When reflecting on the discoveries
I have found within the
Educator unit are the
different things you have to consider if you want to peruse a teaching career. Such
as child protection, which is a very important aspect as it, is essential to
know the appropriate way to act and be around children.
Another aspect, which I have
discovered from observing my tutors and the teachers from DACA, is that every
one has a different style or technique when teaching. When researching my own
teaching style I completed a teaching style survey, which suggested that the
style of my teaching is a demonstrator or coach like it states that I have one main goal that is to show the
students what they need to know.
·
Pros: Demonstrative teachers
incorporate a variety of teaching formats including lectures, multimedia
presentations and student-involved demonstrations.
·
Cons: Because of the high degree of
engagement, it is difficult to accommodate students’ individual needs in larger
classrooms.
Having this teaching style implies
in a larger class I would not be able to work on a one to one basis with my
students. Suggesting that I would struggle to teach a larger class.
To resolve this I would have
to consider incorporating a more Authority, or lecture style. This style is centred on the teacher taking and the students absolving the
information by using methods such as note taking. This would improve my
teaching method, as it is important to have a good medium of all the different
methods to become a good teacher.
When considering what I
learned in the Educator unit is a basic introduction of what it is, to be a
teacher and the steps you have to take to peruse is as a career option. The
main aspects of which I have learnt are teamwork can not work without
communication and effort as well as what is expected of you when working in a
professional setting e.g. time management, dedication, planning and
organization. This unit has helped me discover that teaching high school
student is not the age range I would like to work with I now understand that I
would like to work with a older age range such as college students or adults.
My engagement with the workshops has been
successful as I communicated well with my peers and delegated the different
roles between our team mates an example of how well one of our workshops was a
viewer from unit X she has commissioned the pompoms stall and stated that “the
pompoms workshop is a great idea and it works well to engage with people.” However
one aspect I could improve on is stating my own opinions in-group tutorials
including confidence as I have always struggled saying no to people this is an
aspect I need to work on. I could achieve this by speaking more in the
tutorials and by putting myself out of my comfort zone.
As an art student I save
a lot of my old materials as you never know when it can come in handy which it
did in the peppered moth workshop by recycling my old materials I was
considering the cost and also the environment. The students in the moth
workshop where quite young by placing small amounts of the materials on paper
plate and by put away the rest for the next table this gave each child equal
opportunity to use the same materials. During this workshop and the DACA one we
split each process onto different table this method helped us to mange the
students and develop the different stages of the moth.
By doing the different
stages’ it helped the children to understand what happened to the peppered
moth.
During this unit I have
discovered when creating a workshop for art it is more hands on and requires
you to consider the materials and processed by dry running your workshop this
helped me to consider what’s what I need to re consider also improvement.
Planning and prep is one of my key motivations of which I would take further in
my future practise I have enjoyed this brief it as helped me develop me
practise to become a teacher.
References
N.p., 2016. Web. 15 May 2016.
"Teaching Style Quiz: What Is Your Teaching Style?". Hotchalkeducationnetwork.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 May 2016.
"Teaching Styles: Different Teaching Methods & Strategies". Education.cu-portland.edu. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 May 2016.
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