Reflective Practice in Professional Conversations for PGCE Secondary Placement
Prepare for your professional conversation by reflecting on three consecutive lessons, showcasing teaching progression and impact on student progress. Consider questions on planning, delivery, student well-being, and professional development. Engage with your UWE tutor to discuss successes, areas for improvement, and application of training.
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End of Placement Professional Conversation: January 2022 PGCE Secondary: Placement A
Brief: Select and reflect on a series of (approximately 3) consecutive lessons Prepare some supporting evidence to demonstrate how you have progressed your teaching in these lessons. Talk about these lessons (referring to evidence) for 10 minutes in 1:1 a professional conversation with your UWE tutor during which you will consider: Why you felt these lessons were particularly successful. What you would do differently if you were to deliver the lessons again. What impact you have had on student progress and how you know.
When? Where? How? Your UWE Subject tutor will be in touch to organise a mutually convenient time in the coming weeks and before the end of Placement A All professional conversations will be undertaken online. Please consider this if you are preparing to share documents. Mentors & Senior mentors may help with preparation but are not required to attend.
The Professional Conversation: Preparation The aim of the Professional Conversation is to reflect on your development as a trainee teacher so far and how this is expressed through the lessons you have selected therefore to prepare you could consider: Your progress against SMART targets; Any wider school activities, e.g. liaising with parents or other members of staff, involvement in staff meetings and training. Any self-directed CPD, such as studying resources and curriculum guides Your Subject Knowledge profiles and subject specialism Developing your knowledge and skills of remote teaching, including the practicalities and strategies to engage children and improve their learning. The UWE Tutor will ask some straightforward questions to help explore your progress against the Teachers Standards.
What sorts of questions might be asked? Can you tell me what you understand about: -planning? delivering a lesson (remote, synchronous, asynchronous, in person? -supporting children s wellbeing, including the most vulnerable? -how have you adapted to the school s management of lockdown? In what ways have you been proactive to seek opportunities for teaching and assessment? How do you know that children are making progress? What sort of evidence might you be looking for as a teacher? What knowledge and skills from your training have you applied to your practice? Which areas of the Teachers Standards have you developed? What have you learnt about yourself as the teacher ? What does being professional mean to you? Which parts of the standards are you- Strongest at currently? How do you know? a. Currently working on? How will you do this? b. Wanting to work on in your next placement? How will you do this? c.
Any tips? Evidence can be drawn from any information/paperwork from your placements, university time, work during lockdown Ask your mentors to support and discuss preparations during a meeting. Be analytical not descriptive Relax- this is about you and becoming the best teacher you can.. and you know you best! This is intended as a supportive process to help your transition to studies and your next placement. We do not learn from experience .we learn from reflecting on experience -John Dewey
