Daniella Porcaro 3rd Year Professional Experience Report 2014

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1 REPORT
30th June 15th August 2014

Pre-service Teacher Daniella Porcaro
School
Kilkenny Primary
Mentor Teacher
Paul Roeger
Student ID: 2093075
Year Level: Years 2/3
School Co-ordinator Tanya Pojer
University
Liaison
Tracey Grice
Number of days completed

School Context
School Sector, size and composition
of campus. (R-12, Area, Primary).
Particular features or characteristics.
Students
Coordinator
Dr Barbara Nielsen
25 Days
Please add a brief context statement about your school
The class is a year 2/3 consisting of 22 children. There are 12 girls

and 10 boys. Majority of class is year 2 (14), year 3 (8). Children
come from diverse cultural backgrounds. The children are grouped
according to ability rather than year levels.
Summary Statements: Classroom Teacher/Mentor
Professional Relationships
Comments
Professional &Collegial Learning

Teachers actively engage in personal
and collegial learning within the
professional community
Daniella attended both staff meetings and year level (Learning

Community) meetings. She has observed other classes in
particular the upper primary special class. Daniella has asked
relevant questions and engaged in conversations with staff.
Learner Respect
Teachers foster trusting and
respectful relationships with all
learners
Daniella has maintained very good relationships with the children.

She has been mindful of their learning and respectful to the
differing needs of the children in the class.
Parent/caregiver & Community

Partnerships
Teachers work effectively with
parents/caregivers and the wider
community
Daniella has a very happy and easy approach and has confidently
introduced herself to parents and engaged in conversations with
them. She has listened to them and has been able to respond to
their needs.
Professional Knowledge
Comments
Learning Processes
Teachers know about learning
processes and how to teach and
implement
Daniella has been very aware of the learning processes and has
been an avid learner herself. She has listened, asked questions
and acted upon advice. Daniellas lessons have shown
development and given proper scaffolding to help the students be
engaged.
Learning Content
Teachers know the content they
teach
Daniella has written lesson plans and has eagerly shared her
ideas to ensure that the lesson content is appropriate and followed
a meaningful progression. She has willingly listened to advice and
absorbed that advice into her lessons.
Learner Context
Teachers know about learner
contexts and diversity
Lessons have catered for the many differing learning levels of the
students. Daniella has used many resources available including
SSOs and teaching staff. She has assessed the childrens work
and designed and grouped the children according to their ability.
Professional Practice
Comments
Planning & Teaching

Teachers plan and implement
teaching strategies for successful
learning experiences
Daniella has planned her lessons well in advance and has talked
through her ideas with me. She has asked questions of me and
herself and made changes where relevant. She has varied her
strategies explicit, small group, exploratory, questioning etc. Use
of resources has been suitable for the interest and age of the
children.
Feedback & Reporting

Teachers assess and report learning
outcomes
Daniella has constantly assessed her lessons. She has talked

about her lessons with me and listened to advice. Daniella has
also asked herself questions when self- assessing. As a result
changes have been made when necessary.
Learning Environment
Teachers create a safe, challenging
and supportive learning environment
Daniella has been consistent with the children and has always
spoken to the children in a soft caring manner. Her manner has
helped to create a relaxed, safe and calm feel to the classroom.
The children have been challenged within the lessons but yet
Daniella has given the support and scaffolding to allow the
children to succeed.
PRE-SERVICE TEACHER COMMENT
The 5 weeks spent with Paul and his class have been invaluable for me as a developing teacher. I
observed a range of different teaching strategies and behaviour management techniques, and was
supported to implement these in my own teaching. I am also able to clearly identify how listening to the
feedback and advice that I was given has improved my lessons. I now have experience in planning and
delivering entire units of work, and am infinitely more confident in my ability to relate to and engage a
large group of children with varying needs (as previously I have only worked with small groups or
individuals). I not only feel ready, but extremely excited, for my final practicum.
Date: 16/08/14
Summary Statement: School Coordinator
Daniella had shown a willingness to further her knowledge of teaching strategies in order to create
a successful learning environment for the students in Red 1. She has become more confident and
is prepared to try new approaches to ensure successful learning outcomes for all students. I wish
her all the best in her teaching career.
Date:18/8/14
Summary Statement: University Liaison
Daniella has demonstrated that she is an outstanding pre-service teacher. She thoroughly
prepared for lessons taking account of students prior learning and needs. Her lessons reflected an
inquiry approach, used engaging provocations to provoke student curiosity and the use of hands on
equipment and ICTs. She was explicit with instructions and used the gradual release of
responsibility model to scaffold students for success. Daniella used a range of strategies to gain
and maintain student attention; of particular note was her use of positive reinforcement strategies.
Daniella developed respectful relationships with the students and they responded well to her
positive, enthusiastic manner. She was highly organised and managed the demands of the
classroom with confidence and ease. Daniella displayed professionalism and a strong work ethic
well beyond the expectations of that expected of a pre-service teacher. She will continue to make
a significant impact to the students she teaches in the future.
Congratulations on an outstanding practicum Daniella.
Date: 18/8/14
OVERALL ASSESSMENT
To be agreed by the Mentor Teacher and the University Liaison
In our opinion, the pre-service teachers performance on this Professional Experience has been:
Satisfactory
Not Satisfactory
And she is ready to undertake the final Professional Experience next year.
Please keep an electronic copy of this report and forward it to the University Liaison who will
ensure that the completed report is emailed to the Professional Experience Office.

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1 REPORT

30th June 15th August 2014

Student ID: 2093075

Year Level: Years 2/3

School Co-ordinator Tanya Pojer

Number of days completed

The class is a year 2/3 consisting of 22 children. There are 12 girls

Professional &Collegial Learning

Daniella attended both staff meetings and year level (Learning

Daniella has maintained very good relationships with the children.

Parent/caregiver & Community

Planning & Teaching

Feedback & Reporting

Daniella has constantly assessed her lessons. She has talked

PRE-SERVICE TEACHER COMMENT

To be agreed by the Mentor Teacher and the University Liaison

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