School of Education

102605 Secondary Professional Practice Community Engagement

Report
Pre-service Teacher’s Name: Nathan Gardiner Pre-service 18037454
Shannon 16570245
Teacher’s ID:
Professional Experience Session: From: 27/8/2018 To: 18/09/2018
Name of Educational
BLAXLAND HIGH SCHOOL
Setting:
Number of Hours 63
Supervisor’s Name/s: SHARON LAURENCE
Description of Educational Setting:
Blaxland High School is comprehensive 7 – 12 high school located in the lower Blue Mountains. It has a population of … with
total number of senior students equalling …

At Blaxland High school the practicum students will mainly act as ‘tutors’ to our stage 6 students and maybe required to:
1. Work with individual or small groups of students
2. Address curriculum needs:
a. Academic writing: looking at 3 areas CONTENT, LANGUAGE, STRUCTURE
3. Exam preparation:
a. Responding to multiple-choice, short answer and extended response questions.
b. Looking at verbs and other identifiers in short/extended response questions
c. Revision techniques e.g. concept maps, Lotus diagrams, syllabus dot points
4. Working with L&ST teacher to tutor students Y7 – 10 in essay writing

To be supervised by BHS Teacher Librarian – in negotiation with KLA Head Teachers and staff AND BHS Practicum
coordinator.
Summary Comments:

Nathan performed the duties of ‘tutor’ to an exceptional level. He was able to demonstrate the ability to liaise with the teaching
staff in order to understand individual student learning needs and identified faculty issues relating to student writing. Nathan
was able to then employ this knowledge when tutoring BHS students.

Examples of ‘stage 6 tutoring’ performed by Nathan include paragraph and essay structure (PEEL/CEEL and ALARM);
responding to preliminary/HSC exam questions e.g. short and extended response; verb analysis and application (decoding
essay/exam questions); Syllabus analysis i.e. dot points, verb usage, requirements; preparing revision sequences; revision
techniques using concept maps, lotus diagrams, use of palm/question cards.

Examples of stage 4/5 tutoring included participation in MULTILIT roll call; assisting students with identified learning support
requirements – disability provisions; assisting with research for assignments.

Nathan offered insightful observations about the necessity to include modeled reading and writing practice into day to day
teaching of students in a classroom situation. Thus the program offered Nathan the opportunity to reflect on his future teaching
practice. The LAST and teachers’ aides at BHS where appreciative of Nathan’s assistance, making very complimentary comments
about his attitude and manner.

Final Grade: x Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Supervisors Signature: Date: 18/09/2018

Pre-service Teacher’s Signature: Date:

WSU Co-ordinator’s Signature: Date: