EPC 2903

Teaching Practice Booklet

Overview
Teaching Practicum, Year 2, Semester 2
Practicum Focus:
The teaching of the Reading and Literacy
development
Length of Placement:
Total days in school:

3 weeks

15

Main aim of the practicum:

A core focus of this semesters course will be the detailed observations of children,
teachers in English medium classrooms.
The focus is literacy and reading and students are required to observe literacy
and language in the classroom.

Observations/Interview Tasks
Task 1

Diagnostic Assessment Interview

Task 2

Managing Learning

Task 3

Literacy Strategies

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Teaching sessions:
4 - 6 lessons In consultation with the MST (Mentoring School Teacher)
students will teach, plan and evaluate a minimum of four small group/whole class
sessions focusing on Reading if possible. Students can focus on Phonics, Guided
Reading and Shared Reading (using big books) and follow these with relevant
response activities. It is important to try to teacher 1 Science and 1 Math lesson
during the practicum also.
Date
Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Number of Days
Meet the teachers and school orientation
Teaching Reading in small groups
Teach 1 Math/Science Lesson
Observation Tasks
Reflections/Journals
Teaching Reading in small groups
Teach 1 Math/Science Lesson
Observation Tasks
Reflections/Journals
Teaching Reading in small groups
Teach whole class phonics
Teach 1 Math/Science Lesson
Observation Tasks
Reflections/Journals

e-Portfolio:

You will need to have an e-portfolio website in which to keep:

Minimum of 4x lesson plans and evaluations; (teach 1 Math and 1 Science if
possible)
teaching resources;
3x tasks and reflections
labeled artifacts (minimum of 7 some of these could be related to Writing)
Personal teaching philosophy
Professional Development Plan (PDP)
Professional development Log
Evidence of Classroom Management Strategies observed and used

This folder is to be kept up to date so your MCT can view it anytime. Your MCT will also
ask to see this after teaching practice.

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The contents of this portfolio will be used by your MCT to complete your final report. It
will be given a separate grade and you will use it as a resource for follow up activities
when you return from TP.

What do I need to do for this TP?

Teach, plan and evaluate a minimum of four small group/whole class sessions focusing
on Reading if possible.
Teach 1 Science and 1 Math Lesson

Planning for lessons:

Your lesson plans need to be written up in detail at least 24hrs in advance of the lessons
given.
MSTs will be asked to sign and date the plans. You will also need to show these to your
MCT when she visits for her to sign and date.
Please provide a copy of your lesson plan for your MCT when she visits you.
Lessons plans need to be typed and presented professionally using the template
provided.

Reflections
Lesson reflections are to be written soon after the lesson has been taught, that is at the
end of the day after class was delivered. Make these specific to the lesson.
You will also reflect on each of the Practicum tasks. Please see the task description for
more details.

Note: Evaluations, Tasks, and Reflections will regularly be

submitted during TP

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PDP Professional Development Plan (1)

Goal 1
(specific and
measurable)

Rationale/Refl
ection of
previous
practice (what
led to this
goal?

1-Improve my English language and my writing.

2- learn new teaching method.
3- learn to deal with kids in school.
4- learn how to planning lessons and managing
behaviors in class.
From this goals, I will note improvement in different
skills like leadership, communication, organization
and solving problems. No doubt that I will face
various challenges in class with kids so, I will try to
improve myself thought that. Also, that help me to
transact with special need kids in class.

Strategies
(include
resources
needed)

Read articles about teaching KG. Ask my MST what

her strategies in class and told me a brief
introduction about each child that help me to
remember them. Observed more than class in KG and
see how each teacher deal with her kids in class what
kinds of activities they work in Watch videos on
YouTube that give us advice in teaching. Ask my
teacher Assistant some events or issues that happen
in school and how they deal with that.
Evidence of Progress towards goal
Issues
Preparing activities every morning.
Always busy so I havent time
Get instruction from my MST and did to rest and organizes my ideas.
what she want.
In the first week I feel tired
Writing notes and journals to
because that first time to me I
practice for writing.
observe the teacher works all
Recording my MST when she
the time, she teaches, cleans,
explains to kids and analyzes videos
cutting papers, mentoring
at the end of the day.
children most of the time and
Read the Teacher's Guide books.
solve their problems. Take care
of them when they play and
eat.
Outcome
Prepare funny and crazy activities because the kids in
New or
school have an Imagination. By talking with them, we
modified goal
can generate innovative ideas. Moreover, sharing my
(s)
works with other teachers because of it a helpful
thing that teacher have to do it and teach it to kids.
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After the Task - Reflection

