I am going to use this reflection to look at my personal experience of the deluxe lesson and how on reflection, this has increased my confidence when answering interview questions and developing my own teaching philosophy. Davis et al (2009), believes developing this is invaluable and allows for reflection.

I am going to use this reflection to re-visit some of the key teaching strategies I think I have achieved during the course of my journey. Firstly in terms of behaviour management (standard 1a and 1c) I have developed my own points system to enthuse and motivate my pupils. As the school’s topic is the Ancient Egyptians I named tables in keeping with this theme. Points were collected on a daily basis with the table scoring the most at the end of the week receiving a prize for their efforts. I also introduced ‘Egyptian of the day’ where a students name would be drawn at random and that pupil would be responsible for helping me and showing any toys or sharing information with the whole class. It really impressed me how well children responded to this and I hope the class teacher may continue to use it, as she commented on how well it worked. 

I am going to use this reflection to look at the teaching standards I am achieving so far and those I wish to develop further. In the past two weeks I have gone from being anxious in numeracy lessons, to feeling confident and enjoying every single minute of my teaching practice. I am amazed at how well the children have responded to me (standard 1a) as all children respect me and view me as another teacher at their school. I feel the children are enthusiastic alongside my approach to teaching (standard 1c) as children know what I expect of them.

I am going to use this reflection to travel back through the most enjoyable week of the PGCE course for me, task and observation week. Day one of task and observation week consisted of getting to know the class, and observing the teachers behaviour management strategies along with the engagement of pupils. I observed QTS standard 1a almost immediately with students behaving exactly as expected of them, sitting down and starting ‘early work’ as soon as they came into the classroom. The teachers control over the children’s behaviour amazed me, as soon as she said “stop, and show me your hands” the children responded immediately. Praise was continually given and this positive reinforcement encouraged a happy environment in which all pupils wanted to be involved in the learning process.