PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE GOALS

Giving consideration to your course work and your expectations of this professional
experience, state the objectives to which you intend to give highest priority in this
teaching practice session.
N.B. 1. This task must be completed and discussed with your Professional
Experience Subject Coordinator
prior to the commencement of your placement.
2. These objectives will form the basis of the targets for your teaching sessions.
3. Objectives should be specific, expressed as outcomes and include indicators of
success.
Goal
Goal 1:
Plan for and
implement effective
teaching and learning

Goal 2:
Know students and
how they learn

Actions you will take to

work towards the goal
3.3 Use teaching strategies

1.1 Physical, social and

intellectual development and
characteristics of
students

Indicators of achievement of
goal
Create good introductions to
learning
Cater for diverse learning
Become familiar with different
planning ideas.
Use verbal and non-verbal
tactics for classroom
management.
Be familiar with discipline
program and actually
implement it.
Identify physical, social and
intellectual development and
characteristics of students
take notes

1.5 Differentiate teaching to

meet the specific learning
needs of students across the
full range of abilities

Observe how Associate Teacher

caters for different on learning
styles and implement some
these in own teaching

3.5 Use effective classroom

Communication

Come up with strategies of

teaching and assessing these
students

Goal 3:
Plan for and
implement effective
teaching and learning

Goal 4:
Assess, provide
feedback and report
on student learning

3.2 Plan, structure and

sequence learning programs
3.4 Select and use resources

5.1 Assess student learning

5.2 Provide feedback to

students on their learning

Plan lessons in sequence.

Advance student knowledge
using effective teaching
strategies.
Use varied resources including
primary sources and construct
questions that will bring out
discussion and deeper thinking
by students
Use varied assessment
strategies such as informal and
formal, diagnostic, formative
and summative approaches to
assess student learning.
Use appropriate and
constructive feedback to
students

Other aims you may have for the professional experience:

To experience business studies and geography type lessons

Learn as much as possible from Associate, other teachers and staff at the school.

To ascertain if secondary teaching is for me.

Preservice Teacher ____________________________________________

Date ___________

Associate Teacher ____________________________________________

Date ___________

Subject Coordinator