Teacher Placement of Year 3s Portfolio

Portfolio

This assignment is based on my seven week placement in a year 3 class in East London.

Critical Incident 1

During one of my first maths lesson in the school, I was working with the higher ability children. At this point I had not seen the teachers plan for this lesson or the term. The lesson was on subtraction using tricky columns. The school uses the Maths Makes Sense scheme, it was the first time I had seen this scheme being used. The scheme follows strict wording which needs to be used throughout the children’s learning. I did not fully understand or did I know the exacting wording that had to be used. So when I was asked by one of the children so help them, I felt very uncomfortably and struggled to an extent to explain to her how to complete to sum. Even though I knew the method they were using it was the wording to go with the method that I couldn’t explain to her. The Maths Makes Sense method use the word cups for units and tys for tens and doesn’t use the word borrowing which would have been the way I had learned.

Critical Incident 2

In my second week of placement, the classroom teacher told me and another trainee that she would be out of the classroom for 10 mins after lunch and we had to bring the class in and get them settle for a maths lesson. This was the first time we had been left in the class by ourselves in this placement. I knew the lesson for maths and the power point was up on the computer. After 10 mins the teacher had not returned so we decided to get the class started on the lesson. The teacher was out of the class for 40 mins and by the time she had come back we had a majority of the lesson given and she had only a small bit left to do. During this time I was very nervous as it was my first whole ...

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Reference List

Arthur, J., Cremin, T., (2010) Learning to Teach in the Primary School 2nd Edition, Routledge, The Open University

Department of Education (DoE) (2011) Reducing bureaucracy in schools: Lesson planning Available at: http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/toolsandinitiatives/cuttingburdens/b0075738/reducing-bureaucracy/planning (Accessed: 8th December 2013)

Graham, G., (2008) Teaching Children Physical Education: Becoming a Master Teacher 3rd Edition

Superfine, A.C., (2008) ‘Planning for Mathematics Instruction: A Modal of Experienced Teachers’ Planning Process in the Context of Reform Mathematics’ Mathematics Educator, pp 11-22

Tripp, D., (2012) Critical Incidents in Teaching: Developing Professional Judgement Routledge

U1303750 (2013) UEL Reflective Journal, University of East London