Reflective Blog

My Reflection 

The children in the activity you lead (on the carpet) require your constant intervention to ensure they are engaged and can do the task.   For what reasons can this be problematic?  How could you plan it differently? 

During my lesson I gave the students an activity where I distributed number flash card on the carpet and asked each one of the students to show me a number. Some of the student found the activity a little hard and some of them didn’t actually enjoyed the activity I had to engage the students by praising them and giving them positive reinforcement to get other students to get excited and participate in the activity. Many of them wanted to play and some didn’t actually understood what are they required to do. I think this kind of activities are not engaging the students enough and it won’t get them into thinking and being focused in the activity.

For my next lesson I  will make sure to make the activities more engaging by make it a bit challenging to the students, for an example I will put the students in two teams and they will challenge each other and whoever gets the right answer will get a point. Also I can flip the cards and let the students choose any of the cards and say what number is this. And in addition I can add the Arabic numbers to make it very challenging to them and that will engage them to participate and wanting to be a part of the game. Moreover next time I will make sure that I have activities for all of the different level and abilities that I have in the classroom to let all of the students get a turn and participate more during the carpet time and the whole group activities. 

Introduction

Introduction 

Welcome to my internship blog 

In my internship blog, i will post and publish my reflective journal that i will be writing during my time in Al Zayedya KG. 

First of all, my action research project topic is Learning Through Activities in KG classes in the UAE. i choose this topic for some reasons  Firstly, learning through activities has a lot of benefits for students and i believe that different children have different abilities and most of them can easily learn through activities. Secondly, i think that learning through activities can help students to develop many skills like emotional, cognitive, physical and social. Thirdly, as a teacher i believe that from the activities i can evaluate the students' progress in learning and knowledge so easily and assess their levels. 

My professional development plan (PDP) goals: 

1- Implement and plan variety of techniques and strategies to create more interesting and varied activities.

2- Manage the transition between the activities and teach the students a certain routine or rules that they have to follow. 

3-  To model and demonstrate activities

4-  Improve classroom management during centers time with SEN students  

5- Monitoring assessment with low ability or quiet students in the classroom.