Reflect upon your progress towards your goals.
The goals are very significant. It a points you write down on paper. In this notebook write, what do you
need to develop yourself? You will feel success and confidence if you achieve your goals so, in each
semester I observed that I need to improve my language. I have to write my goal and work to achieve
this goal do not write it and leave it. By reading and writing, I will improve myself in teaching practice
by talking with school stuff and ask them if I need any help.

I achieved my goal that from last semester when my MCT told me to improve my voice. I went to the
musical teacher, and she showed me how to changes sound depend on the characters in the story. Now
I can make my sound load or soft.

I document my MST planning and teaching method to keep it in my mind and do like her when I trach
children. Also, I planning my lesson then I ask my MST to edit and fix it. Because if I ask her, I will
know my mistakes and avoid it in next time. I learn how my MST deal with knotty and noisy boys in
class and playground they fighting with other children and do not sharing games with other, in first
time my MST talk with them. However, in next day they do the same thing my MST ask their teacher
to consequences them. Also, they do not listen to my MST interaction, finally, my MST talked the
child to her class when they finished playing in the playground, and she did not allow to eat his lunch
in his class. He ate his lunch alone in my MST class; the boy starts crying, and he feels that he made
bad things in the playground. So MST left him until the end of crying and eating. Then she starts
talking with the boy gently and tenderness, think if you made a bad think outside and did you think
your parents will be happy this behave? From observed my MST I learned how I could consequence
hostile boys in school and give them time correct behavior.

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PDP Professional Development Plan (2)

Take some time to read through your MST/MCT report from last semester. Highlight (or take notes) on
comments which identify points of development. Choose one or two which you feel were particularly important
and wrote them in the table. Then decide which competency it is, what you want to achieve in this area this
semester and finally note how you will achieve this.
MCT/ MST
recommendation
Competency

Focus on my voice because my voice was soft and I have to read the story in
different levels of speech.
Improve my pronounce and sound.

Goal

Practice with my voice by singing a different type of song.

Action Points

MCT/ MST
recommendation

Asked many open ended questions

Positive student encouragement
Try to get all students to participate

Use beautiful song and sing with kids. Be more active with them that mean acted
like children when they dance and sing. Do not focus on one side when I explain to
children. Move faster to do not waste the time of class.

Competency
Goal

Action Points

Be more active and dancing with children.

Watch kids programs and take ideas how they play and talk with children like the
HI5 program.

Good encouragement of student participation through use of reward

Fairly good use of predictive questioning
Relatively good classroom management
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Good intonation and rhythmic reading-singing

During-Reading: good revisit of counting

After the Task - Reflection

Reflect upon your progress towards your goals.
To move in the direction of your goals you need perseverance, patience, and struggle and do not feel sad if you
fail no because you will feel weakness you have to fix issues and continue. This teaching practice helps me to
achieve my goals, and I met new people show me how to present a quality work and manages kids in outdoor
learning time. In outside time I have to balance between playing and learning that is mean it not allow for
children to damage toys outside or fighting with other.

I found that I improved from last teaching practice because I did new activities and my MST like my ideas in
education. Also, I learned new words through reading stories, talking with others, posters in the corners.
However, I have to focus now on my body language and learn Exercises suitable for children to do it at the
beginning of the class that makes them more vital and forceful in class, so the benefit of that is children will not
feel lazy and sleepy. Furthermore, my MST recommends me to be kinetic in class to take children attention. In
next teaching practice, I will provide an enthusiastic music and ask kids to do gymnastics in class. I have noted
that is an efficient strategy for children and music + sport = creative kids.

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