SECONDARY SCHOOL PLACEMENT

Expected Personal Outcomes

Goal

Actions you will take to

work towards the goal

Indicators of
achievement of goal

Goal 1:

Focus Area 1.2:

Understand how students learn

Focus Area 1.2:

- Build notes during observations
of effective teaching and learning
strategies used in the classroom.
- Implement these strategies in
my lesson plans.

Focus Area 1.3:

Students with diverse linguistic,
cultural, religious and
socioeconomic backgrounds

Focus Area 1.3:

- Develop an understanding of
effective teaching strategies to
teach diverse students and
implement these in lesson plans.
- Include the students culture in
learning activities, and encourage
them to explore their values in
education.
Focus Area 3.5:
- Outline in lesson plans the
language, gestures, and visuals I
will use in lessons to ensure all
students understand instructions.
- Reflect on my development of
non-verbal forms of
communication such as teacher
presence and student
engagement.

Standard 1
Know students and how they
learn

Goal 2:
Standard 3

Focus Area 3.5:

Use effective classroom
communication

Plan for and implement effective

teaching and learning

Focus Area 3.6:

Evaluate and improve teaching
programs

Goal 3:
Standard 5

Focus Area 5.3:

Make consistent and comparable
judgments

Assess, provide feedback and

report on student learning

Focus Area 5.4:

Interpret student data

Focus Area 3.6:

- In reflections, I will evaluate my
teaching of that lesson, and
outline areas where improvement
can be made.
- Request my associate teacher to
recommend areas where I may
need to improve, and offer
strategies to assist me.
Implement these strategies and
ideas in my following lesson.
Focus Area 5.3:
- Produces assessment plans,
tasks, and/ or rubrics that make
moderations for particular
students and/ or circumstances.
- When marking student work,
make notes for myself regarding
similarities and differences
between students work. Outline
the reasons why students marks
may differ from one another. Give
students appropriate feedback
based on this evaluation.
Focus Area 5.4:
- Plan lessons and learning
activities based on the evidence

Goal 4:
Standard 7

Focus Area 7.1:

Meet professional ethics and
responsibilities

Engage professionally with

colleagues, parents/ carers and
the community

Focus Area 7.4:

Engage with professional teaching
networks and broader
communities

gathered from assessment tasks.

- When marking students work,
write notes about their strengths
and weaknesses, and note
content or topics where the class
may need further educating.
Focus Area 7.1:
- Communicate effectively and
interact professionally with
colleagues by attending staff
meetings and participating in
professional discussions.
- Obtain information, and
implement relevant codes of
ethics that underpin educational
and cultural context.
Focus Area 7.4:
- Participate with school staff in
professional and community
programs. - Use this knowledge
and experience in future teaching
and lessons.

Other aims you may have for the professional experience :

-

Develop my teacher voice.

Develop an understanding of how to educate students from a diverse cultural background.

Develop an understanding of how to integrate various students cultures into a classroom/ lesson.