Professional Competency 3

Plan teaching and learning situations.

Design and plan teaching and learning activities and situations that are appropriate for the students, the learning content and the education objectives.

Third Field Experience: Georges P. Vanier Elementary School

Aug to Dec 2022

At the beginning of my field experience, I took the time to review the QEP, the Progression of Learning, and the workbooks bought by the students’ parents. This research reactivated my own prior knowledge on the curriculum, it gave me a global understanding of the level students should be at, and it allowed me to prepare for the content I was about to teach. 

In addition, I added to the workbook external resources for activities and lessons that took into account student needs and diversity in learning situations. As an example, I prepared a lesson for my third formative that incorporated capitalization and punctuation rules with kinetic learning. As I noticed that some of my students had different needs relating to grammar rules that should already be acquired, I added some review for that, while connecting with a different type of learning style. 

I also did not shy away of complementing to the workbook some resources that were more inclusive of student diversity. As an example, in all model dialogues in the workbook, characters were addressed only as he or she. I made it a point to create more characters and use they/them as their pronouns. Without explicitly telling students that the character’s pronouns were they/them, I implicitly presented to students the use of gender-neutral pronouns and encouraged them to use those.  

Finally, throughout my field experience, I assessed students’ level in English and supported those who were not at the desired proficiency for their level. I offered remediation and prepared extra documents for them to enrich their vocabulary and practice grammar.