we gonna be starting class today with a little bit of a quick so you gonna be talking
about techniques like colour I am a first-year teacher at Adelaide High School my
specialties are English and Spanish and I teach from years
9 to 12 Adelaide high is this states first and only specialist languages school remember how I talked
about we have students from very culturally diverse backgrounds and we
have a pretty large student body of about 1,200 students we have a focus on
academic achievement and our results tend to be quite high lets go through that
thanks guys Aiden what is the narrators name on the first page it says
something about Chris writing the story and there's a part in the book when she goes
through and she described her friend and Katie what happens when Ellie went to the
toilet in the night she heard the planes flying over yep spot on while I was at
uni professional development was important we are encouraged to learn in
all different ways I had two languages tutors who were very passionate and
they ensured that we were all members of Maltasa which is the languages teachers Association in south Australia so I while at uni did attend
several conferences and these covered a range of different things I think ICT in languages
which is also applicable to my role as an English teacher looking at genre
which is also applicable
looking at inter cultural learning strategies how else do we get a sense of who they are
what other techniques does the author use to tell us about the characters I also
did two weeks of a placement after I finished where I got to work with a teacher who showed me all the
administrative elements of being a teacher that sort of back side of it
that I didn't really get at University
we are going to be writing an essay that compares and contrasts the two cooking
shows for a new graduates or for a student who is currently studying to be
a teacher I think it's very important to their teaching practice that they do
seize all opportunities to develop their skills outside of the university
curriculum we are balancing many different personalities students with
different needs and it's important that as an English teacher I have strategies
to be able to help these students perform at their best
today what we're going to look at is part of the portfolio aspect of our course Sarah is
the English and ESL coordinator and I'm really fortunate to have her as a mentor
the other thing you need to be aware of is that there is one draft per student
and that's the size Board's policy I often observe Sarah teaching her classes
so that I can better my own teaching practice just seeing the way that she structures
her classroom how she introduces her content the types of questions that
she's asking all very valuable for me as a new teacher reaching the lounge room I
noticed that chores have been started but were incomplete I think behavior
management is the biggest challenge for most new teaches you need help to
develop strategies and develop a style that you feel comfortable with relating
to the students Sarah has been very helpful in helping me to do that here
especially because she knows the students so what comes to mind when you
approach the text production
component of the folio Sarah will meet with me probably once a week to once a
fortnight and guide them explicitly with those we discuss mounds of things performance
standards a student behaviour the structuring of lessons how long to run an
assignment for explicit teaching method things like that it is a good idea
trying to aim for something like that but its not always the way it turns out teaching is
a profession where we are asking students to learn and to grow and
develop so I think it would be redundant if we as teachers didn't do the same I
also think that's why I entered the profession because I enjoy enjoy that
thirst for knowledge ok you're all done