As no person can be good at everything, working in a team provides a great opportunity for the school staff to learn from each other’s skills and talents. Teamwork is dependent on trusting, professional relationships with each other and with their supervisors. As a result of teamwork, teachers and teaching assistants improve the ways in which they work together efficiently to meet the needs of children in their classes. I as a teaching assistant working together and helping each other create an atmosphere of teamwork that improves the child performance and work morale. > The Purpose and Objective of the team that am working in The team I work in is year 6 group.
There is a positive culture of learning and development that is celebrated by merits, certificates, displays and praise from teaching staff. School trips are used to help pupils to work together and increase team work and bonding. School clubs are varied and encourage pupils to further their interests in other areas. The school has an inclusive environment and positively reflects the importance of diversity, every effort is made to ensure that all pupils can be involved in all areas of school life and other cultures are celebrated. The aims or vision of a school are often seen in the school literature and are set by the head teacher in collaboration with the staff, parents and community.
In my school will strive to produce happy, healthy, confident and successful learners. On a day to day basis we promote our school code by looking after each other, listening, being polite, tell the truth and work and play to the best of our abilities. Our strap line is: Together on a voyage of discovery'. School Aims - these relate to
As pupils may lose interest in lessons, it may cause problem for forthcoming activities you may break down activities that need doing and explain things rather than children losing interest from learning. Another example to control behaviour in your classroom is to set up an rewards system for children as this will encourage them to earn rewards and be recognised for their good deeds. Another skill that supports work with children is commitment and enabling yourself to work well in a team. To work with children, you must have a passion and be prepared to commit yourself to children and their work in order to help them learn and succeed. As working with children will not be easy in aspects of planning, teaching etc.
Behavior Management Philosophy I believe that all students have the right to a safe and effective learning environment. I believe that teachers have the right to a safe and effective teaching environment. I believe that discipline problems are minimized when students are engaged in meaningful and interesting activities. I believe that students do best with positive reinforcement techniques. I believe that the teacher should try to be a positive reinforcement rewarding the desired behavior.
Accepting shared responsibility by knowing what our role is and what’s expected of us is very important, following recognised procedure and understanding shared values all promote good relationships. Educational values such as school Mission Statements and classroom Golden Rules helps all of us to promote a positive learning environment in the school. It is very important to have a good relationship with someone as they could help with disputes or disagreements, when they arise. Treat people how you expect to be treated, treat people as an equal and positively to promote effective communication. 1.2.
Children can notice the bad communication and that would not set a good example for growing, young children. Working in a school, staff will be face with having to communicate with parents of their pupils, effective communication is needed in this case because it is important that teachers, teaching assistants and parents have a positive relationship so they can communicate the outside of school and inside of school life of pupils. 1.2 Explain the principals of relationship building with children, young people and adults. The principals of relationship building There a several principals of relationship building. One of them is effective communication, this is a key to start or maintain a positive relationship.
Values and Individual Rights AO1 A positive care environment is where people are cared for and well looked after. In this piece of coursework I shall be looking at how different services, create a positive care environment. I shall also be looking at the values the care environment uphold to keep the service users protected, and the rights of the individual service users. A positive care environment for a school is when both children and staff respect each other’s values and rights. At my work experience (BCJS) it is important for the school to have a positive care environment as the children need to feel like it is a place where they are safe and comfortable which will hopefully lead them to do well in their school work.
Even in the young grades, teachers need to relate the content in which they are teaching in every way possible. Authentic instruction is a wonderful strategy to use in the classroom, to show students the importance of the content at hand. Along with authentic instruction, teachers can use various strategies to help the students organize their thoughts and the information they have read. Authentic instruction is often defined by teachers and preservice teachers as being interesting, motivating, fun, relevant topics (Duke, Gates, Hall, Tower, 345). Simply this is a
Assessment Item One – ‘What is an Effective Teacher?” Personal Beliefs - Abstract There is no definitive answer, rather levels of effectiveness. The accumulation of considerable experience teaching in both private industry and as a High School teacher has resulted in me anchoring my teaching practices on what I consider to be pedagogical lynchpins: passion, subject knowledge, exemplar teaching, equity, structure, high expectations of all students and student motivation. Additionally, I feel that teacher development is a critical factor for progressive, effective teaching to eventuate. Passion for teaching is paramount, because if I am not interested, then why should they (be)? If I have to sell a ‘product’, then it is one in which I must have my heart.