PTLLS Overview

Planning and preparation of teaching is supremely important, the teacher and teaching assistant need to work together to achieve the best learning result. Lesson plans and structures will be implemented and will be catered for each learner; they will include teaching methods and techniques, assessments and targets. Teachers have policies, procedures and regulations to adhere to and within organisations will have to take into consideration budgets and resources.

Describe the central focus and purpose of the content you will teach in the learning segment.

In schools teachers are required to complete long, medium and short term planning this means that it could be planning for the entire year, the term or the week. The long term planning provides a summary of the subject content. A medium term plan shows an overview of the activities and topics example pirates. Short term shows detail such as learning aims, activities, resources, differentiation, staffing, and timescale. Usually a teaching assistant will be asked to help with the short term planning of learning activities this maybe the short term planning. Everybody attending the class such as the teacher, teaching assistant and students should know the lesson objectives which will be

This essay is to demonstrate that I understand my own roles and responsibilities in lifelong learning.

3. Include a feedback form, comments, and suggestions to improve my performance and teaching strategies.

1, Explain what your main role & responsibilities are as a teacher/trainer in Education and Training (1.1)

1 Describe what your role, responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher in terms of the teaching training cycle.

4a. Reflecting on Teaching – You submitted the framework rubric, highlighted, indicating where you believe you fall in each of the domain components. More specifically, you included hand written notes for each of your selections to support your choices. Your notes included information on how your learning outcomes were individualized for an ELL student in your classroom, how you referenced the unit essential question to develop conceptual understanding of the unit, and how you modified your summarizing activity at the end of the lesson, and that was only a few of the comments recorded on the paperwork you turned in. In addition, during the post-observation, you provided a thoughtful and accurate assessment of the lesson’s effectiveness,

Teaching demands a lot of creativity and being able to adapt to different situations and environments. However, in order to experience lasting success, more than pot luck, charisma and spontaneity are required. Planning is essential. Planning and preparation gives a certain level of confidence. Whether it is a single lesson or a whole course, planning allows you to design the learning journey you wish to take your students on. In designing, you can make sure that you are catering for all your learners’ needs. This includes sufficient differentiation; for SEN needs as well as your gifted and talented students. In planning you can ensure that your lessons have a definite beginning, middle and end and have clear aims and targets. At this stage you will also prepare and plan resources. Also, you must plan your assessments. How will you know when the students have learned what you set out to teach? How will they know? How are you going to prove that learning has taken place at the end of the course? All these points will be addressed in the planning stage of the teacher training cycle.

3. Did you pass the lesson to another person? Was it successful? How do you know?

Writing the teaching objectives and the learning outcomes, what the pupils will be able to do at the end of the lesson.

To assist the preparation for the teaching session I used one of Jones (2016b) recommended session plan (Appendix 1).

Session one makes use of psychomotor and cognitive learning with reference to the affective domain, where learners will understand, Comprehension and uses their perceptual abilities. Demonstrate a skill, e.g. areas for use are reading, handwriting. (Reece & Walker (2000) suggest the planning of a cognitive lesson where the emphasis is on ‘understanding', student activities should be delivered in building blocks of information, (blocks of fifteen minutes), this is the analysis behind the session plans.

2. Provide a written summary of the teaching / learning interaction. Include in your summary:

2. How did you organize (p. 117) your lesson in terms of content, time, and activities?