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PERSONAL STATEMENT AND EXPERIENCE
I am a professional, committed, qualified teacher who hopes to build on the experience I have
gained through my BEd and work placements to date
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To date I have had much experience working closely with children
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My experience to date has been varied regarding the nature of my training and employment
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This change meant that I had to
quickly adapt to a new curriculum and a new style of teaching from which I had been trained
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This change has
definitely broadened my mind in regard to a range of teaching styles
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Teaching Special Educational
Needs (SEN) children is something that I have done on many occasions
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I was involved in maintaining
paperwork for children on SEN+ for their annual review and meeting their parents/guardians
to structure a plan for development
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For example, I have taught children with ADHD, behavioural
issues, Autism, Cystic Fibrosis and Downs Syndrome in the mainstream
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Due to the nature of these
issues I have had to differentiate lessons accordingly
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Throughout my experience I have assisted in developing Physical Education in a whole
school context
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During my stint as PE coordinator I was
able to successfully set up a means of assessment for all classes in all key areas in the PE
curriculum and I was given the responsibility to spend the relevant PE funding allocated to
my school which was in excess of £6,000
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As well as developing the PE within a
school context I also helped to boost participation at Sainsbury’s level two competitions in
Manchester
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On top of this I
organised all of the afterschool sports activities within the school and managed a football and
a Gaelic team myself after school
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In doing this I set up
a sports council to assist and monitor these activities, the aim which was to empower the
children to have a say in what they wanted for the school
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In addition, I have had much experience in teaching children with English as an additional
language (EAL children)
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This was therefore apparent in both classes that I taught
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Half-way through my NQT year a Polish child
joined my class having just migrated
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I set up links with a polish
classroom assistant and got this child one to one time out of class for specific maths/basic
literacy lessons
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On top of this I used simple word games, which I taught other children in the
class how to use, to help promote the spoken English language of this child
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An example of this was when I created digital books (class project)
for a topic 'Myths and Legends' and created Keynote presentations on WAU topics
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I also used ICT for many other reasons such
as accelerated reading and internet research for topic work
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This year, every child in my class has
an iPad and I believe teaching through ICT engages the children in ways that a pencil and
paper often can’t
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Assessment procedures in KS2, is an area that I can relate to quite easily from my experience
to date
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For
reading, writing and maths the children were then given levels to check how much they had
progressed that year
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In my experience since I have returned to Northern Ireland I have
administered NFER tests to primary 5 children and NRITT tests to primary 6 children
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As I believe
children should be fully aware of their own learning I have used personal targets as another
means of assessment
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Achievement of these targets is then celebrated through a reward
system
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I have introduced a traffic light system where
each child in my class has a coloured cup (red, amber and green)
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I have also used
differentiated questioning during lesson time and a red, amber, green book stack so that
children can show me visually (by which pile/stack they choose) how they feel about meeting
their learning intention
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There
have been times in my career that I have had to report and log incidents in a professional
manner
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To conclude, I feel that I am well equipped to work with children through the training that I
have received
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I have worked closely with many staff to create and
develop many plans for the ultimate benefit of the children that we teach
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I am as keen as ever to learn more to help me fully understand how
children grow and learn in my care
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