TASK 8: Interview your mentor on the roles and responsibilities of a teacher

Roles &responsibilities	Questions to ask mentor	Comments
Planning	- How do you plan your lessons? - Do you differentiate your plans? - Do you plan weekly or daily? - Do you plan individually or in a group?	Each month we have a different theme. The AMTs and EMTs get together and plan for the theme; we choose activities, objectives, create child-friendly objectives and resources for the theme. Weekly from then each individual teacher plans their lessons. As I teach two classes I integrate Numeracy, Literacy, and Science into 1 2 hour block each day. For Literacy, I plan using the Song of Sounds resource – which is the currently literacy program we are using. For numeracy I use the outcomes we have chosen and create hands-on activities for the children. Science is the same hands-on activities with teacher guided experiments. All lessons are differentiated, as is each activity, there are 3 leveled options at each center and then an open choice activity. Any child can choose to do any activity at a center, but there is differentiation. Some lessons are set up as a whole group, some small group and some (like focus group is individual), the grouping depends on what learning the children will have during the lesson – if I think they need people to discuss with then whole group will work best for example.
Pastoral	- How often do you meet parents? - What does your pastoral work involve?	We meet most parents at the start of the year; we then have the chance to invite them into our classrooms once a month to learn new strategies to use with their children. Each day I send to the parent WhatsApp group photos of what the children have done each day, ways they can help them at home and I tell them what sound the children have learnt.
Professional Development	- What PD do you do? -  How often do you have PD?	We have PD every Sunday and Monday from 1 pm till 2pm run by the school. The PDs are ADEC requirements that cover a range of topics that ADEC feels we need to know about. Every now and again there are workshops that teachers can attend especially when new resources are being bought out.
Class Management	- What do you need to manage your class? - How do you manage your class?  - Do you have any problems with class management?   - Which classroom rules do you use? Why?	I use lots of clapping patterns for classroom management. We have mandatory behavior charts in our classrooms that must be used during every lesson to display children who have worked well and children who need to work harder. I like to use a lot of praise for the children who are working well instead of negative comments for the children who are not. In my classes this year I have children who have personalities that clash and, therefore, they fight often in the classroom; some ways I have to try to stop this is by giving the children a self-assessment form which they use to monitor each other’s behavior and also a form that has individual goals on it and if they accomplish them at the given times throughout the day then they get a sticker on the behavior chart. Our classroom rules are use walking feet, use kind words, raise your hand and listen to your teachers. These rules are school wide and they link directly to the Approaches to Learning that we teach the children year wide.
Teaching Strategies	- What is your favorite teaching strategy? - What important strategies should we follow?	I like to use a student-centered approach - While teachers are an authority figure in this model, teachers and students play an equally active role in the learning process. The teacher’s primary role is to coach and facilitate student learning and overall comprehension of the material. Student learning is measured through both formal and informal forms of assessment, including group projects, student portfolios, and class participation. Teaching and assessment are connected; student learning is continuously measured during teacher instruction. I like the children to learn through play, and discovery using hands on activities.

TASK 7:Scientific resources in the Classroom

Discuss possibilities for implementing activities using these resources with your peer

A List of resources that target specific scientific skills and concepts in the school

Resources for Science teaching classroom:	Scientific Skill(s) / Concept(s) that can be developed with it.	Exploring on possible activities to develop mathematical skills and concepts using these materials
Magnets	- Help them to know that the magnet attracts only pieces of iron or other magnetic pieces. - The knowledge that magnet could be attraction or repulsion from each other, depending on the way alignment of the poles.	- Put a range of materials such as wood, iron, aluminum, plastic and let them test whether magnets can attract one of them, and therefore they will learn that the magnet attracts iron only. -Let them test to put magnet along each other and so they will learn that if the poles are alike will repel each other and if two different poles will attract each other.
Magnifying glasses	- Knowing that magnifying glass makes small things appear bigger than they are the reality. - When we put a magnifying glass in front of our eyes, our eyes look bigger.	-Put different sizes of objects in front of each student and make him/her test the magnifying glass whether the size of each object change, students will learn that the magnifying glass make the small stuff big.
Der rasselmatz	- Issued several different voices (oil  or juice or water - the sound of sand or salt - bell or a small ball, etc.). - Helps students to develop their hearing skill and quick thinking. - Knowledge the some similar sounds of things.	- Give each group consisting of five students Der rasselmatzand and ask what the sound that they hear, some of them will say, oil, water or juice which is things made mostly the same sound , and in another group will say  dust, salt or sugar, as well its things that are made the same sound, and thus the students will learn that some sounds are similar.
Balance	- How to balance things. - Heavy and light weight (water tray, juice, an empty tray, cubes, feathers, etc.).	- Give them different things and make them guess that thing light or heavy and make them try in the balance, to let them know if their guessing correct or wrong.

TASK 6:Mathematical resources in the Classroom

Discuss possibilities for implementing activities using these resources with your peer

List of resources that target specific mathematical skills and concepts in the school

