My Professional Portfolio

Looking at my peers beginning preparing for their teaching practice just gets me anxious regarding my own preparation. I had been thinking through what to teach for the past 2 weeks for the next 3 weeks. There and then I was reminded by both Jess and Vicky on the need to prepare a professional portfolio within the 3 weeks professional practice. 

Looking at the amount of workload that is in the next assignment 3 as well as the professional practice, I began to think how am I supposed to organize the teaching and preparation process, to start things early and to get everything into the portfolio on daily basis or probably weekly basis. I thank David for preparing sufficient materials for us on the study desk that we could prepare based on what he wants us to. 

Being with USQ and studying online, we are highly dependent on the study desk, and it was delightful that there is tons of information online that we can just extract at any time of the day. 

Now the big question, where do I find more information regarding ICT rich teaching and lessons. I was thinking of implementing some simple ICT and thinking of it over again, that would actually limit the children's learning and I am sure that they are more capable that the simple use of ICT. So for this weekend and next week, it's gotta be "thinking days"!

What board you use?

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What is a blackboard? or perhaps whiteboard? Many students nowadays are too familiar with their Smart Board. Blackboards are out, not many schools are using blackboard nowadays. However, white boards are declining as well. Come to think of it, most of us are from the black and white board generation. We had fun with the chalks and the markers however there are definitely constraint towards teaching using those.

How many have actually benefited from the use of LCD projector and white board learning. No doubt that learning has been rather interesting with the use of projector and computer. Well that is at least what I think of. Student tend to pay attention for the use of projection teacher as compared to the dull old use of blackboards.

What about young learners? I am not quite sure they would benefited a lot if this is used alone without the use of anything that encourages their senses. But then again, the use of smart board seems to bridge the use of technology as well as blackboard/whiteboard. Indeed, the generation this day are lucky to have a board that can be touched. Indeed this is the progressive era as termed by Mike.

Assignments Over, Practical In Line.

With assignment 2 completed, it is the final part of the course. The first two assessment that we have been doing had actually prepared me in teaching using ICT. The first assessment had actually given me a better view of the benefits of using ICT in the classroom in enhancing the learning experiences for the children and the second assessment actually gave me a chance to plan a unit plan on any key learning area of my interest to teach. I was rather fascinated how much ICT I put into the unit plan. which was not entirely many. Indeed a manage to come out with a balance lesson that uses ICT to enhance their learning from the introduction to the revision and thinking further stage. 

The next 2 weeks would be purely drafting out what to be done during the practical days while hoping that most the lesson planned out would be implemented successfully without defeating the purpose of enhancing learning and allow children to learn better things rather than to learn more ICT.

Its time for Hooray Hooray with the kids!