PER 2 / RP 2

2016

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & REFLECTION 2 / REFLECTIVE PRACTICE 2

FINAL REPORT

PRESERVICE TEACHER: Xunyu Li ID: 110163916

PROGRAM: MMET
SITE: Henley High School
SITE COORDINATOR: Fred Jarrett MENTOR/S: Tracy Moore Ray Wilke
UNIVERSITY LIAISON:
LEARNING AREAS
YEAR LEVEL (S) TAUGHT: 8, 11 Science, Chemistry
(secondary only)
DATES OF PLACEMENT: 22/8/2016 to 30/9/2016 TOTAL DAYS: 22
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE CONTEXT:
Henley High School is an Internationally Accredited (CIS), DECD School situated in the Western Suburbs of Adelaide. The school has a population
of approximately 1400 students from diverse backgrounds (including approx 100 international students) and with diverse interests. The school
attracts students from a wide range of primary schools as applications for enrolment grow from students who are not in the Henley HS zone.
Henley also has a regional Special Education Unit on site catering for 28 students with disabilities. Henley HS has a special entry Specialist Sports
Program offering 11 sports for students with proven, high level abilities. The school offers a comprehensive educational program to cater for
students who have diverse aspirations including tertiary pathways, pathways to apprenticeships and other skilled employment. The school is
committed to a future utilising current research for our planning and use of productive learning spaces and technology to enhance student learning
and this has been reflected in the design of the middle and senior schools and the 1:1 laptop program which is supported by robust infrastructure,
technical support and teacher professional development.

SUMMATIVE COMMENTS BY MENTOR TEACHER/S:

Xunyu is a developing teacher, she cares about her students and their success. Her strengths lie in the areas of being resourceful
and providing lessons with good variety. I wish her all the best in her future career. Tracy Moore/Ray Wilke

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DATE: 16 / 09 / 2016
Mentor Teacher Signature SATISFACTORY/ (Delete whichever is not applicable)
SUMMATIVE COMMENTS BY SITE COORDINATOR:
Xunyu met the administrative requirements of her placement, attending all required lessons, professional development sessions as
well as professional development days. The comments made by her mentor teachers indicate that she has some areas for
development, not unusual in a pre-service teacher, but also a number of strengths. She has demonstrated a willingness to reflect
and improve her practice by implementing advice provided by her mentors, this will serve her well in the future. We wish her all the
best.

DATE: 19 / 09 / 2016
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SATISFACTORY/
Site Coordinator Signature (Delete whichever is not applicable)

VERIFICATION BY AUTHORISED UNIVERSITY PERSONNEL:

 SUMMATIVE COMMENTS BY PRESERVICE TEACHER:
In the placement, I demonstrated and improved my capability of being a knowledgeable, encouraging and inspiring teacher.

I showed my good mastery of content knowledge and creatively embedded the relevant life examples into my teaching. I designed
several simple science experiments and activities that facilitated students understanding of complex and abstract scientific
concepts. I applied a sense of humour to teaching, which made the content more understandable.

I prepared well all teaching materials, equipment, worksheets in advance every lesson. I presented my lesson well and monitored
students while they were doing hands-on activities and experiments in case of any potential hazard and unexpected situation.

I cared about students well-being and accommodated their different and special needs in my teaching plans in order to help
students succeed. I am good at giving constructive and encouraging feedback and providing corresponding assistance and tutorial
to students in need.

I actively engaged in staff activities and meetings and built up a good relationship with other staffs.

19 / 9 / 2016
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Preservice Teacher Signature Date

The Mentor Teacher, Site Coordinator and Preservice teacher have been consulted during the placement and this report
documents evidence of the Preservice Teachers achievement of the Professional Experience objectives.

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DATE: / / 2016 SATISFACTORY/UNSATISFACTORY
University Personnel Signature (Delete whichever is not applicable)

NOTES FOR MENTOR TEACHERS AND SITE COORDINATORS COMPLETING THIS REPORT
The assessment criteria used in this report are the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

The Preservice Teacher may wish to submit this report with an application for employment. Please avoid the use of acronyms as student reports are
often viewed by interstate and international employers who are not always familiar with South Australian nomenclature.

