Following practicum how has some of your thinking about teaching changed or been further advanced?

I have enjoyed my time out on Prac 1B. I have learnt that I want to continue with this degree as I am seeing the changes I have made in tauira which makes me proud of the work that I have accomplished. While out on Prac 1B, I have noticed some things I will take with me and some things that I won’t. 

During this year, I saw out in schools that they have “Golden Time”. It continues every fortnight where tauira are expected to have a high level of work done for their age group which is year 5-6. They have green, orange and red bands which represents great work (green), satisfactory work (orange) and needs work (red). If they have achieved that green band, they are able to have free time on the Friday afternoon in the second week. If they have received a red band, they don’t get Golden Time and are required to finish off their work to a high Year 5-6 standard. 

Although it is out of a teacher’s control and usually dependent on the school, I didn’t like the use of devices of all work. However, because it is a modern learning environment and most of the teacher’s work was done online, the tauira is required to have a device. I still prefer to work paper and pen with limited use of device. As the times are moving to a modern way of teaching, which does require more use of the devices, I will have to learn to incorporate the use of the technology.