welcome to the Room On the Broom PJ party

I felt so stressed because of the busy hectic day that I experienced, however it was worthwhile so next time I can work on my weakness and improve my strategies in management.  As Mr Sean said it all part of learning plan does review, so I believe that making mistakes know it better so I can seriously reflect and improve myself.

I preformed most of  my duties as a teacher for example my first concern was to show and explain explicitly my plane with my MST and then before setting up the activities I explained and demonstrated each activities for the children.  

Also I did mind maps with the children that is related to the Room On The Broom story creatures  as you can see in this pictures

Moreover , I did implemented some rhythm sound matching and numbers

And creating popup Room on the broom Pajamas party

information card

Furthermore, I did the reading review activities where the children draw and write about their favourite characters of Joulis donelsons Room On the Broom, also I helped  with the organization of the P.J party and I contributed in reading review day by translating English stories children and parent in Arabic. which was wonderful and a success, while that I recognize that although I am talking in Arabic children were interacting and translating some numbers and actions in English which was amazing.

 because of that I intervene the opportunity to communicated and interacted with the parent formally.

At the end my MST took granted of my effort therefore she shared the book that I made for the classroom in front of the children and the parents, honestly their expression was WOaOW they seems really interested and fascinated from my effort. 

Watching my MST implementing phonics lesson made me curious therefore next week insha allah I am going to implement one to one session with group of children , therefore I will do my best to teach and learn in the same time so best of to me (^-^)

I strongly feel that I need to work on my organization while rotating the activities with the children ,  also I need to improve my strategies where I can control children’s hyper active behavior therefore I am going to set a visual rules for the circle time, moreover integrating some brain GYM activities could be beneficial, so girls if you have any useful ideas that you tried it previously with active classroom children please share it with me I really will be grateful.(0-!)

Including the UK EYFS in our school routine can be really beneficial, because once you start integrating them you can sense the differences such as being capable of dealing with different levels and standers of children, and as a teacher we start to take each child developing  learning progress seriously which helps building good human. 

I strongly believe that any teacher should be capable of monitoring and controlling a range of thing at a time, therefor teacher must building her abilities of management and organization so thing will move smoothly.

Moreover, teacher should be flexible and open minded where she can adapt new interesting motivating ideas, as a  I think we always need a piece of mind and a inspiring moment which helps us to develop ourselves not only as a human but as a teacher. And honestly I can see these things in my MST which really inspire me.  

good day

( i am reading story at the end of the day)

Hi every one =D today was such a kayos I had so much things to prepare and do however  finally I felt good because I have received unexpected surprising comment from both of my MST and the TA(>-“)

 I have done most of the duties that any professional teacher does on a regular teaching day , which was taking children attendance, reminding them the classroom rules , and the most important explaining explicitly today’s and  the next week task to my MST and the AT.

Also I did implemented phoenix session whit my MST, to add on this I did make the porridge with 3 different group but first I read the story to let them sequence it and after that I started to ask them about the oat meal and what can we do with it and we discussed  about the color , texture, weight, consistency , moreover we get in to using our 5 senses  and my MST was really impressed of the way of questioning them making them wonder and curious about how solid can change under different circumstances.   

Moreover, I did some math assessment with the children and finally the interview with the key coordinate of the FS2 miss Sandy.

                                ( preparing children for the sequancing story after reading)

                                 (children are working copratively to sequance the story)

  

(interviewing the key cordinator)

  (children are tasting the porridge and looking at the diffrences)

  ( making the porridge)

As far I have seen 2 interesting things that attracted my attention which are, managing children negative behavior throe praising positive attitudes and reinforcing them continuously by exposing clearly her emotions physically, moreover she always vary her tone according to the situation. Also during the phonics session while my MST testing children’s writing skills a child suddenly was crying when she asked hem for the reason he kept repeating that he is incapable of forming this test and others are better than him. Therefore my MST first kept pampering him and telling him that if he can’t do anything he needs to tell her and ask for friends help. Also she kept encouraging him, telling him that he needs to stop saying negative things about himself, try to be positive. From my point of view this attitude will defiantly raise this child’s self-stem

( teacher is varying her voice)

 (teacher build this childs self steam)

Basically I would like to improve my communication skills and try to be as explicit as much as possible, moreover I want to integrate with the parents by this attitude I hope to  build nice understanding between me and them.   Furthermore, I really should work harder while planning different activities, sessions and think more deeply, seriously about each child need and techniques of improving their abilities to achieve the best. Honestly I think this could be implemented throw engaging myself whit the teacher meeting where we can discuss and share some greet ideas, as well as  making one to one correspondence and working collaboratively with my MST  and the TA.     

