Practical Placement Reflection of Lessons
Lesson Type What worked well
English: Spelling - The children completed their
and conjunctions spelling words quickly and I
(pre-test/ writing a was able to manage 3 spelling
meaning lists for the different groups.
- Was able to get the students
to create their own meanings
of the spelling words and
have a brief discussion after
about different meanings,
consolidating the list words
for the students.
Measurement: - Collaborative group work in
Orienteering creating the orienteering
course, I facilitated and
guided students in use of
directional language to create
instructions for the course.
- Sharing of roles in
undertaking the orienteering
course, when prompted
students saw the benefits of
sharing the different roles and
I was able to observe
strengths and areas for
improvement for different
students
English; Dialogue - Involved activity of student on
and Synonyms of the board to review the
Said feature of dialogue
- Moved well around the
classroom to monitor students
progress and assist the
development of dialogue
English: Review of - Transition from last activity to
Conjunctions and set up and instruction of the
associated lesson (pack up and get out
worksheet your English books to start
the activity)
- Discussion to activate prior
knowledge went well and I
spread the student responses
well around the class. Use
positive reinforcement for
student responses
Digital Safety: - Used questioning well to
Digital footprint, activate prior knowledge and
digital citizenship understandings
Even Better if
- For the meanings if I was
able to prepare beforehand
and have a set list and a
dictionary definition to back
up the words and
consolidate the meaning for
the students.
- I managed the time better
for the course, time ran out
and the students were only
able to complete about two
thirds of the course each for
the two groups.
- Students had time to write
out the final instructions
themselves for the following
day for other students to
complete.
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- Spent a few more minutes
discussing ideas for creating
a dialogue from the image
provided for context.
- Have another example of
dialogue in correct format for
student reference
- Some students finished the
activity quickly and at first I
moved around and looked at
the work marking, then,
numbers built up of finished
students. I didnt handle this
the best and could have
bought the group back to the
front of the class and got
students to swap the work
and consolidate the lesson
before we were cut short by
and assembly.
- The explanation of the
lesson could have been done
better with various questions
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test, class - Good preparation of resources
discussion for the lesson so everything
was ready to go,
English: Reading - Good instructions to start and
and comprehension transition to the lesson,
of The Cow by students used visual
Roald Dahl representation well as a
reference.
- Good use of paper to answer
questions and think, the share
about what students answers
were
being raised, clarified with
students but would have
been better if I brought the
whole class back together to
clarify.
- In undertaking discussion of
the test answers class
started to get unruly
because I had not prepared
short precise answers from
resources, would have been
better if I did this and thus
ended the activity prompt;ly
- Some students started to be
a bit disruptive and I squared
off and stopped the
behaviour, continued a bit,
could have been better if I
go students to swap seats of
students to stop the
behaviour.
- Visual representation was
used well at the start of the
lesson, better preparation of
this resource could have
made the lesson better if I
had mapped out the
activities in order to help
myself sequence the lesson.