Unit 44- M1&D1

Tollgate Primary School
My contribution in the classroom is to help guide the children into understanding and learning throughout their time at school within groups of six. I have taken part in many activities in the classroom with the children such as literacy where I help guide the children into developing ideas and imaginative story lines. The source I use to help support the children within the classroom is whiteboards because this gives the children a clear understanding of examples of what is expected in their books and help within the spelling area. The whiteboard interactive learning influenced brilliant success in the activity because the children gained knowledge and understanding of what was expected and met all learning criteria of the day. These also gave me time to bond with each child and understand each child’s way of learning and strategies to help them.
My strengths within the activity was being able to communicate well the children and also using my interpersonal skills to develop ideas. I also believe that I managed to build a closer bond with the children. My weakness was not being able to get around to all six children making sure that they are focused and understand what they were meant to be doing. Another weakness would be not using the classroom environment and existing scaffolds to help support the children.
I think there can be some improvements such as the sources used to develop children’s learning. I think using different types of sources can make the activity more interesting and fun within the children’s learning and help gain all the children to interact more during group discussions. I also believe that it is important for me to balance time with each child who needs support which can help me manage to get around other children in the classroom who may also need some support and encouragement in their work.
To help me focus on my improvements I have set some personal goals and targets which I think I can achieve by the end of placement.