REPORT

ON TEACHING PRACTICUM


Student: Chelsea Lemon
Date: May 2015
Class Level: Year 3/4
School: Hamilton West School
Mentor Teacher: Maree Quill
Faculty Mentor: Jenny Ferrier-Kerr


Chelsea is proving to be a thoughtful, reflective, and committed teaching
professional who has established effective and positive professional
relationships with the students in her placement class. She consistently seeks to
use her initiative and draw on her creativity in a range of classroom situations.
Notably, Chelsea is developing greater confidence in her teaching pedagogy,
although this is not aligning especially well with that of her mentor teacher at
present.

Chelseas preparation and planning for teaching are focused and exceptionally
well organised. She already understands the importance of developing clear
learning intentions so that quality teaching, learning and assessment can occur.
By paying attention to students different learning needs and behaviours Chelsea
is able to develop appropriate and relevant learning programmes even though
this can be somewhat at odds with her mentor teachers views about how
children learn and are expected to behave. Importantly, Chelsea understands the
importance of gathering evidence in order to make judgements about students
progress and achievement and their learning needs at this Year 3-4 level.

Chelseas relationships with students are warm, professional, productive, and
learning focused. She is able to draw on a range of management strategies in a
variety of classroom situations in order to develop and sustain a positive
learning environment. This can be a challenge at times when it is not as her
mentor teacher would do. Nevertheless, Chelsea is able to adapt her teaching
during teaching particularly when she notices that students are not engaged and
importantly, why they are not engaged.

While this placement has been challenging for Chelsea in a number of ways, with
the support of the schools associate lecturer in particular she has been able to
persevere and succeed.

Jenny Ferrier-Kerr
Faculty Mentor
May 2015