Focus Area 1.2: Understand how students learn
Structure teaching programs using research and collegial advice about how students learn
During my time teaching professionally, learning and coaching experiences, including reflecting on my own learning, I have learnt that students are always learning and finding out ways that help them learn best. To reach this standard, I have engaged in several online professional learning courses on Plink, such as Communicating in the 21st Century Classroom and Neuroscience of learning. These courses allowed me to understand ways students learning in 21st century learning environments using ICT and collaborative strategies such as smaller group work, the language, and how to ignite collaborative discussions which promote critical thinking and student engagement.
I have been extremely fortunate that I work with a cohort of individuals who provide me with ample information which help me gain understanding on how students at my site learn best. Due to never having experience in this school prior to my contract, at the start of the year I found connecting with other members of staff in the school allowed me to gain better understanding of how students learn best and where their levels and skills are currently at. For students who have an ILP or one plan, I found that working closely with other teachers and support staff who have worked with these students were able to give me strategies, ideas and information on how I can cater for these students. These conversations allowed me to write down notes, on activities that I could trial with students, what has worked previously, what they have observed on particular students and how I could build better relationships with the students, to explore how they learn best myself. Communicating with parents over seesaw, in the school yard or at events and in parent-teacher interviews also allowed me to gain further insight and improve my knowledge on how each student learns effectively.
To understand how each individual student learns best, I created a task on seesaw asking students how they learn best and how they each feel about different subjects or ways to work. This allowed me to get a personal touch on how each student thinks they learn best, their strengths and weaknesses and how they might like their learning tasks structured.
I have been extremely fortunate that I work with a cohort of individuals who provide me with ample information which help me gain understanding on how students at my site learn best. Due to never having experience in this school prior to my contract, at the start of the year I found connecting with other members of staff in the school allowed me to gain better understanding of how students learn best and where their levels and skills are currently at. For students who have an ILP or one plan, I found that working closely with other teachers and support staff who have worked with these students were able to give me strategies, ideas and information on how I can cater for these students. These conversations allowed me to write down notes, on activities that I could trial with students, what has worked previously, what they have observed on particular students and how I could build better relationships with the students, to explore how they learn best myself. Communicating with parents over seesaw, in the school yard or at events and in parent-teacher interviews also allowed me to gain further insight and improve my knowledge on how each student learns effectively.
To understand how each individual student learns best, I created a task on seesaw asking students how they learn best and how they each feel about different subjects or ways to work. This allowed me to get a personal touch on how each student thinks they learn best, their strengths and weaknesses and how they might like their learning tasks structured.
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