PERSONAL

REFLECTIVE
PRESENTATION
David Mathews
 WHY I SELECTED THIS
CHALLENGE
What I wanted to accomplish?

helping the students with difficult Improving communication skills Improving leadership skills
problems
 SKILLS
SKILLSAUDIT
AUDIT

As
Asthis
thischallenge
challengerequires
requiresthetheuse
useofof
understanding
understandingone’s
one’sskills
skillsand
andhow
howtotoapply
apply
and
andimprove
improvethem.
them.I Ihad
hadused
usedaaskills
skillsaudit
audittoto
understand
understandthetheskills
skillsofofmine
minewhich
whichwere
werethe
the
best and the ones which needed improvement.
best and the ones which needed improvement.
 PLANNING AND ORGANISING
The strengths of this
challenge is it that it allows
Strikes at the moment are
me to speak to an audience
the biggest threat as they
of people which is one my
could compeltely hault my
weakpoints which I would
progress with the lesson
like to develop. Another
plans. As well as that traffic
strength is that I have
problems could delay or
acheived an A* grade in my
could even cancel a day of
Mtahs GCSE making me
my teaching at the school.
one of the most suitable in
teaching students.

My communication and all

It will take a bit of time to
get to know the students
the way certain topics are
taught and make my
vocabulary understandable
to some of the students.
of my verbal skills will have
to be trained during this
period as that is the most
important part of my
challenge to develop in the
verbal communication skills
that I lack
 PRE-VOLUNTEERING
QUESTIONAIRE

I had created a questionnaire before my

volunteering in order to see where the
students were in terms of their ability in
maths the amount of time thjey spend outside
of skills what they currently struggle on.
 LESSON PLAN

I had constructed a lesson planto be able to

improve the skills that I was lacking in and a
lesson plan that would be able to help the
studetns in the topics that would be in their
GCSEs.
PRE-VOLUNTEERING QUESTIONAIRE RESPONSES
 AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

AIM 1 AIM 2 AIM 3

Develop an understanding Develop an understanding
of teaching and understand Develop an understanding of teaching and understand
students during lessons of teaching and understand students during lessons
students during lessons
 support the students when
they were working on the
tasks set. David was
“ I found David to be great
approachable in his manner
help, I was struggling quite
and was a great help,

MY IMPACT ON THE SCHOOL

a bit on trigonometry as I
had found the different
questions confusing as I
especially with lower ability
classes where more
support is needed.
didn’t know what methods
Therefore, David
to use, David helped into
contributed to the progress
realising in what context
made by the students in the
and with the information in
class. David also supported
the question to find an
some after school revision
efficient method to answer
sessions for year 11 in
questions in low amounts of
preparation for their
time. He helped me and the
GCSE’s. Again, David was
whole class be more
able to use his knowledge
confident with time
of the subject to accurately
restraints in the exam as
explain methods and
we were doing questions
concepts to students who
well below the average time
needed support. As David
taken for that specific
was another body in the
question.”
room that could help it
• Joe Yip, (16) student at meant that the students
were able to get support
St Richard Gwyn
sooner and therefore
Catholic High School
continue making progress
at the rate needed.”
• Brenna Organ, Maths
Teacher at St Richard
Gwyn Catholic High
School
POST-VOLUNTEERING QUESTIONAIRE

I had created a questionnaire before my

volunteering in order to see where the
students were in terms of their ability in
maths the amount of time thjey spend outside
of skills what they currently struggle on.
POST-VOLUNTEERING QUESTIONAIRE RESPONSES
EMAIL EVIDENCE:
 THANKS!
My contact information is as followed:

• 07657 878450
• J12961@stdavidscollege.ac.uk