Neil MartinI recognise that as an educational professional, I am required to undertake continued professional development (CPD) (Queensland Collage of Teachers, 2017), which can be teacher identified, formal and informal, yet relevant to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers (AITSL, 2017). I believe that professional development should be an everyday occurrence, not a one-off special event. […]
As a preservice teacher, I was exposed to a wide variety of evolving pedagogical beliefs and teaching strategies, including HITS (DETV, 2019) known to increase student learning outcomes (Hattie, 2009). These strategies instantly resonated with me and I utilised them to target my teaching (Goss et al., 2015) throughout my final practicum placements, planning explicit, […]
I recognise that I am at the start of a long journey to becoming a professional in my chosen field of early childhood education. My priority would be to develop an understanding of my student’s abilities and backgrounds to better understand how they learn (AITSL, 2017). I believe teachers are ethically and legally required to […]
