Demonstrate the capacity to organise classroom activities and provide clear directions.
Standard 4.2
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"Rebecca plans lesson with detail, accommodating the different learning styles and capabilities of this group of students. She uses a variety of resources to maintain student interest and provides oral and written feedback to students to educate and motivate".
Mentor Teacher
Mentor Teacher
Here are some of the activities I have participated in whilst at Prince Alfred College:
- Unit of Inquiry - Ripples in the Pond: All living things depend on their environment for survival - research and powerpoint presentations
- Unit of Inquiry: Celebrations - modelled reading, brainstorming, viewing documentaries
- Time - analogue and digital
- Writing - reports on different types of animals
- Me as a Learner - students were required to answer questions about their learning for their student-led conferences
- Multiplication word problems
- Spelling - digraphs 'air', 'are' and 'ear'
- Spelling - working with learning support students
- Comprehension - working with differentiated groups, comprehension strategies
- Literacy circles
- Read alouds
- Group reading - fluency, comprehension and expression
- Volume and Capacity - estimate, measure, compare and record volume and capacity, using learning stations
- Mass - sort and classify objects by mass using grams and kilograms
- Number facts - whole number multiplication
- Maths mentals
- Maths interactive games
- Friendly Schools & Family Program - Friendships and Groups - cool images and friendships
- Expositions - explore structure, plan, write and edit
- ICT - TypeQuick, GoogleSketchup, Mathletics, Studdyladder, StripBits etc.
- Sports reports
- Poetry writing - haiku, cinquains and diamantes
- Grammar - enriching sentences using explicit verbs and adverbs
- Maths activities - modular houses, crazy animals, tessellations, 3D shapes, fractions
- Unit of Inquiry: To Buy or Not to Buy? - talked about junk food advertising
- ICT - computer programs, video, whiteboard applications
- Video - after students had written their advertising scripts I recorded their commercials
- Graphs - pie graph, column graph, line graph
- Frequency tables - used examples that were relevant to the students
- Procedural text - How to tie a tie and How to make chocolate crackles
- Recount - of our trip to SAFM
- Library visits
- How to write paragraphs
- Persuasive text - linked to the unit of inquiry
- Circle time
- Morning meetings
- Buddies - growing trees, making 'reslience rockets'
- Choral poetry and dance
- Science - How to make a bubbling lava lamp
- Ten minute maths quiz
- Mapping skills - Identifying coordinates on the Adelaide Easter Show Map
- Guiding appropriate behaviour in Chapel