School experience Flashcards
What classroom experience do you have?
I have been a TA for the past year - so a lot! I have experience of doing interventions, working in small groups, communicating with children, working as a team with children, teaching maths lessons, being in charge and responsible of children
I also have experience of using google classrooms and remote learning - which I think is important because of the past year - never know what is going to happen
What have you learnt from your experience in schools?
Children should be moving - they get bored easily at this age and can’t sit still for long. Have a wake and shake lesson which wakes up the brain and reduces fidgeting
All children are unique - learn something different everyday, what works for one won’t work for the other
Sometimes lessons won’t always go to plan and that is okay - you can’t always follow a weekly structure / plan as sometimes things can happen
Give an example of a successful and not so successful lesson you observed during a school visit or have taught. Why was it successful / not so successful?
Successful - the castle English lesson the other day, it was successful because it was something the children were interested in and had ability to be creative, which is what children love
Not so successful - maths is tricky when on a time limit. sometimes I feel like we don’t have enough time to properly go over materials needed as maths is a hard subject to teach, need lots of time
Tell us about a time when you helped a child in the classroom. Were you effective and if so, why do you think this was?
The other day I was helping a child who has suspected dyslexia in year 1. She kept putting dots in between her writing and we were never sure why. I sat with her and helped her to write a sentence and discovered that she thought finger spaces were full stops - hence the dots. I was effective because I got to the bottom of the problem (not that it was a huge issue - but no one had explained to her what a finger space was) and since then she hasn’t done it!!
What contributions could you make outside your preferred subject area or age range?
Extracirruler activities for all children
such as cooking, baking, Zumba classes
I would be keen to get a PE qualification
Mental health is very close to my heart - would like to be the well being ambassador at some point for the whole school. Things like Zumba and baking after school - could maybe run an after school club which was called well being day
Have you used technology in the classroom?
iPads for e books - then they can read them at home
Interactive whiteboard - come up and answer questions
What would you do if a parent was upset about a child’s result?
Offer to meet with the parent, providing supporting evidence of the lessons the child received in preparation for the assessment. I would then ask the parent to help me brainstorm ways that might help their child to perform better.
For example. This happened with spellings once in class and the teacher gave the parent strategies to do and it turned out the parent wasn’t really practising
