Critical Reflection on Teaching Strategies

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Part 3:
Critical reflection on teaching strategies:
In order to improve the teaching strategies I will apply Professional Practice -
Standard four: create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments (Australian
Institute for Teaching and School Leadership. This would enhance the active participation of
the students. In order to ensure that effective learning takes place, I would like to apply five
lessons that were mentioned earlier. To do so it necessary to ensure that the students are
engaged in participation in the class activities that are undertaken. I used the strategy of
involving the students in different class activities. The implementation of the five-lesson plan
helped me to undertake effective strategies related to the quality of teachings undertaken.
This can be termed as a planned pedagogy. I played a YouTube video on persuasive writing
that includes introduction and conclusion. I explained it to the children and I arranged for an
interactive session with the students. I taught them to write a proper introduction and
conclusion. I concentrated on having a discussion with the students on whatever I taught
them. I made proper plans before so that a proper feedback session can be provided to the
students about their performance. I decided to conduct this plan in all the five lessons. In
lesson, two I decided to teach the students the use of emotive language. I did this with the
help of some examples. I distributed the work sheets to the children and further worked on
their persuasiveness. I initiated an environment of competition among the students. This
initiated the interest of knowing the lessons more properly as it increased their concentration.
At the same time, I took care of the fact that the environment is not harmful for the students.
This included providing better opportunities to the students to participate in competition and
gain experience required for future career growth. At the same time, bullying from other
children was also prevented so that the children feel safe to work in the environment. The

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children are provided with encouragement and motivation to perform better in the education
environment.
Concentration in teaching is an important aspect (Dang & Dearholt 2017). I further
concentrated on teaching them the process of writing the rebuttal paragraph. I did it by
showing them many examples on the interactive white board. I tried them to give the main
points that they needed to know. In order to make the class more interactive I used the digital
form of education. I made the students explain with the help of a projector on the white
board. I managed to provide them with a written note that would be easier for them to refer
once they reach home. I had thought of adopting this strategy so that effective learning
experience can be provided to the children. Apart from this, I planned an evaluation process
in order to test the skills of the children and to extract the things that were learned by the
students. I further designed some presentation on my laptop in order to make the students
understand about the different types of referencing style. I initially showed them the
examples on my laptop. As stated by Arnold and Boggs (2015) referencing is a crucial part
for denoting the authenticity of a written assignment. Therefore, I tried to teach the students
all the forms of referencing that are commonly used. Initially I provided the students with an
example of referencing and then encouraged them to undertake the process on their own
while providing assistance in case they make mistakes. It made easier for the students to
access the website and to have a practical understanding of the way to do referencing. The
student clarify any problems with me such as problems while conducting the referencing.
While the students looked at the website, we practiced the referencing style together. After
the session, I took a test of referencing where I divided the test into two halves, one is the
practical test and the other is the theory test. This would motivate the students to perform
better and extract the materials in a better way. The final activity I followed was conducting a