Pedagogy.
The role of teachers is to inspire, motivate and direct the highest standard of learning from their students. Using a wide range of teaching strategies, teachers are able to adapt teaching methods to the specific demands of the context in which students are being taught, enabling them to maintain a flexible approach to teaching, and being confident that they possess (and continue to develop) a range of teaching strategies to suit any teaching demand. Teachers understand how students learn, and are able to implement appropriate strategies to facilitate effective learning. Effective teachers are able to employ their own judgment concerning the use of specific strategies, and actively evaluate their ongoing success in meeting the needs and capacities of their students. They are able to make explicit to their students the learning objectives (as outlined in the curriculum), outcomes, how these can be achieved, and the assessment procedure by which they will be determined.
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| In past positions within the hospitality and retail industries, it has been my responsibility to ensure that staff procedures are as practical, productive and safe as possible. This has required me to be aware of the needs of staff, and to understand how to motivate their best efforts. I have often found that different people need different methods of encouragement, and have varying levels of independent work skills which play an important role in achieving the best from them. |  |
Task 2: EPT 107. Assignment 2.
Sharnie Hurford
33 Mcmenamin Pl
Kelso, 2870, NSW
Dear Mum
I just wanted to let you know how things were going, since you were so interested in how the new integrated curriculum would affect my teaching at the school. Remember I wrote that it would mean integrating all components of teaching into a flexible structure to allow students to move across disciplines and KLA's as they learn about their world? The result has been a shift in curriculum focus to a more outcomes based one that is more 'understanding driven' (i.e. the ultimate goal of teaching and learning has become more relevant to what students' will need to know in terms of the world we live in.
Teaching strategies are more focused on a model of inquiry learning, and helping student's acquire the skills they need to be able to learn for themselves (i.e. research skills), as well as the knowledge we want them to learn from us. We want to teach children to be active participants in their own aquisition of learning.
For me personally, it has meant that my team-teacher Jackie (who teaches my class with me on a job-share typed basis) have been able to structure our lessons flexibly to cater to our particular teaching strengths, and allow us to give students the best possible teaching. We have structured a unit on environmental education at the moment which is focused on waterways, and covers a number of KLA's while still meeting the compulsory outcomes for each KLA required by the Board of Studies. Our different abilities complement each other with regards to the development of an integrated teaching curriculum, and increase our effectiveness and 'expertness' as teachers. I cover most of the English/HSIE and Science KLA's, while Jackie teaches the Maths/IT KLA's, and the students are performing well under the new curriculum.
Anyway, enough about me, mum, I hope all is well at home. Is dad still tampering with your garden? I love you both, and will make sure I visit for christmas, I promise!
Love always
you darling daughter Sharnie.