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I have chosen to complete my 10 hours of volunteering with Gateways Support Services. This organisation gives support to children and adolescents with disabilities. Working with this service I will be involved in fun group activities such a Zumba, music and cooking. I will be working with children with different levels of needs and abilities. I feel working in this environment will help me to better understand and cater to each child's individual needs. This also opens up opportunities for me to socially connect with others and be involved in a group/ team environment.

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Are the tools that enable people to communicate, learn, ask for help, get needs met in appropriate ways, get along with others, make friends, develop healthy relationships, protect themselves.

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How our chosen organisation will help our needs?

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How our chosen organisation will help our needs?

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Volunteering in  aged care centre will help me :
Get to know about a totally different field.
Get to meet new people and create a friendly environment.
Recognise other people's needs.
Caring for others and show empathy

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I will go to community center as my 10 hour workplace. Talk to the group people with different cultural backgrounds. development my social skills.
can support learner`s need

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use theory to practice and learn from other classmates, and help each other
deep thinking of  self
different teaching experience will influence future

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In the future I hope to have the freedom and flexibility to teach children to their individual needs and interests. To gain the social confidence to be myself and speak freely among my peers. Watching the video Most Likely To Succeed (2015) has re-inspired me to be a teacher. The passion of the educators and their ability to take a different approach to the standardized way of teaching, has inspired me to be able to express myself creatively, without the need to stick to a set program. I aim to make learning more exciting and interesting, so children will enjoy their learning experience.

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I completed my 10 hours of volunteering at Fawkner F/C during my time there I was involved in helping set up for training, packing up and help the coach in getting everyone ready for the games while completing the tasks set by the coach I got the opportunity to talk to all the team members and engage with them this allowed me to be more confident in talking with people and increase my social skills.

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As I continue my studies as a pre-service teacher, my understanding of the 'right way to teach' is evolving and I am beginning to be more socially involved with my peers and educators. With the recognition of how the teaching environment and how a child's social and emotional development play such an important role in a child's ability to learn, I am excited to leave my comfort zone and build my teaching identity around student centred learning. Nurturing the social and emotional wellbeing of each child to help them to achieve their highest level of learning.

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Starting this unit I was very shy. I assumed that the teaching curriculum would be learned and taught in a strictly set format, requiring little personal, social interaction between myself and my peers. I believed all students would learn at the same pace and be taught in line with a set educational program, made up of set modules, assessments and tests. With this understanding, I based my teaching identity on time management, book work and to-do lists, to ensure I would be able to teach successfully.

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use self knowledge to stimulate and help student from different culture by making education more interesting.

future will use learning knowledge and practical skills from my volunteer place to help student from different background, understand themselves and each other and learn together.

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Strengths:
supportive,caring,patient,creative, bi-lingual( well, nearly)

Room for improvement:
Need time to fit in with new multi-cultural environment.
Need time to change learning style from memorizing to learning by doing.

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-  My metaphor is keys this is because I want to give students the freedom to go out and explore and be able to open all the doors with the knowledge I provide them also because when students work together they learn even more from each other.

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Now:
- Understand that students learn in different ways and be able to provide different teaching methods to suit everyone.
- Go out of my comfort zone and explore new ideas.
- Connect with the students to be able to understand where they are at.

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Before:
- In the beginning, I was so Excited to start studying teaching its something I have always thought of doing and coming into the first day I felt like I was achieving my dreams.

- I was Scared because I was unsure if I would enjoy the class or subject.

- I was so Passionate about teaching I didn't want to have any negative thoughts to distract me from my main goal as to why I'm here.

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I am gaining knowledge about how children learn in different ways.
How important is to listen to  children's idea and getting to know them individually.
How important is to build that trust with student.
Recognise their interests and be flexible.

Professional need:
- Be more professional when expressing my ideas.
-Build a good relationship with other educators.
Be more open to other people suggestions

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Picture that identified me at the start:

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Picture that identified me at the start:

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-When I started the unit , I was very excited and I had an idea of what kind of teacher I wanted to be.
But I felt  my lacking of knowledge was not letting me go further and I needed a new challenge in my life and this was going back to University.
Personal need:
-Be more confident when sharing my ideas
- Be organised