Every week sat a target on one of the UK EYFS early learning goal so I can work cooperatively with the children to achieve them all. For example while reading story made sure to encourage she children to join in and I did reinforce good behavior and the good role model. From my point of view as a   teacher I should believe in each child ability, to add on this  it is my responsibility to encourage these children to build their confidence and give them a chance to speak out and express here selves which will make them feel that they are valued and the teacher respects their point of view. Honestly teacher should teach and treat each child equally and make sure to develop their one to one correspondence where I listen to the child and he responds oppositely. Other whys I don’t deserve to be a good role model or call myself a teacher.

As an important role of teacher it is to except other people’s perspective and try to adapt new interesting teaching techniques and that’s what my new MST always looking for, which honestly made me happy. In my point of view teaching is all about   seeking toward developing children learning progress. It is not about showing off or being the best teacher, it about spreading the knowledge among others equally although I am new in their environment I can clearly see the huge differences from my previous Tp environment which  is full of positive energy and being there always make me  enthusiastic and keen to learn new thing and share useful knowledge with my MST  ,who understand and gave me the chance to conduct and implement new thing to make changes frankly life is all about making beneficial useful changes and accepting the reality, no one is perfect but there are some paths that can make our children word better to deal with otherwise we won’t seek any success in educational programs.  What you think about it Mr Sean?

This week went really very well for me .I had lots of responsibilities that the MST gave me to work on in the class room. I really felt that she  has started to trust me which is a very important thing in building any relationship.  I experienced different things during this week which made me feel and work like a  professional teacher who always thinks before making any decisions and trying as much as possible to manage  to organize and work on several things. 

In these two days I my main aim was to build relationships with children’s parents particularly in the sports day and guess what Sean I did reach my goal. During that day I managed to communicate with MST, TA and the children,  as well as the parent who were curious to know why we are there so I was explaining to them that we are student teachers who come for Teaching practice in  ECE from DWC .  Most of the parents were surprised and they wish me luck in my professional teaching career, taking the initiative of interacting with the parents made the children feel comfortable to work with me which made my work more serious and enjoyable this made Mrs. murphy happy and she told me “well done miss K”. Moreover, I asked my MST if I could read a story for the children she said turned and said of course you can but I’d prefer if you do it next week so you can prepare yourself for the new inquiry unit, so my MST lent me some stories that were related to the new unit.

During the second day I saw many interesting things that I experienced.  I really was amazed when I saw my MST encouraging the children by praising them say good morning in different languages for example Sara is from Palestine and she said “Koya mora”, Hilma said “Sabah el kheer”, and Mohamed said “ Bonjoor” I loved this way because I feel all children can learn from each other’s language easily and they will acquire it later.  I remember that from my previous experience this is considered to be one of the PYP attitudes the Appreciation of different languages and cooperation with each other

Furthermore, I enjoyed the music and movement class of the wild day. I was singing with the children at the beginning they were surprised but later they started to laugh with me and tried to imitate my actions during the class. There is a huge difference that I experienced in both local and international schools. In the local school there wasn’t any emphasize on the way of teaching the children all kinds of Key concepts and on the trans disciplinary skills. Although the government provided most of the equipment that they needed to teach the children, I think the teachers are lazy they always trying to escape their work and responsibilities and they always complain that nobody appreciates their talents I doubt if they really have any talent Sean!.

In these 2 days I tried lots of thing for example I talk to some of the parent and told them about their children and what is my role in this class room. Also I arrive early in the morning were I helped my MST in the class room set up and I am taking the responsibility of implememnting a numercy session . Moreover, I toke part in the sport day to organize the line up as well as the helping the teacher in providing children food and setting up their places for the lunch time. also i did monitor the children while the ICT lesson by providing help for indeveduals.  furthermore i did interviewed the SENCO as well as attending the teachers meeting

 

final journal of the 3 week block

Bonjoor !(< - >)! everyone finally we come to the end of our TP, hope you all had very good and useful experience. Basically I am feeling ok, but in the same time little bit disappointed although I tried so hard to communicate with my MST but it didn’t work. However, I accomplished my mains witch are finishing the ICT project in 20 minutes and the display.