Mathematical Resources found in the preschool classroom:	Mathematics Skill / Concept that can be developed with it.	Exploring on possible activities to develop mathematical skills and concepts using these materials
Pattern Blocks	- Helps them to improve their skills in counting. - Improving the skill of the students' imagination (construction, the formation of designs). - Teach geometric shapes (square, rhombus, trapezoidal, thin rhombus, triangle, hexagon). - Teach them the kinds of colors ( square orange, hexagon yellow, triangle Green, designated Blue, trapezoidal red, thin rhombus beige).	The teacher gives them printed pictures, for example, plane or train, and the students should put correct geometric shapes to form the desired shape, and helps them to knowledge new words, like ( train, plane,etc.) and the names of geometric shapes.
Lakeshore	-Teach them the numbers and how to write them (It is a wooden piece carved by the numbers and put inside a small iron ball and covered with a plastic  also its has magnet pen that the student can move the small ball to learn how to write a number). - Helps them to improve their skills in counting ( Move the small balls to into the numbers holes and put the balls according to the number ).	-The teacher gives each student  a Lakeshore board, a small white board, and pen after the student practiced at the number, he/she start to write it on the whiteboard on the same pattern and then they learn how to write the number. -After the students are practiced the counting the teacher giving them papers of figures 1-10 and star stickers and the  students begins counting and put stars according to  the number.
Cubes	- Helps them to improve their skills in counting. - Improving the skill of the students' imagination (construction, the formation of designs). - Teach them the kinds of colors ( orange, yellow, light green,  dark green, Blue, red, white, brown, etc). -Teaching them pattern colors (red, green, blue, white, red, green, blue, white, etc.).	- Give the students a numbers paper and they should connect the pieces together according to the number - Tell the students to a formation of the things they want and they will begin selecting colors and get to know them. - Give students a colored paper with four different colors in duplicate patterns, and ask them to repeat the pattern with cubes.
Numbers bean bags	- Helps them to improve their skills in counting. -Teach them the numbers and how to write them.	- Give the student numbers paper and they have to arrange numbers bean bags on the same arrange  and read the numbers.

TASK 5:Learning styles

Make notes about activities you observe in the classroom which use the learning styles below:

	Math	Science	Reading
Auditory	- Numbers song from 1-100. -Count with students at loud.	-Head, Shoulder, Knees &Toes exercise song. -Teach they body parts.	-Sounds song from A-Z.
Visual	-Watching the song video, which showing the numbers. -Watching the teacher's hands while she counting with them. -Count with them the lunch coins every morning.	-Watching the song video, which showing exercise dance for body parts. -Draw the face senses. -The teacher shows them a picture and teaches them the parts.	-Watching the song video, which show pictures for each letter. -Doing moves with every letter sound so the student can remember them.
Kinesthetic	-Give them numbers paper and  stars stickers, to put in each number. -Math center: numbers paper and connect the cubes as the numbers.	-Dance at the song and using their bodies through movement and rhythm. -Give them a paper to draw them self's.	-Choose a word start with any letter sound and draw it in a different colors then cut it, then show them how to it, at last let them make their own.

Answer the following questions:

·         Which learning styles did all the children seem to enjoy and why?

Sing sounds song because they seemed to enjoy to dance together and each student competes with his/her classmates  to show the teacher he/she is good in sounds song and that he/she knew all of them better than the others.

·         Why do you think the teacher incorporates a variety of learning styles for the children?

To Learn best and learning new materials reinforce and strengthens their knowledge retention.

·         Notice which activities are repeated with a variety of learning styles e.g. read a story, listen to a story, act the story, draw the story. Can you find other examples e.g. math or science.
                                        ( In the Table)

·         How can teachers improve student learning by using a range of learning styles?

Can be used the learning styles to help students to know their own preferences and strengths they have, as should give instructions to the students on develop strategies for success in the educational decisions of courses taught in ways that are contrary to the basic learning abilities.

TASK 4:Reframing Behavioural Characteristics

	Name of child	General behavioural characteristics	Reframed	Suggestions to help improve behaviour?
1	Khalid	He refuses to do morning exercises with his classmates  and his voice very low when he asking for something that he needs.	He may don't like the loud sounds and him kind of shy, also maybe he have a problem on him because sometimes he seemed don't hear the teacher.	Talk to him to see if received harassment from students, and try to find a solution, but if it was not the reason, in this case, we must communicate with his parents.
2	Hamdan	He always looking for problems, which like beating his classmates, also sometimes he is harassing them, as he sometimes does not listen to the teacher and breaking the rules.	He may want to take the people attention and show them that he is strong, also he want to show the teacher that he bigger than she treats him like a child.	Talk to him that what he is doing something shameful and it hurt the others, if that does not work, we should punish him and the last warning is contact with his parents.
3	Jamil	He always pretending that he has been hit from one of the students from the other classroom, and he begins continuous representation and as its real.	He may want to have the teacher attention and her interest.	Talk to him that lying is not a good thing, if it continues we should just ignore and indifference to him and he will stop from his self.

Task3: Discover and learn how student think and learn

Class List for Class: KG2 A and B   MENTOR Name: Hayley
	Name / Photo of Child / Age	Student profile (Learning styles, interests and areas of concern)
1	Mahra KG2 A	She is the good listener to the teacher and she loves to show to her that she is good at singing sounds song, also she is a good follower for classroom rules. she loves to read stories, especially stories of princesses and like the activity which is given by the teacher in the creativity center, but she don't like when the teacher puts her in focus group because she sees others playing while she is studying.
2	Omar KG2 B	He is good at playing in all centers, especially in the Science center because he finds himself that he is good on it, he also good listener to the teacher and he follow the classroom rules and cooperate with his classmates, but he is not good at communicating and talking to them he is shy a little bit and his voice low.
3	Hessa KG2 B	She is good at knowing what the teacher tell her, she also good at doing activities, and writes the daily homework, but she is not good at following classroom rules sometimes, and speak with her classmates during the lesson and she call the teacher name too much.
4	Sanad KG2 A	He is good at mathematical games that require movement, which always outside the classroom, as he likes to play in the imaginative play center because he likes to represent the role of another person and he does not like to sit in front of the computer because the educational games where boring for him, He also very wondering about many things and he like exploration.
5	Aseel KG2 B	Aseel good at attention to the teacher since the class start and follow the classroom rules, also she good at using the tools in the Mathematics center well, but she is not a well communicating with her classmates, especially the boys because they're always harassing the girls so she prefers to be still away from them. Aseel not good at attending to school, so she misses some lessons.