Select and use resources
In my teaching practice, I have been able to select resources from a variety of sources, develop my own resources and use these to enhance the learning outcomes of students. I have found that through the use of quality educational resources, students are more engaged with learning and thus their interest to learn increases too. When I select and use resources, I am mindful about the needs, interests and learning preferences of my students. I ensure that resources are age-appropriate and provide adequate support in allowing content knowledge to fit within each students' zone of proximal development.
Lesson: The Night of the Paper Bag Monsters
During my placement at Rose Park Primary School, I taught a Visual Arts lesson about colour associations with mood, emphasising cool colours for happy feelings and warm colours for unhappy feelings. To teach this concepts, I used pictures of different expressions (categorised by the students into happy or unhappy), the colour wheel and the story The Night of the Paper Bag Monsters by Helen Craig. To solidify student learning of these concepts, I created a task sheet to go along with their consolidating activity as a platform for them to demonstrate their understanding. More details about this lesson can be found on my blog post 'The Night of the Paper Bag Monsters'. |
Engaging parents with the responsible use of ICT
I have developed a resourceful blog post for parents titled 'Technology and ICT at home' which is intended to give parents advice about how to teach their children about safely using technology. In this post, I highlight five key strategies for parents to keep their children safe online, how and why they should do this.
Here is an example of a suggestion made to parents in Strategy 4:
Here is an example of a suggestion made to parents in Strategy 4:
Learn about cyber safety: Play games and watch videos together | |
This blog post highlights my ability to find and share resources with families that are age-appropriate, meaningful and engaging. This is particularly important as children are increasingly exposed to technology and do not necessarily understand the risks associated with being online. One of the key responsibilities as a 21st century educator is to ensure that children are safely and appropriately engaging with technology and not putting themselves or others in danger.
This blog post highlights my ability to find and share resources with families that are age-appropriate, meaningful and engaging. This is particularly important as children are increasingly exposed to technology and do not necessarily understand the risks associated with being online. One of the key responsibilities as a 21st century educator is to ensure that children are safely and appropriately engaging with technology and not putting themselves or others in danger.
Resources are a valuable learning tool in education and being able to find, select, develop and use them meaningfully in the classroom gives students a greater opportunity to access the curriculum. Through demonstrating content in a variety of visual and auditory ways, students are able to access content on a number of levels. This multi-modal method of instruction is valuable to student learning as all learners have different learning preferences and by exposing them to a number of resources they are more likely to be engaged with and remember the content.