This week I had to work in different classroom and the whole experience was totally awesome because I managed to establish good relationship with the new MST, the TA and the children. The big surprise was that I some of the children already recognized me because of the RWI session. Some of them hugged me while others peek from my old classroom and come to greet me and ask when they will finish the ICT booklet; therefore I had to tell them to go back to their classroom. Although the atmosphere wasn't pleasant I had to work more effectively and show my best only for the sake of the children. I have seen different session of the RWI and to be honest with you all it was life full the techniques that the MST implemented was completely new and interesting, and I wished if I had to teach in this classroom at the beginning of my TP. Because this MST made sure to let me join with her and interact with the children  while she implement this sessions which shows to me that she want to share  and give lots of useful things to me. It makes me feel appreciated and more than welcome to work in that environment. According to my observations this MST always tries to include other aspects of teaching methods no mater it is a math session or a WRI session witch reinforce good learning all the time.  There are some wonderful strategy that I haven’t seen in my previous class room, the MST  always encourage children to choose their partners to work and in the same time she remind them all the rules of how to show respect to each other with listening making eyes contact and taking turn while sharing and discussing the right answer. Moreover, she made sure to value children point of view, ask them to be honest when she ask any question that is related to their learning process with giving them sensible explanation.  The best thing she give the children a chance to make their own decision and she relates her personal experience to motivate other children who feels shy to overcome their fears to involve in any difficult activities.    Although the circumstances that I have been throe lately effected my self steam  and made me feel that I am not welcomed in that classroom, I determined my mind  to act professionally with a smile no mater that challenges that been made for me on purposes, therefore I  accomplish my ICT project as well as the display successfully witch the children appreciated the most. I did established good relationship with my new MST miss Lynn and Jenny. Moreover, I had wonderful communication with children parents and the best thing was they appreciated my effort with their children who mentioned me at home.   Furthermore, I had a situation were the children kept saying that they feel sleepy while the RWI session therefore I suggested to play the treasure hunt of some sound such as (ee) (oo) (hg) (ow) , so we went out side and enjoyed finding the sound and the letters. There was a huge infuses on developing good relationship and working collaboratively in a small group, also huge effort on reinforcing good behavior and manures in the class room witch makes the environment full of positive energy. The new MST that I had to work with was the good example of humble Hume been and perfect teacher, that I wished to work with from the beginning of my TP. But we cant get everything that we wish for therefore as a student teacher I tried my best to deal explicitly with all kind of situation in very calm and flexible way no matter how bad the circumstances that I faced. As a professional teacher we have to understand another need and try to improve each others skills, teaching it all about sharing new techniques and experiences with each other to promote good learning. Because children are our responsibilities and teachers should make sure to fulfill their learning interest. By preventing the children to interact with the display that they have been working on, really disappointed their expectation because they already told their parents about it and were very excited about it. In my point of view this attitude showed that their work is not been valued and owner. In this 3 days I experienced and learnt lots of useful things, I always ask my self how my relationship worked out successfully with those new MST were they really supported me appreciated my effort in every single step. And why my MST didn’t appreciated my single effort how could she ignore it no matter how hard I worked. I start to ask myself Am I difficult person to deal with? I strongly believe that no matter how perfectionist we are as a teacher we should accept the fact there will be some one better than us and adapting new ideas and trying to make improvement in our self is the solution to over come any problems.  Because we are important part of the society and the community and it is our responsibility to educate the children with the best methods.

2nd 3 week blocks

Ohayoo my class mates how are you? I hope this week TP went well. In these 2 days I had to do 4 days job which was really fun and stressful, However thing with me went seemed to work as my expectations but somehow it wasn’t. Still I am hoping of getting the best out of this TP just wish me luck. (0-^)

I have done most of the duties that the teacher does on a regular teaching day, but this time I was stressed because I had to prepare the activities for the RW inc session as well as the preparing displays activities. Also I had to complete the ICT assignment project with my group. Moreover, I was concern about managing the times to spent between fixing the display , attending the urgent teachers meeting for the national day and reading the stories for all the children. Also I had implemented music and movment session with the children after reading story that is related to it and you wont belive how they all had fun as well as myself  witch was really fun.

