I am an English Teacher at an SEMH secondary school. My resources cover a wide range of key stages and abilities to cater for the complex needs of my students. Often my resources will be designed to appeal to older students with a lower ability content, but they still work well for younger students also. I have a big interest in Phonics, low ability resources with a high interest level for older students, creating useful displays and making stickers to aid in my marking.
I am an English Teacher at an SEMH secondary school. My resources cover a wide range of key stages and abilities to cater for the complex needs of my students. Often my resources will be designed to appeal to older students with a lower ability content, but they still work well for younger students also. I have a big interest in Phonics, low ability resources with a high interest level for older students, creating useful displays and making stickers to aid in my marking.
SCITT Assignments
I had a yearlong salaried placement in Secondary English at my home school including a half term placement at a different secondary school within my federation. I was graded Outstanding for my teacher training year. I was offered a permanent role at my home school for my NQT year before the end of my first term of training. My placement school also offered to create a permanent role for me, but I chose to continue my employment at my home school.
These are the essay based assignments that I completed during my SCITT year, which you may find useful for reference purposes. If the topics I covered are relevant to you, you will find my references particularly useful, as these are a collection of pertinent educational research materials, which I found extremely helpful during my training year; not only in completing my assignments, but I found they did inform my teaching practise.
Where PDFs are available for the research I have referenced, I have included them here, so you will have a bank of educational research ready to go. Where PDFs were not available, web links at the time of writing have been included.
Assignment A
Reflect on how your teaching skills and understanding of secondary education have developed as a result of your second school placement.
With reference to:
• Marking & feedback including relevant educational research.
• Classroom management: Timers and Think Pair Share, including relevant educational research.
• Use of resources and technologies, Accelerated Reader, library as a resource including relevant educational research.
Assignment B
With reference to educational research and your own teaching, investigate the factors that support all students in making ‘outstanding’ progress.
With reference to:
• Differentiation, testing and interventions including relevant educational research.
• Effective questioning/Think Pair Share including relevant educational research.
• Assessment including relevant educational research.
• Marking and Feedback including relevant educational research.
