up the school, articles indicating that a young boy had been stabbed in front …show more content…
During my time undertaking this education degree have found myself constantly reflecting and looking back on my own primary/high school experiences and comparing them to that of my professional placements. I compare the environment, the schools resources, the overall culture of the school, the teachers, the students and of course the student’s attitudes towards their education. I am aware that it is unfair to make judgments on schools in regards to these comparisons as different schools may have factors which affect their students levels of educational achievement.. According to myschool.com (2015) Levels of socio-economic advantage usually have an impact on this.
Myschool.com provides an index of community socio-educational advantage (ICSEA) which gives information on student’s background and how personal and school level factors affect educational outcomes. ICSEA is a useful tool as it allows for fair comparisons to be made between students’ literacy and numeracy levels with schools that have similar levels of socio economic