Description Rationale / Justification

(At least 2 rationales/justifications needed + Academic Literature)

Goal 1 Improve behavior management during transitions I want to develop my classroom management especially the
inside and outside the classroom (transitions between behavior management during transitions for two reasons. First
the activities, transitions from the classroom to the because in the previous teaching practices I faced difficulties in
playground and bathroom, and back to the classroom). dealing with misbehaved students during transitions, so I want to
learn more about managing behavior. Second, I want to learn
TP Competency Managing learning (classroom management – behavior behavior management not only for me to see my students well
management) managed, but also for my students to learn how to be more
organized and manage their behavior and be independent from their
Action 1 Improve managing behavior during transitions using childhood until they grow up, so they will not face difficulties in
these strategies: the future. For example, if children learned how to ask the teacher
for permission before moving (going to the bathroom) they will be
- Moving from the carpet to the corners by calling their
more disciplined since this age which means they will be more
names one by one with singing. For example: where is
respectful. According to Angele Passe, “Making the transition into
Mohammed, where is Mohammed? You can go, you
kindergarten is a significant and exciting milestone in young
can go.
children’s lives. With proper coordination and planning, it can be a
- Moving from the classroom to the smooth process, benefiting children, families and schools” (Passe,
playground/bathroom by asking the boys and girls to n.d.). Learning strategies to help students move smoothly from an
make two lines. area to another is not easy and it needs patience. I will keep
- Transitions from the activities to the carpet by using improving myself until I know the best way and it is fine because
a bell to grab their attention, and they know they have even teachers make mistakes so I will keep on till I improve it. If
to tidy up and sit on the carpet even if they didn’t something didn’t work well I will keep on trying new things.
finish their work.

Time frame Within seven weeks.

Support needed - I will ask the teacher to support me by taking pictures

and videos of me while implementing the strategies.
 - I will use materials such as bell and singing songs.

How will you

provide evidence
- Taking pictures and videos of me implementing the
of the success of
action.
the action
- MST’s observations and notes.

Evidence Transitions from the classroom to the

(After implementation) assembly/playground. The teacher asks children to
make two lines of boys and girls, and they have to
put their hands to make a space between each
other. The students who
are misbehaving during
transitions like pushing
his/her friends, the teacher
asks him/her to stand in
the back of the line.

Reflection During this semester, I have improved in behavior management during transition more than before. In the previous
(What happened because semesters, it was hard for me to manage misbehavior during transition from the classroom to the
of this action?) playground/theater/assembly/ school’s cinema and coming back to the class. In this class, the Arabic teacher
doesn’t have a strategy to let them make two lines for boys and girls, but I tried to us my own strategy, and I make
 voice louder and say line up boys and girls and they know that they have to make two lines of boys and girls. This
is about the transition from the classroom to another area inside the school. But the transition inside the classroom
especially from the circle time to the activities needs more improvement. The teacher in the classroom doesn’t have
a strategy for transition from the circle time to the activities and the corners, she just says the name of the students
that she wants them to do the activity in the group and the rest just move to the activities. These random moves
might be dangerous for children because some of them push each other. So I tried to use my own strategy, which is
asking each line to stand up, turn and walk to the corners. Although it was hard to make them get used with this
strategy, but I tried to make them know that they have to be disciplined when they move from a place to another
even inside the classroom. When I used my strategy to move from the circle time to the corners by calling the lines
(this line, stand up, and go to the corners) some students didn’t listen to me and they went to the corners before I
call their line, but in the next teaching practice I will try to make them get used more from the first lesson that I
teach them.

Reference:
Passe, A. S. (n.d.). The Importance of Transition for Children’s Success. Retrieved from Fairfax Futures: http://www.fairfax­
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 Description Rationale / Justification
(At least 2 rationales/justifications needed + Academic Literature)

Goal 2 Improve my lesson plans

This semester, I want to improve my planning because in the
TP Competency Planning for Learning
previous semesters, I had some notes from my MSTs to improve
my planning more. One of them said that I need to provide
Action 2 - To plan for a lesson I need to do lesson plans well.
alternative activities if one activity didn’t work well. Also, I need
Before implementing any lesson I have to do a plan at
to do one more activity for those who finish their activity quickly.
least one day before.
So I am willing to improve my planning for the lessons. Moreover,
- Use simple usable activities that suit children’s I want to learn about making weekly plans more, because it will
abilities, needs and within the time required to do the help me in the future as a teacher. We don’t have lesson plans only
activity. (short-term planning) we have also plans for a month, a term, and a
whole year (medium-long term planning). Another thing is that I
- Set learning objectives/outcomes that I want to
need to set achievable and realistic goals. For example, in the first
achieve.
 - Provide suitable materials for the whole lesson/week. three days of the week I want children to learn how to make the
sound of letter m and know how it looks like, and in the last two
- Do weekly/daily plans, and ask the teacher to help me
days they will learn how to write the letter with making its sound.
in medium-term and long-term plans.
We can’t let them learn everything at once. According to Ministry
of Education, Guyana, “Part of classroom planning is developing
Time frame Within seven weeks.
effective plans. A good lesson plan includes an objective or goal,
the steps of the lesson, the expected outcome and room to make
Support needed - The teacher can help me by taking pictures and
changes along the way” (Ministry of Education, Guyuna, n.d.)
videos of me implementing the lessons.
- The teacher can evaluate me.

