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Q1, Q2 Children Relationships

Progress

• Daily work with form tutored by AJC.
• Many of the pupils talk individually to me.
• Am consistently polite and respectful to all pupils.

To Develop

• Need to impose more of my expectations of their behaviour on them.

Q3 Frameworks

Progress

• Issued three detentions and filed one incident slip this week.
• Am pulling children up on their uniform more.
• Have a good attendance and punctuality record.
• Work long hours for the school.

To Develop

• Need to get better at discerning good and poor teaching practice at the school.

Q4, 5 and 6 Communicating with Others

Progress

• Good working relationships with other teachers, within maths dept and beyond.

To Develop

• Become less self-centred over time, once survival is less of an issue.
• Consult more over lesson content with the teacher in charge.

Q7, 8 and 9 Personal

Progress

• Designed many of the lessons myself.
• Listen constructively and discuss the advice received.
• Kept a self-evaluation log of every lesson.
• Bought or built equipment needed to conduct lessons.

To Develop

• Consolidate list of adice and criticism received.
• Draw up action plan.

Q10 Teaching and Learning

Progress

• Have listened to, or observed, and picked up many aspects of behaviour management strategies.

To Develop

• Be open to a continual stream of advice on ways to improve.

Q11, 12 and 13 Assessment

Progress

• Marking homework at least twice a week.
• Using MyMaths.
• Keeping spreadsheet of pupil attainment.

To Develop

• Get much more familiar with GCSE (and A-level) syllabus.
• Understand national statistics and their use.

Q14, 15 Subject

Progress

• Trusted by pupils to know my stuff, although some Y8 students say they don't think I explain it well.

To Develop

• Improve my knowledge of what students know or should know before constructing each lesson plan.

Q16, 17 Cross-curriculum

Progress

• User of IWB, ActivStudio, PowerPoint, Excel, wiki etc
• Compiling my education record online.
• Passed all three QTS tests first time.

To Develop

• Understand how maths can help pupil literacy, and vice versa.

Q18-20 Achievement and Diversity

Progress

• Worked with teaching assistant in 7MA4 each week.
• Worked with Stuart Hooker (Autistic spectrum pupil in 8MA3) four times a week.

To Develop

• Increase experience of English-as-a-2nd-lanaguage pupils.
• Gain more SEN observation experience.

Q21 ?

Progress

To Develop

• Read and research the topic
• Talk to people with experience.

Q22-24 Planning

Progress

• Homework set twice a week for Y8 and Y10 classes
• Have allowed pupils to use IWB a little.

To Develop

• Create lesson plan two days ahead of each lesson.
• Understand prior pupil knowledge better.
• Understand curriculum better.
• Encourage pupils to use IWB more.

Q25 Teaching

Progress

• Use of MyMaths and Whiteboard.com
• Have been very reluctant to eject students from the class.
• Y8: usually recap what pupils learnt as intro to lesson

To Develop

• Get more experience of diversity, inclusion and promoting equality.

Q26-28 Assessing

Progress

• Spreadsheet of attainment on each student

To Develop

• Get much more experience of giving students feedback on their attainment and areas for improvement.

Q29 Reviewing Teaching and Learning

Progress

• Habitually make substantial changes to lesson plans within the 24 hours leading up to the lesson, in order to take account of pupil progress.

To Develop

• Improve

Q30-31 Learning Environment

Progress

• Have listed my classroom rules to both Y8 and Y10.
• Have modified these rules in the light of suggestions.

To Develop

• Improve my consistency and discipline framework.
• Enforce the rules more.

Q32-33 Team working

Progress

• Attended Inset Day with maths department
• Have recommended textbooks to both MG and EB.
• Discuss daily teaching experience with the staff.

To Develop

• Gain more experience in the use of TAs.