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Professional Standard 2.5: Literacy and numeracy strategies

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Professional Standard 2.5: Literacy and numeracy strategies

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Know and understand literacy and numeracy teaching strategies and their application in teaching areas.
Following points were included in the lesson plan:

·      Definitions were read by teacher first then students needed to read along from slides.

·      Activity sheet was given to students to fill as per the sequence of new vocabulary words.

·      Ideas and new words were communicated by students during clue card activity and group discussions.

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Professional Standard 3.1: Establishing Challenging Learning goals.

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Professional Standard 3.1: Establishing Challenging Learning goals.

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Set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for students of varying abilities and characteristics.

In lesson plan assignment, all the lesson plans include a learning intention, success criteria. Both are discussed at the beginning of the lecture.

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Professional Standards  3.4 & 4.1:  Select and use resources, Support student participation

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Professional Standards  3.4 & 4.1:  Select and use resources, Support student participation

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Demonstrate knowledge of a range of resources, including ICT, that engage students in their learning and strategies to support inclusive student participation and engagement in classroom activities.

For teaching year 8 students about different businesses, content related video is shown during the class to engage students in learning.

Think-Pair -Share activity and group discussions and interactions were included for students’ independent and collaborative learning as these activities helped them to listen attentively, participate and work effectively in their groups.

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 Professional Standard 3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs

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 Professional Standard 3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs

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Demonstrate broad knowledge of strategies that can be used to evaluate teaching programs to improve student learning.
As per Killen, for an effective teacher, it is important to be critically reflective, so,

in lesson plan assignment, I have focused on improving my teaching by self-evaluation technique and taking feedback from students after the lecture. I have given last 5 minutes of my all lectures for taking feedback from students and after that reflecting on my own teaching.

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 Professional Standard 3.3: Use teaching strategies

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 Professional Standard 3.3: Use teaching strategies

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As the chosen topics were new for the students’ understanding, Direct instruction strategy was used to teach them.
Although my lesson plan was based on direct instruction, but i included a range of teaching strategies in my lesson plans which were group discussion, previewing, metacognitive strategies in the form of making business plan and think- pair-share activity.

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 Professional Standard 3.2: Plan, structure, and sequence learning programs.

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 Professional Standard 3.2: Plan, structure, and sequence learning programs.

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Plan lesson sequences using knowledge of student learning, content, and effective teaching strategies.
In lesson planning assessment task, I made 3 lesson plans on year 8 business and economics, which includes a sequence of topics as per the Australian curriculum and at present level, I had a good understanding of designing lesson plan as per the curriculum as demonstrated in my grades.