Description of / prompting questions for what you need to do:
- In consultation with teacher or other education professional, identify teaching and learning approaches applicable to the relevant education environment What educational approach does the school or class teacher follow?
- Confirm the teaching and learning approach and its principles of practice with the supervisor Discuss how the school/teacher/SLSO’s implement this approach. What strategies do they use?
- Select resources to support the learning approach What resources are used to support this approach? It could be the classroom design or furniture, learning materials
- Work with teacher to plan learning activities and classroom supervision of student interactions
What strategies does the teacher use to encourage students to interact/ behave in keeping with this approach? Are lessons conducted specifically for this purpose?
Conduct the learning activities and supervision of student interactions How have you supported and implemented the activities the teacher uses above?
1.Demonstrate principles of practice in the learning environment that reflect specified learning approaches
What strategies have you used in your own behaviour that have supported this approach?
2.This task requires you to contribute to planning and implement (not plan by yourself) the activities that have been planned by the teacher. These activities must include one each of the following:
- One literacy activity with a group of children
- One literacy activity with one child
- One numeracy activity with a group of children
- One numeracy activity with one child
Complete the table below demonstrating how you have implemented these activities. Once this table is complete, please ask your supervising teacher to verify and sign the table at the bottom.
Date you implemented the activity.
Include how many students were included also for group activities.
How were the needs of identified students met in how this activity was planned? What strategies would you use to address these needs?
Describe how you planned and implemented the activity. What factors are affecting the acquisition of literacy/ numeracy (discuss this with the teacher and record to discussion)
How did you manage student interactions to ensure their effective participation and understanding in the activity? How did you maintain effective relationships with the students? (ensure these are engaging and relevant)
How did you adjust resources to the individual needs of the students and unexpected situations? This could be either human or physical factors
Monitor the student progress during these activities against the outcomes. Document examples of how students have progressed (use initials only)
Group literacy activity
Individual literacy activity
Group numeracy activity
Individual numeracy activity
3.In your maths activity, what strategies did you use to encourage students to improve mental computation skills? Explain why this was appropriate to their developmental level.
4.When you implemented the maths activities, what strategies did you use to ensure students checked for reasonableness of solutions when calculating (consider estimating and technology to help with this).
5.When implementing the language and literacy activities, what strategies did you use to monitor student understanding and use of language? (consider use of observation, listening and conversation and give examples). Explain how you have provided this information to the teacher to support future planning.
Strategies used:
6.Give an example of how you have used explicit literacy language to help students to focus on specific literacy skills.
7.What specific strategies have you used to scaffold student learning? Include at least 3 strategies.
8.Give an example of how you have established learning environments that assist students to work collaboratively.
