APPENDIX 1: PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE GOALS
Goal: Indicators/Evidence:
1. Professional Knowledge Goal:
Know learners and how they learn
Focus area 1.5
Differentiate teaching to meet the
specific learning needs of students
across the full range of abilities.
Demonstrate knowledge and
understanding of strategies for
differentiating teaching to meet the
specific learning needs of students
across the full range of abilities.
2. Professional Practice Goal:
Create and maintain supportive and
safe learning environments
Focus area 4.1
Support student participation. Identify
strategies to support inclusive
student participation and
engagement in classroom activities.
Evidence you will have to show you
achieved the goal
1.Provide copy of student
summary sheet of abilities and
learning difficulties.
2.Provide evidence of research
notes on special learning needs
and teaching strategies for
children on the Autism
Spectrum.
3.Provide written evidence of
engagement with any learning
support professionals or
additional teaching resources I
can acknowledge in support of
my practice with students with
diverse needs.
4.Provide written feedback from
my supervising teacher that
reviews lessons I have taught
that specifically addresses the
diversity of learners and areas
of improvement outlined that I
can make.
1. Copy of summary sheet that
describes the learning style for
each student in the class. Taking
into account that some students
will have a combination of
preferred learning styles.
2. Providing copies of lesson
plans that furnish evidence of
planning for engagement for all
students and all learning styles
so as to promote engagement
and accommodate children with
disabilities and special learning
needs and this will include
supervising teacher feedback.
Actions:
Sequenced steps describing the actions
you will take as you work towards achieving
the goal
1. By observation and consultation with
my supervising teacher I will make a
summary of students specific learning
styles and strengths and weaknesses
with particular attention to students
who have special learning needs or
diagnosed disabilities or difficulties.
2. By researching how students with
Autism learn and noting the ways this
will impact specifically on the way I
teach and how this will ultimately have
implications for other students in my
class.
3. By collaborating with my supervising
teacher and learning support staff
when reflecting on lessons I have
taught and making a summary of what
went well and what can be improved to
cater for diverse needs.
1. By observing student engagement
during supervising teachers lessons I
will make a summary of the learning
styles evident in the classroom which I
will use to inform my lesson planning to
cater for visual (spatial), kinaesthetic
(physical), aural (auditory), verbal
(linguistic) learners and try to
incorporate something for each style in
all of my lesson planning. This will also
take into account students with
physical disabilities so as my planning
promotes whole class engagement in
activities.
2. By designing interactive learning
experiences for diverse learners that
allow different learning styles to be
catered for, such as the use of
concrete manipulatives, role-playing,
drawing a scenario that explains a
problem and always making the
content of my lessons relevant for my
students.
3. Enlisting the support of learning
support staff to assist and cater for
children with disability during physical
or out-door activity so as everyone can

3. Professional Engagement Goal: 1. Provide evidence of notes
Engage in professional learning from staff meetings relevant to
6.3 Engage with colleagues and my stage area.
improve practice. Seek and apply 2. Provide evidence of both my,
constructive feedback from and my supervising teachers
supervisors and teachers to improve reflections of regular feedback
teaching practices and noting any other valuable
advice I receive from other
teachers or staff in the form of
notes.
3. By providing any notes or
relevant work-books from any
professional development
workshops I have attended
during my placement that have
been suggested by my
colleagues.
Other aims you may have for the professional experience:
To promote positive communication with and between students, colleagues and staff at all times and to maintain a
professional and enthusiastic approach to my personal professional learning journey.
participate in some form.
1. By attending all staff meetings in
order to get to know other teachers and
support staff in my stage group
2. By requesting regular feedback and
reflection sessions with my supervising
teacher and other teachers and
support staff I have contact with across
the stage.
3. By reviewing any constructive
criticism I receive after lessons I have
taught and being sure to implement
changes to my next lessons that reflect
this critique.
4. By asking colleagues for feedback
on any relevant courses they have
recently attended and found useful that
I can attend as a teacher education
student.