How will you - I will use the documents of the lesson plans.
provide evidence
- Ask the teacher to evaluate my teaching through
of the success of
observations and taking notes, and using the evaluation
the action
sheet

Evidence Planning for lessons. Using specific and suitable

learning outcomes to child’s needs. Use more activities
(After
rather than worksheets.
implementation)

Reflection
(What happened
because of this
action?)
Improving my lessons plans was a goal for this semester
teaching practice. In the previous semesters, I did many
lesson plans that included differentiation activities for
each level (emerging-developing-mastering) which was
good to make an activity according to each child’s ability,
but the problem is that in one lesson plan I had 3 or more
learning outcomes which is hard to focus on each in one
lesson because it is too broad. Now, I can make one
lesson that includes the three levels with one or two
learning outcomes. For example, students will be able to
count and write numbers from 1-10. This learning
outcome was suitable for the high and low level students.
The high level students had cards with different pictures
related to the story (the very hungry caterpillar) that was
read in the circle time like apples, strawberries, cakes,
and they have to count the things and write the number in
the space. For the low level students, they also had cards
of counting but they had three options underneath the
pictures and they had to use the clip to hang it under the
correct number. Another good thing is that the lesson
plans times were specific and I applied the lesson on the
time. My MST told me that the lesson plans that I did
were detailed, has all the information about what the
teacher is going to do and what the child is going to do, it
also included the assessments that I want to do for
children to assess their understanding. For the
assessments I used two for all the lessons that I did
during this semester teaching practice. The assessments
are checklists and asking questions through the lesson. Rationale / Justification
(At least 2 rationales/justifications needed + Academic Literature)
Goal 3 Use formative assessments in my daily teaching Rationale / Justification
(At least 2 rationales/justifications needed + Academic Literature) I
TP Competency Assessment - want to improve the formative assessment during this teaching
practice, because I didn’t use assessments before so I want to
Action 3 Use different strategies for formative assessments: knoe more about doing assessments. Assessments will help me
- Asking questions: asking children questions about the know about each child’ knowledge and level in learning. This
lesson will help me to know if children understood the will lead me to improve my teaching, modify my future lesson
lesson or not. For example, asking children what number plans and provide suitable activities for each child. I chose
is this? or how do we write letter S? and so on. formative assessments because it is more used in the
kindergarten than the summative assessment and because
- Using thumbs up and thumbs down flashcards for the formative assessment helps children improve in learning without
end of the lesson or even during the lesson. For example, grading their works (assessment for learning). According to Seth
asking them do you know what animals in this picture? Wagner, “formative assessments allow us to adapt instruction
And if they used thumb up it means they know the based on results, making modifications and improvements that
animal’s name and if it is thumb down it means they don’t will produce immediate benefits for our students’ learning”
know. At the end of the lesson the teacher can ask them (Wagner, 2015)
did you understand the lesson? And they can use to say
yes or no.
- Checklists are very beneficial and it makes us know
about each child’s learning and knowledge of a lesson.
Simple by asking the child a question like make the sound
of letter K, if he/she knows the teacher will put mark on
yes he/she knows and if he/she doesn’t know the teacher
 will put no.
- Observe students while doing activities and take notes.
- Document students’ works and review it at the end of
the day.

Time frame Within 8 weeks

Support needed I will need my MST’s help in making checklists and

asking students good questions.

How will you - Using the checklists.

provide evidence
- Taking pictures of students using flashcards
of the success of
the action - Notes that are taken while observing students work
during the class.

Evidence During this semester, I used checklists and asked

(After implementation) questions through the lesson to check on children’s
understanding. The checklist includes: the learning
outcomes, the names of the students and numbers 1,2,3.
Reflection In this semester teaching practice, I used different formative assessments in each lesson. We have learned about using
(What happened because formative and summative assessments before but I haven’t tried anything except asking questions to check children’s
of this action?) understanding. Using formative assessments was part of our lessons and we had to do it. For the early childhood we have to
use formative assessment, which is assessing for learning and it is not marked. In the kindergarten they use formative
assessment everyday. The teacher has checklists displayed on the wall of the classroom, she use it everyday after doing the
activities. Her checklist includes names of the students and numbers from 1 to 3, and she writes up what she wants to assess
them on. For me, I used checklists while children are doing the activities, observe them and when the child is doing the
activity correctly it means that he understood the activity and I tick on number 3. When the child knows how to some parts
but not the whole activity it means he/she needs improvement in a specific thing in the activity, for example, I have a child
that know how to count correctly but he don’t know the form of all the numbers, which means he needs improvement in
recognizing the forms of all the numbers from 1-10, this student will get 2/3. For the students who don’t know how to do the
activity, for example, a child who doesn’t know how to count and write numbers. This child needs more focus to improve his
abilities in counting first then writing the numbers. Through the observations and checklists the teacher can know what the
child needs to improve in and prepare activities based on this. I also asked different questions through the lessons o make
sure that children understood the information. The questions that I asked are while and after reading each story and at the end
of each lesson. For example when I read ‘brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?’ story, I was saying the names of ach
animal in the beginning but when I read it for the second time, I read it as a question and children responded ‘I see a blue
bird looking at me’, they were looking at the pictures and answering my question ‘what do you see?’. These questions to
make sure that children know the colors and the names of each animal.