This week I had the responsibility of mentoring children in the playground, since my last TP  experience in this school I haven’t seen a single teacher interacting and supporting the children while playing, therefore I made up my mind and I pup up playing with the children encouraging them to climb up the equipments that they get away off most of the time. To be frank girls this is a great way that you can lived and remember you childhood where you can share with the children your instant adventures experience in the same time they can learn a lot out of you because you are being the role model and inspiring them to be adventurist which I enjoy the most.  while that one of the girls fall down and she bumped her head on the ground thank god , once again my emergency responder course helped me, and the great the teachers were really impressed. Also I have seen some children pulling off the flowers from the bushes there for I had to explain that their behavior is unexpected we need to treat the mother nature kindly, after that I had to talk to miss jenny so we took the children in the rainbow room to explain how does it feels when we treat the nature in unreceptive way, so we demonstrated all their bad behavior with one of the children and pretended that this child is the tree and when we pull any part of our body we can heart it so later  they linked to their personal experience and promised to treat the nature kindly. This live demonstration and the open conversation are really effective because through it teacher can break the wall of fears from children’s heart were they feel that their social interaction and thoughts are being valued and appreciated, in the same time all of them are getting and sharing useful information which will help them to develop their thinking perspective.

Basically the activities that I prepared for the RWI, numeracy and the display went really very well and the children seems to enjoy it the most specially reading stories and acting it out as well as dancing. Therefore, some children such as Nour came and hugged me in front of the MST and her mum, she told me that she will miss me the most because she will soon leave the UAE and go back to Lebanon. Also Hasan make sure to bring his mum to talk about him before the school end and Iv received positive comments from her toward me attitude and how his child had progress. Moreover, Yahya kept telling me that I am the best teacher that he ever had. Although after tying so hard to communicate with my MST there is always something wrong, she tries to pick on me I don’t know why.  

teacher should act and behave professionally and the most important thing is to give other people chance to listen others point of view and think about how to make changes in their life, no mater how perfect they pretend to be. As a matter of fact we all are different and I strongly believe that each one is especial and have unique quality ,the best thing is to work collaboratively to achieve the best and influence other were we inspire them to learn help in the process of the community.  so best of luck to all of you girl and try to work and enjoy every moment of the final TP. Remember keep smiling no mater how desperate you are and keep thinking positively good luck(>-~)

1st 3 week blocks

Hi girls hope you all had a nice TP, this week really went so quick and somehow it was really stressful for me but the best part was the children were cooperative and they always made me smile although sometime my MST treat me in unfairly, to be honest with you all I am just counting the days so these 3 week block finishes. But till I promised myself to show my MST how determine I am toward my responsibilities ,no matter of the challenges I will face I will be positive and behave in a professional way (! - !)

Basically my best experience was visiting the Mushrif  park with the children and hunt for the different kinds of houses all around the park, in the bus I had to remind the children of the safety rules and then we wear all singing song such as the wheel on the bus goes round, also 12345 once I caught a fish. Moreover, my main focus was to accomplish my display and enjoy all the process of making it. Moreover I have attended the teachers meeting to help out in the national day event and the good thing was most of the teacher were impressed with the idea of explaining our flag color. Also I managed to work on my ICT survey with group of children and finally 6 of them love Ben 10 therefore next week I will do the searching on the internet to get some pictures of Ben 10.

This week I did communicate with lots of parents and some of the children were offecialy introducing me to them there for after talking with my MST I got the permission of explaining for the parents about the ICT project ans explaining the purpuss of implementing it with their children, the best comment that I have recived from some parent was that their children were mensioning me and they talk about me with their parents in a positive way, this really make me strong and be patient to tolerance my MST s negative attitude.

This week TP wasn’t good enough I had to face lots of ups and downs while interacting with my MST but still I have to think positive and keep smiling trying to work and think above her expectations, to be honest with you all my this MST is not flexible at all however the TA is wonderful who always shows interest in my work and from time to time she make sure to give me useful suggestions witch I love the most about her. As a teacher it is very important to support new student try to be flexible and communicate clearly. Hope when I will be teacher I wont treat my Student teacher in this way because my main concern will be to make the my student teacher the best teacher that work and think professionally with all sort of people in respective way. Still for next week I will be positive work harder and try to show my best in a professional way , hope the MST will be cooperative the next week.