PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE GOALS Genna Hoysted

Giving consideration to your course work and your expectations of this professional
experience, state the objectives to which you intend to give highest priority in this
teaching practice session.
N.B. 1. This task must be completed and discussed with your Professional
Experience Subject Coordinator
prior to the commencement of your placement.
2. These objectives will form the basis of the targets for your teaching sessions.
3. Objectives should be specific, expressed as outcomes and include indicators of
success.
Goal

Actions you will take to

work towards the goal

Goal 1:
Know students and how
they learn

1.1 Demonstrate knowledge

and understanding of
physical, social and
intellectual development and
characteristics of students and
how these may affect learning.

Create student profiles

acknowledging students
learning abilities, what they
are like and how their
learning is developing.
Include strategies
To overcome these issues.

Build on student profiles to

include family background
and any issues that will
affect students learning.

2.2 Organise content into

coherent,
well-sequenced learning and
Teaching programs.

2.3 Support colleagues to plan

and
implement learning and teaching
programs using contemporary
knowledge and understanding of
curriculum, assessment and
reporting
Requirements.
4.1 Establish and implement
inclusive and positive
interactions to engage
and support all students in
Classroom activities.

Make sure lesson plans

follow on from each other,
allowing students to use
their prior knowledge to
their advantage.
Plan lessons or units as a
group to gain insight from
other teaching on how to
teach particular subject.

1.3 Demonstrate knowledge

of teaching strategies
that are responsive to the
learning strengths and
needs of students from
diverse linguistic, cultural,
religious and socioeconomic
Backgrounds.
Goal 2: Know the
content and how to
teach it.

Goal 3: Create and

maintain supportive and
safe learning
environments.

Indicators of achievement of
goal

4.2Establish and maintain

orderly
and workable routines to

Get students to write 5

activities that they enjoy
doing, then 5 that they
dont like. Create a list of
activities that the students
like a base classroom
activities on this list.
Set a routine that students
know and follow. Include
quite chat in routine along

with silent work.

create
an environment where
students
time is spent on learning
tasks.

Goal 4: Assess,
Provide Feedback and
report on students
learning.

5.2 Demonstrate an
understanding of the purpose
of providing timely and
appropriate feedback to
Students about their learning.

5.1 Demonstrate
understanding
of assessment strategies,
including informal and formal,
diagnostic, formative and
summative approaches to
Assess student learning.
Other aims you may have for the professional experience:

Provide written feedback

on marked work, not just
where students went
wrong but how they could
improve. Also provide
time to meet with
students.
Use many different
assessments types and
strategies to allow all
students with different
learning styles to achieve
good marks.

I really want to focus on building positive relationships with the students and staff, to
create a supportive network for students to learn in. Having a strong knowledge of the
students, how they learn and the content I am teaching will really help these
relationships.

Preservice Teacher ____________________________________________

Date ___________

Associate Teacher ____________________________________________

Date ___________

Subject Coordinator