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


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