TS8 report form

This section of my PP2 report form highlights my contribution to the wider life of the school environment whilst on placement. I attended numerous school trips planned in different year groups, including the Year 6 two night residential, communicated effectively with parents, including through parents’ evening and through written dialogue, and engaged positively in staff meetings and CPD INSETs. I always tried to incorporate the advice and targets given to me from observations into my practice in order to positively impact on the children’s experiences and progress. I positively collaborated with my teaching assistant to enable identified groups of children to make further progress in their learning and developed positive relationships with all school staff.

TS6 report form

Taken from my PP2 final report form, this extract shows my mentor’s feedback in regards to my assessment methods. Throughout this placement I used the Lancashire KLIPS to assess children and monitor their progress. From this, I was able to effectively implement interventions for reading, writing and maths in the run-up to SATs to directly impact on lower attaining children’s progression. Monitoring each child’s progress closely also enabled me to accurately plan each of my lessons to positively build on the current level of understanding and knowledge held by each child.

TS4 report form

This extract from my PP2 report form highlights the progress noted by my mentor, and headteacher, in regards to TS4. He often commented on my effective questioning and counter-questioning to encourage an in-depth understanding from all children during my lessons. I also found that this use of questioning during lessons enabled me to effectively identify and resolve misconceptions that had been formed.

The implementation of feedback and targets given from observations allowed me to greatly improve my teaching and effectively enhanced the children’s learning that took place during my time at this school. My target for this standard of contributing to curriculum planning was decided upon due to the limited opportunities for this to happen in this particular setting due to the use of schemes. However, as commented on by the headteacher, I ensured that I delivered the curriculum content in a creative and effective way to enable the children to enjoy their learning whilst making clear progress in their understanding. This is an element of teaching that will contribute to allowing me to achieve this target in my future practice.

TS3 report form

The extract above was taken from my professional practice 2 end report form. My mentor states that in regards to TS3 I consistently demonstrated a good subject knowledge and used the appropriate vocabulary for the ability of the children within the class; this was not only in my specialism subject of English, but throughout my teaching. The headteacher identified my engagement in staff meetings and CPD INSETs as well as my clear implementation of whole school policies throughout my practice.

Following the school’s marking policy enabled me to provide children with a celebratory comment in regards to how they met, or almost met the learning objective for that lesson and a target or a challenge for them to either include in their work next time or for them to complete or amend before the next lesson. I found that this system worked well and that all children were keen to make the amendments identified in order to improve their own knowledge and understanding. I also tried to provide children with verbal feedback in regards to the lesson content during the session as I found this often had a greater impact on the children’s learning.

My target of developing my knowledge and understanding of the principles and practices of teaching PE was identified as I was unable to teach PE during professional practice 2 due to the school having bought in  a specialised PE coach. However, I did have multiple opportunities to assist the coaches in their lessons, become familiar with their tracking and assessment system and engage with their planning system. This has allowed me to gain a range of ideas in regards to teaching and assessing progress in PE.

TS2 report form

This extract was taken from my end of professional practice report form for PP2. My mentor states that I am acutely aware of all children’s attainment within the class which enables me to effectively plan learning activities to help the children make good progress in their knowledge and understanding. My own personal reflection throughout practice enabled me to consider the methods of teaching which were most beneficial to each individual child and consequently provided me with the means to adapt my own teaching to meet the strengths and needs of all.

I strongly believe that collaborative activities can enable children to progress in their learning more effectively than being limited to their own personal views and ideas. My target of continuing to regularly create opportunities for independent and autonomous learning arose through the identification of the level of scaffolding provided to some children perhaps unnecessarily in some instances. However, I do still believe that a good combination of both collaborative and independent learning opportunities need to be provided to all children.