In this section, I have included my best practices in the school. I uploaded the lesson plans I have taught for grade three in Al andalus primary School and their reflections. Also, the materials and resources I used for the activities and the assessment tools that where used with purpose of evaluate students learning. Moreover, the used strategies of implementing learning, managing and planning for learning were uploaded as well.
Teaching Practice Setting
AL Andalus Girls Primary School
AL Andalus Primary Girls School, a government school located in Sharjah in Al Qouz area near Wasit police station. The school has above 100 faculty and more than 500 students from Emirates nationality. The school teaches from grade 1 mixed genders and to grade 4. I was teaching five sections in grade three students English subject. The classrooms are structured in a very warm, wide, and friendly atmosphere. The total of the students that I taught in the elementary were 128 students. Each classroom accommodates from 25 to 27 students. Among the sections, there were more than 15 students who are considered as high levels and the rest considered middle and low. I was teaching 30-period per week and a maximum of 5 lessons each day. The students were friendly, and they love to interact and communicate with each other. Once, I gave them the activities I really notice how they engage and collaborate with each other to complete them. I was very glad to teach them, and I really enjoyed the whole duration of the teaching practice in AL Andalus School.
Commitment to Professionalism
3 - Participating in duties across the school (supervising on canteen and grade two sections)
2- Attending the assembly and organizing the students in the lines
1- Arriving to school on time and welcoming the students
4 - Helping my mentor teacher in marking students exams
Attendance sheet
Monitoring students during the assembly
Supervising the students during the break
Marking grade 3 spelling test
Planning for Learning
Lesson plan
Making Questions
Lesson plan
Long and Short e-ea vowel
Lesson plan
Making Rules
Lesson plan
Spider Facts
Managing Learning
This chart was used to motivate the students to complete their books, participate in the class, and behave well.
Behaviour Chart for groups
The behavior chart was utilized to control the students in the groups and to ensure appropriate behaviors. The yellow face represent the good behaviors when they answer or do something good.
Sticker chart
Implementing Learning
I implemented different sets of activities in order to empower students' engagement. I used a different set of materials that aid students' cognitive development. Each lesson has different utilized tools and materials which are aligned with the learning objectives. Hence, performing would be rich and solid toward learning.
Effective hands-on materials and resources were used for the lessons
Spider facts lesson
Students worked individually to create a spider puppet using wool, wooden sticks, googly eyes, and cut circles.
Rules in Park lesson
Flash cards used to teach the students the new vocbs for this lesson.
Butterfly life cycle lesson
Students worked in a group to arrange the butterfly growth phases using glue, artificial leaves, markers, googly eyes, cardboard, printed caterpillar and crok balls.
Facts about trees lesson
Students worked in pairs to discuss how the parts of a tree help the people such as the leaves and the woods. They wrote all the facts using colored circles, glue, wooden sticks, colors, and a printable tree template.
Making questions lesson
Students worked in pairs to form questions using the lesson keywords. To implement this activity, they used colored strips, printable clouds, glue, googly eyes, and markers.
Interactive slides were created to support students learning and provide an explicit explanation of the lessons.
The PowerPoint was used to demonstrate the differences and the smilirites of spiders and other insects
The PowerPoint was used to describe the way of making questions
The PowerPoint were used to demonstrate the short (e)
The PowerPoint explain how to make rules and signs using must not and can
Students implemention of the activites
 The students were working on arranging the butterfly life cycle phases. |  The students rais the neutral face if the word with a short (e) vowel, and the smiley face if its with long (e) vowel. |
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 The students were writing sentences about rules using we can and we mustn't. |  The students were placing the words that contain the vowel (e) sound in the treasure whereas the words that doesn't have sound vowel (e) in the bin. |
 The students were creating a spider puppet. |  The students were working on classifying the words that have long or short (e) vowels in the correct pocket. |
Assessment
KWL Chart
KWL charts were used as an assessment for learning at the beginning, middle, and end of the lesson to check understanding and knowledge about the insects and spiders.
Observation Checklist
Checklists were used as assessment for learning to monitor students interactions and recording notes about their progression.
Self assessment
Self-assessments were used as a formative assessment which allowed students to be responsible and independent about their learning. Also its provided me with intensive data about their performance, attitude, and behavior.
Reflection on Practice
The strengths during this teaching practice were:
Implementing a variety of activities that suit students' abilities. Many tools were used to support their learning such as interactive videos and PowerPoints, meaningful materials as well. Incorporating collaborative learning through applying think, pair, share strategy, where students were communicating and discussing each other. Thus, developing skills and comprehensions in students. According to Vygotsky's theory of ZPD, students can achieve more if they get support and guidance from peers. Thus, students will be able to observe practical skills and knowledge.
The weaknesses during this teaching practice were:
Insufficient use of English during writing and talking.
Using Arabic more than English to deliver the lesson to the class.
Differentiation of multiple learnings needs
Instructions were not clear enough for some of the students.
Absence of adequate Examples which led to misconceptions.
Practice improvements
Design lessons based on students styles of learning.
Assess students by using effective formative assessments.
Adjust lessons content to meet students' needs.
Create safe learning through managing behaviors and classroom.
Group students by shared interest and topics.