Third & final year students

EPL 3 – Session 1 Review work experience & EPL expectations Third & final year students

EPL Sessions on campus this year What we need to do … • Ensure everyone is clear on expectations and requirements • Share and build strategies • Prepare for placements and the transitioning to the workplace & employment

Work Experience 2009 • How did it go? • What did you learn?

Consider the following… It’s all about you AND It’s not about you How did that play out???

Reflective activities • Reflection sheet & Metaphor • http://www.learner.org/workshops/nextmove/metaphor/metresults.php3http://www.slideshare.net/bcole/teachers-and-teaching-metaphors-presentation • Strategy sharing using placemats Reflect: How could you use these strategies in a classroom context? Have you got somewhere you document and record good strategies?

EPL Requirements • Appropriate progress during daily visits and the three week continuous block (including Working Porfolio) • Professional Portfolio – align to QCT standards • Individual Learning Plan • Unit of work

Unit & Curriculum planning • Find out what school has done in the past – you need to work within their parameters but ‘value add’ • Go back to Essential Learnings & syllabus documents yourself • Check the QCAR assessment bank & other resources (NAPLAN, literacy & numeracy indicators) • Use uni template or school templates (perhaps adapt to suit our requirements) • When you are clear on the curriculum intent, and assessment outcomes, learning journey becomes clearer • Other levels of planning all need to keep revisiting ‘learning intent’ – don’t fall into ‘activity teaching’

Overall this term • Continually reflect on your own practice • Observe and reflect on the practice of others • Continue to build your repertoire of skills and knowledge • Have a range of strategies to use when planning pedagogy and enacting it • Find your own ‘teacher’ voice and presence in context of that classroom/with that teacher

Messages for the start of the year • Map everything you need to do and put it on a physical planner • Ensure you communicate clearly with your Mentor – don’t rely on texting or email if you can’t make it • Work out your days and what you commit to and stick with them (don’t say I’m coming every week, then stop going when assignments come in)

Positive professional relationships with mentor teachers • Even if their style is not your own • It is their class • They are still establishing themselves with the class & parents • You need to earn their trust • You need to demonstrate your competency and commitment • You often need to ‘prove’ yourself before some teachers may be keen for you to ‘take risks’ and try something new or different

If things aren’t going well…what do you do? • Look at what you are doing – what’s working, what’s not working… list all options • Consider the other possible perspectives • You need to talk to your mentor teacher/LLM face to face • Make a specific time to meet, make notes if you’re nervous and rehearse what you might say • “When this happens… I feel….” • Let us know…

For next week • Nominate areas you would like to look at in these sessions • Bring in ILP form and reflections on previous experiences and feedback • Download and bring in a copy of the Queensland College of Teachers Standards • http://www.qct.edu.au/standards/index.html

Teachers we remember….

Third & final year students