Aim 6

The aim is to do the closing section for each lesson or at the end of the day.

 

 

  Rationale

During the 6 weeks of my teaching practice, I did the opening circle for the children to introduce the topic that I wanted to teach them and the activities that I expected them to do. After that, I did the focus groups with them where they had to do creative art work. However, I never did the closing whole at the end of each lesson because the English teacher told me that we have to share the lessons between us and also the Arabic teacher was taking some parts of the English literacy lessons. Therefore, I need to do the closing whole section with the whole group of children to review the topic and the areas that I taught them. Moreover, during this section, I can assess them individually, in peers and in groups.
Strategies

•Review the topic with the children (the numbers or letters).

•Ask the children some open ended questions to know who achieved the learning outcomes and who may need more support.

•Get the children’s artifacts and ask them what they did and how they did their art work.

 

 

  Mentor Observation

  

Self evaluation

Week 1:

o I tried to read a story book for the children about numbers but they didn’t give me their attention. I think this is because of that they had enough listening to the teacher’s talking and they need activities that are entertaining for them.

o The movie encouraged the children to review the sound of the letter as well as the objects that start with the same sound.

 

 

Week 2:

o Ask the children some open ended questions about the trip that they went to (AL Ain Plastic Industry) and encourage them to had conversation to develop their language skills through talking, social skills through talking and communicating with their friends and cognitive skills through thinking of the answers and evaluate what they did see in the factory. 
 

Week 3:

 

o Playing rhyming game at the end of the day supported the children’s letters sounds recognition. I encouraged the children to use it at the end of the day for their names. Such as, I showed them the letter R and point at Ahmed. The children have to replace the A letter from the child’s name and put the R letter, so they have to say Rahmed. The children like the game and they were too active and wait for their name, so they can replace their names with the letter that I showed them. However, I could change this game by providing the letters cards on the floor and help the children to get a letter and use it for their friend names.

 

Week 4:

o I provided the plastic shapes to encourage the children to create letter. At the end of the lesson I asked each of them what letter did they create, what shapes did they use and what is the way that they use to create the letters.

 

o To review the positions numeracy outcome, I provided a chair and an object and I modeled the game for the children by putting the object over the chair and under the chair and saying the position at the same time. After that I encouraged the children to come one by one and put the objects in the positions that I said. This activity showed me who understand the positions and who need more support.