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Post by Karen- Assessor on Apr 15, 2014 14:03:42 GMT
Hi Everyone, what a fantastic resource! You can use this tool to network with all your fellow candidates. Those of you who have attended a workshop will appreciate how good it is to discuss and share ideas. Use this forum in the same way. Ask questions that have troubled you. (Relating to STL level 2 obviously). Share good practice, experience with each other.
I'm going to start you off, just the other week I was observing in a school, when I arrived the TA was in a panic because the teacher had completely changed the lesson plan at the last minute. How would you cope if this happened to you? What would you do about all the hard work you put into your planning and preparation/ Would you feel you had to start again? How would you cope with your lesson observation? Would you ask the Assessor to reschedule or would you go ahead anyway?
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Post by alex6 on May 17, 2014 19:00:10 GMT
This happened to me back when I had my level 2 observation. We had discussed the plan, the children in the group and I had written my plan accordingly. I turned up to work on the day, I was working as a one to one at the time so at least that child was on my plan!, My teacher wished me luck and I had half an hour to worry, stress, decide this is not for me and cancel anyway due to complete breakdown of any knowledge of how to actually stay in control in any school situation... of course this was just internal and hopefully I managed to maintain some semblance of calm externally, although maybe not... turns out my one to one child had the worst day ever and I had to remove him from the group and ultimately felt like a complete failure, maybe he picked up on my inner turmoil, who knows, but back to the point.
So while waiting for my observation there appeared to be no surprises, I knew what I was doing... but then during the carpet time the teacher explained the activity differently to how we had discussed, and I had planned for, and even worse at the end of the carpet session, when the activity was introduced, the teacher says 'such and such will be working on that table and such and such will be here...'
Do you know what happens then... as she reels off the names of the children I am working with I realise that she has changed the children, and in my plan I had used information I knew about the children and had written in-depth about the challenges theses particular children might face and how I would deal with it. By this point my assessor had arrived and I was about to have a meltdown!
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