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Focus area 4.1 Support student participation.

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Focus area 4.1 Support student participation.

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Identify strategies to support inclusive student participation and engagement in classroom activities.

For assessment 1, I included an assessment for a gifted student, to engage them further in their learning.

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Focus area 3.7 Engage parents/carers in the educative process.

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Focus area 3.7 Engage parents/carers in the educative process.

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Describe a broad range of strategies for involving parents/carers in the educative process.

Using a flipped classroom strategy whereby the parents watch a movie 'Hidden Figures' with their children. Then as a class, the movie is to be evaluated and key issues raised. Letter attached.

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3.6 Evaluate and improve teaching programs

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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.

The feedback I received from assignment one regarding my lesson plans I will take on board to improve student learning.

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Focus area 2.3 Content selection and organisation.

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Focus area 2.3 Content selection and organisation.

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Organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence.

Assessment 1 is a three-lesson plan designed sequentially for students to learn and understand issues around information technology. The students are to design their own ergonomic home office, using what they learn in the three lessons.

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Organise content into an effective learning and teaching sequence.

Assessment one: Curriculum and general capabilities set out for each of the three lessons.

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Demonstrate knowledge of practical approaches to manage challenging behaviour.
Hurdle task One scenario 7 of Rebecca. The quality of Rebecca’s work suggests she is a very capable student, perhaps gifted, but she doesn’t seem interested by anything in the curriculum and produces the barest minimum to pass. She is an expert in passive resistance. Even more worrying is that she has very strong leadership potential and you suspect that she is at the centre of some rather nasty episodes of bullying and the theft of a teacher’s mobile phone.

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Focus area 4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically.

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Focus area 4.5 Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically.

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Demonstrate an understanding of the relevant issues and the strategies available to support the safe, responsible and ethical use of ICT in learning and teaching.

Assessment 1 designed around the ergonomic principles. It also addressed the social, legal and ethical issues around ICT, how students can be good digital citizens.

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Focus area 3.4 Select and use resources.

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Focus area 3.4 Select and use resources.

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Demonstrate knowledge of a range of resources, including ICT, that engage students in their learning.

Powerpoint created for Assessment 1, was designed for direct instruction to the students. It would be displayed on an interactive whiteboard or projector depending on the technology available at the school.

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Describe strategies that support students’ wellbeing and safety working within a school and/or system, curriculum and legislative requirements.

For assessment two:  Essay two I had a eureka moment for classroom management, I developed my classroom rules and procedures for classroom management and also classroom safety.

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Focus area 3.7 Engage parents/carers in the educative process.

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Focus area 3.7 Engage parents/carers in the educative process.

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Describe a broad range of strategies for involving parents/carers in the educative process.

In Hurdle Task 1 I had scenario 7. Parents were consulted to see if any issues in the home environment were impacting the student.

Also in Assessment 2, the Shy student was the scenario. The parents would also be consulted here to determine what might be stopping the student in engaging with their peers.

In Assessment 1, parents were sent home a letter regarding acceptable computer use. Letter attached.

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Focus Area 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area

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Focus Area 2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area

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Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the concepts, substance and structure of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area.

Assessment 1: Covered the KLA of information technology. A three-lesson plan on the social, legal, ethical and industrial issues of information technology for digital native students that require these skills to enter the information knowledge society.

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Assessment one Effective teaching no appendix finall

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Focus area 4.2 Manage classroom activities.

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Focus area 4.2 Manage classroom activities.

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Demonstrate the capacity to organise classroom activities and provide clear directions.

Assessment two this semester required a 1000 essay on Classroom management. My eureka moment happened by progressing through the learning pit and developing my classroom management rules and procedures as influenced by at least three theoretical approaches.

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Athena Tzigeras critical reflection assessment 2 Final

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Focus area 2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

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Focus area 2.6 Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

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Implement teaching strategies for using ICT to expand curriculum learning opportunities for students.

My assessment 1 was based on the social, ethical, industrial and legal issues of ICT. Please see 2.1 where I have attached my assessment.

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Focus area 4.1 Support student participation.

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Focus area 4.1 Support student participation.

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Identify strategies to support inclusive student participation and engagement in classroom activities.

For assessment 1, I had another assessment for international students, that of a cloze passage.