Teaching is my passion and I wish to apply for a position anywhere in the greater Brisbane Catholic Archdiocese. My greatest asset is my ability to work with disengaged and struggling students. Parents are the primary care givers of the children and I will work in partnership with them to support the learning of every student.
Teaching is my passion and I wish to apply for a position anywhere in the greater Brisbane Catholic Archdiocese. My greatest asset is my ability to work with disengaged and struggling students. Parents are the primary care givers of the children and I will work in partnership with them to support the learning of every student.
Teaching is my passion and I wish to apply for a position anywhere in the greater Brisbane Catholic Archdiocese. My greatest asset is my ability to work with disengaged and struggling students. Parents are the primary care givers of the children and I will work in partnership with them to support the learning of every student.
Teaching is my passion and I wish to apply for a position wherever I am
needed within the greater Brisbane Catholic Archdiocese. Having grown up in a small town, I feel passionately about regional students being able to have access to quality education by faith-filled and enthusiastic teachers. My burning desire is to see a students eyes light up when they master a concept that they have been challenged with. In my planning and teaching, I design learning experiences with academic rigour to challenge every student to reach their full potential, documenting modifications and adjustments in my planning. I believe in creating a sense of community in my classroom where every student wants to come to school to learn and have fun. My faith is central to my beliefs and upbringing and I model this whilst sharing it with the students in my care. My faith continues to deepen as I share it with children in my class and it is important to me that children in Catholic schools get to learn about religion as well as being religious. At the centre of my philosophy and passion, is the students I teach. Every decision I make within the classroom will be determined with my students needs in mind and how I can further enhance their learning. My greatest asset is my ability to work with disengaged and struggling students. These students make me continually strive to better my teaching and myself so that I can create an appropriate way to motivate and enrich their learning. It is my belief that students work best with clear guidelines and expectations. This is why at the start of every year my class and I will create a Class Covenant. Through research and practice I have found that having the students create the covenant themselves, makes it more personal and the students have more ownership of the guidelines. I believe the Class Covenant is the link between behaviour management, building a sense of community and sense of belonging centred on the Gospel Values. Parents are the primary care givers of the children and I will work in partnership with them to support the learning of every student. I plan to work with the students and the parents to create individual short and long-term goals. I will observe and learn from experienced colleagues to enhance my practice as a beginning teacher and to learn about the schools individual charism. Through these teachers, I will also learn information about families so I can build rapport with all members of the school community. I believe that every student can learn given the right scaffolding and opportunities. By making learning intentions of a lesson clear and specific to students this assists them in gauging their own success and learning
progression. I plan to extend students knowledge, comprehension and
understanding through tailor-made lessons to suit students ability. To enhance my teaching and to be able to further develop my pedagogical practices, reflection will be a vital component to my development. I will reflect on my lessons, have the students reflect on their learning and my units and also discuss my teaching with my colleagues. As a life long learner, I believe my pedagogical practices will continue to develop as I teach and learn new approaches through further readings and discover from colleagues so that I can gain more experience. I am very familiar with the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) documents and use them to plan engaging units of work and learning experiences. My particular passion is to help students at risk and believe one of my strengths is the way that I make adjustments in my planning to allow all students to access the curriculum with support at a level that they are able to have success. I believe my learning about teaching does not stop at university. I strive to stay current by reading about theorists, educators and clever ideas on websites, journals and webcasts. Reading works published by researches like John Hattie and Lyn Sharratt, reinforce my own beliefs about teaching. Good teachers make the difference and I plan to be a good teacher to all of my students. I have chosen this career path because in education because I witnessed teachers make a difference in students lives and now I want the honour, privilege and challenge to do the same.