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• Nada Arif
• H00328552
• ECE 3703
My Personal & Professional Background

• Welcome to the Kindergarten, I am Ms. Nada Al Khaja and I am the student teacher in your child’s

classroom and I am going to teach English, Math, & Science to their class for this year.

• I am studying currently on Higher Collage of Technology to be a future teacher and to teach early childhood

students. I studied education of early childhood to teach KG students and that because I love children and I

like to teach them, teaching students in their first years is so important, in the same time it is easy. I went to

many schools some of them were private schools and some of them government schools in UAE, they let us

go to different schools to practice and learn how to teach, also to let us see the differences between the

private schools and the government schools.

• I accepted any comments or if you want to discuss about your child’s level and his grade. Please feel free to

send me a massage or an email to my contact information below:

• Phone number: 050 4883383

• Email: H00328552@hct.ac.ae

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 My Teaching Philosophy
• I believe that children can learn through play “According to Piaget (1969) play is a way for children to unify

experiences, knowledge and understanding” (Theories surrounding learning through play, 2016). When the

child learn through play, it will develop many skills in his body such as; physical, social, emotional, and

cognitive skills. According to Vygotsky “considered play to be important for an individual’s cognitive

development” (Theories surrounding learning through play, 2016). And developing their skills in this age is so

important, learning through playing will develop their language and communication skills with other children.

• In my teaching experience, I believe that teacher should always help the students to develop their skills, and

making learning activities and centers that will encourage them to learn. If the students love the teacher they

will learn more and the teacher will know how to deal with them. The main and important thing is the effective

relationship between the teacher and the parents, if the teacher create a good relationship with the parents she

will understand and have background about each child abilities such as; social, emotional, cognitive, and

physical abilities. Teacher should work on this abilities for the students with the parents, if there are skills that

should improved it should be at school and at home.

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 My Overall Expectation
• From you as a parents, I expect to have flexible, good, and easy relationship with you

and contact always together to help your child’s education. I am expecting from you to

attend the parents meetings always, because this will help me as a teacher to know more

about your child, and this will help me to know which skills they should develop and

also with your helping on home. By attending the parents meeting you will know about

your child’s level in the school. I will be happy if you help your child at home and let

him always practice on the lessons that they take it daily, and to do their home works.

• I expect from the children in my classroom to learn and understand the lesson that I am

teaching them, I always will make a review for all the lessons and doing practices during

the lesson so they understand. Moreover, I am going to use some strategies that will help

me to let the students focus on the lesson such as; the reward system. If the students give

me their attention in the lesson and did their practices they will learn fast and learning

will be easier for them.

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 My Classroom Management Strategies
• I am using some strategies for the classroom management which is the most important thing for each

teacher in the classroom. “Classroom management refers to the wide variety of skills and techniques that

teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive

during a class.” (Classroom Management, 2014). Classroom management helps teachers in the classroom

to let the students be organized and focusing with her for the duration of the lesson, that’s why I am using

some strategies to manage my classroom. First strategy I use is making different tones of my voice, this

strategy help the teacher to take the student’s attention to her. Second strategy, if I ask them question and

they start talking together and making noise I raise my hands and put my other hand to my mouth so they

understand that they should raise their hands to speak. Third strategy is to make a reward system that

always work with the KG students, such as; making a table with their name and give them happy or sad

face and that encourage them to be good in the classroom. Fourth strategy is using the routine and teach

them how is the routine of the class, this make teaching easier and manage the classroom a lot.

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 My Key Assessment Strategies

• I am using different kinds of strategies for the assessments that I do it at the end of each lesson. I am

using open-ended questions that let them talk and this strategy help the students a lot to develop

their social skills. Also, to develop their social skills and at the same time I use it as an assessment I

let each two students share and talk to each other about what they have learned today from the

lesson and listening to them. Another strategy I use is the checklist with their names, I can use the

checklist even at the activities time or at the end of the lesson and it help me a lot as a teacher to

know the abilities of each student and what they have learned in the lesson specifically. I am asking

the students at least 3 times in the lesson to make sure that they understand the lesson clearly.

Sometimes I am using a movement activity for the closing the lesson so for example: they can move

and find the letter on the classroom so if they find it correctly that’s mean that they understand what

I taught them.

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 Communication with Parents
• There are different ways that I am going to communicate by it with parents and the parents can
communicate with me to discuss and know about their child and his level in the school.

• Parents can communicate with me by:

• Class Dojo Application which is the best way to connects the teachers, parents, and the students to
each other. They can share photos, videos, and messages through the school day and communicate
easily with each other.

• My phone number for massages: 050 4883383

• My Email: H00328552@hct.ac.ae

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 My Methods to Involve Parents
in the classroom & school
• Have a positive relationship with the parents from the first of the year, and share with them their child’s

information.

• Make an events that let the parents involve and come to the school, events that parents can work with

their children. That will help and encourage the students and the parents.

• Ask the parents about ideas and suggestions, such as; the trips, the activities they think it will help the

students, and events. Parents will appreciate this, they will like the idea that the school let them write or

say their suggestions to help their children.

• Always contact with the parents even with the emails, messages or school applications. “improving

communication involves technology such as e-mail messages and interactive phone systems” (Getting

Parents Involved in Schools, n.d.).

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 Suggestions for Parents

• As a parents, you should always support your children’s education at home because this will

help them to be good in their school and learn better. I have some suggestions that could help

you to encourage your children:

• Always visit the school and the school’ website to check the calendar and see the important

information such as: upcoming trips, events, home works, and the exam dates (check daily if

possible). “Special resources for parents and students are also usually available on the district,

school, or teacher websites.” (10 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in Elementary School, 2018)

• Let your child do his/her home work everyday because in this age practicing is so important for

them to develop their study skills.

• Have a time to talk with your child about the school, this could encourage him/her a lot.

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 Calendar of Events for Parents
(Parents can join their children in these events)

Events Dates

Parents Orientation for New Parents 1-9-2018

Parents Orientation for Existing Parents 8-9-2018

Parents/Teachers Meeting 3-11-2018

(PTM)

National Day Celebration (Open Day) 29-11-2018

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 References List

10 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in Elementary School. (2018). Retrieved from kidshealth:

https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/school-help-elementary.html

20 Simple Assessment Strategies You Can Use Every Day . (2018). Retrieved from teachthought:

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/20-simple-assessment-strategies-can-use-every-day/

Classroom Management. (2014). Retrieved from edglossary: https://www.edglossary.org/classroom-

management/

Getting Parents Involved in Schools. (n.d.). Retrieved from readingrockets:

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/getting-parents-involved-schools

Theories surrounding learning through play. (2016, December 5). Retrieved from ukessays:

https://www.ukessays.com/essays/young-people/theories-surrounding-learning-through-play-young-

people-essay.php

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