The preservice teacher has completed the required the full 22 days of their placement including visit YES /NO
days.
MENTOR TEACHER COMMENTS: PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE
1. Know students and how they learn 2. Know the content and how to teach it

1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of
students
1.2 Understand how students learn
1.3 Students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and
socioeconomic backgrounds
1.4 Strategies for teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
students
1.5 Differentiate teaching to meet the specific learning needs of
students across the full range of abilities
1.6 Strategies to support full participation of students with disability
2.1 Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.2 Content selection and organisation
2.3 Curriculum, assessment and reporting
2.4 Understand and respect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
people to promote reconciliation between Indigenous and non-
Indigenous Australians
2.5 Literacy and numeracy strategies
Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
Xunyu has good scientific knowledge and has been able to creatively deliver content to students. Her selection of resources has
improved and she has used current resources to develop her own, put her own spin on it, so that they are more engaging. Xunyu
attempted a variety of delivery of methods, including notes from the board, short videos, discussion and debate as well as model
labelling.
Xunyu needs to develop her understanding of student ability levels and how students develop cognition of ideas. She needs to work
on sequencing ideas, so that students can construct their understanding. Giving students more time to delve deeper into concepts
she tended to rush. Her style of questioning began to develop, but she needs to work on how to clarify ideas using student
responses. In regards to differentiation for below standard students, her accommodation occurred when instructed, something she
needs to pay more attention to in next experience.
Xunyu has shown that she can competently extract content from the Australian Curriculum. She has assessed 2 tasks and used
appropriate grading for the school and Australian Curriculum. She has entered the information using the schools database
programs.
Xunyu scientific language (oral and board work) still needs development. Her prepared documents were suitable. Xunyu improved
student numeracy skills through data analysis and IT skills by teaching students the uses of excel.

MENTOR TEACHER COMMENTS: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning 4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning
3.1 Establish challenging learning goals environments
3.2 Plan, structure and sequence learning programs 4.1 Support student participation
3.4 Use teaching strategies 4.2 Manage classroom activities
3.5 Select and use resources 4.3 Manage challenging behaviour
3.6 Use effective classroom communication 4.4 Maintain student safety
3.7 Evaluate and improve teaching programs Use ICT safely, responsibly and ethically
3.3 Engage parents/carers in the educative process
5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student 5.3 Make consistent and comparable judgements
learning 5.4 Interpret student data
5.1 Assess student learning 5.5 Report on student achievement
5.2 Provide feedback to students on their learning

Xunyu is developing her understanding of what students are able to do and showed reasonable lesson objectives through well
thought out lesson plans. Though these objectives were often not clear to students. Lesson plans where detailed and showed a
good variety of tasks. Xunyu attempted to use a variety of strategies and resources as previously stated. She produced accurate
PowerPoint slide shows and accessed appropriate video resources to enhance the delivery of key ideas.
Communication in written form was suitable. Much work needs to occur in regards to classroom presence and verbal
communication. Therefore, management of the classroom is at the beginning stages, Xunyu needs to develop some strategies in
managing student engagement levels and disruptive behaviour. She is considerate about student safety and is supportive of student
well-being she cares about students. Currently Xunyu has communicated with parents via email and the use of assignment
manager to provide assessment feedback.
Xunyu has shown excellent use of reflective practices, by providing me a reflection document after each lesson, when receiving
feedback about her teaching. She has then followed up, by demonstrating new strategies in the next lesson.
Xunyu has shown very good development in regards to assessment. She carefully analysed her students experiment reports and
gave encouraging feedback. She needs to consider students abilities and accommodations we need to make for students with lower
abilities. Xunyu sort out feedback about her assessment skills and made consistent and appropriate judgements of student
achievement levels using AC achievement standards.

MENTOR TEACHER COMMENTS: PROFESSIONAL ENGAGEMENT

6. Engage in professional learning 7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and
the community
6.1 Identify and plan professional learning needs 7.1 Meet professional ethics and responsibilities
6.2 Engage in professional learning and improve practice 7.2 Comply with legislative, administrative and organisational requirements
6.3 Engage with colleagues and improve practice 7.3 Engage with the parents/carers
6.4 Apply professional learning and improve student learning Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities
Xunyu took part in all professional meetings that occurred during her placement and engaged in a Student Free Day that focused on
wellbeing. When attending a curriculum collaboration meeting she attempted to provide advice and ideas about the task being
developed.

Xunyu also connected herself with the year 12 chemistry class and teacher. She attended all of the lessons for observational
purposes and assisted in two experiments.

Xunyu is personable and friendly, she can communicate with staff and students competently.

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