Its getting to the pointy end of semester again!! Where did all that time go? I feel like I have gotten so much out of this semester - I already felt like I could call myself a teacher, but now I think I know how I can become a good teacher! Formal avenues like the projects for EXE (more on that later), other uni subjects, and PD sessions have been stimulating my thoughts on my teaching philosophy, and providing lots of practical ideas. Informal conversations with other education students have also been invaluable.
As for the EXE projects, I haven’t had much feedback from the first one, but just doing it has shown me the kind of things I should chose to make the project both achievable and beneficial in terms of how I measure up to the VIT standards. I was originally going to look at Individual Learning Plans, but I think that would be better done in conjunction with practicum.
So I needed another topic. I went back to the audit I did at the start of the semester. I haven’t had much in the way of difficult behaviour in any of my teaching rounds, but as you can read under the Dancing category of this blog, I am starting to experience some difficult students. I have also attended a seminar on Student Behavioural Issues, and plan to attend several PD sessions at the Intensive PD Week being held at Deakin Uni in study week.
For this project I would like to draw all of this together, as well as do some more research, and achieve some measure of clarity and consistency in my classroom management strategies. I’ll keep posting on how I’ll do this, and what I learn!
