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Section F – Reflective Comprehensive Summary
discovery, growth as well as solidification of pre-knowledge over the last nine months. It has
been a challenge balancing life’s day to day personal and professional commitments while
still meeting assignment deadlines, preparing for field days as well as school visits.
However, this portfolio offered the opportunity to reflect on the growth made in specific
technological prowess. Likewise, I have seen much development in how I approach a class
and plan for individual classes and individual lessons. While my philosophy of who my
students are remains much the same, how I present content to them has changed. Now in
preparing, I am more cognizant of each child as an individual in the class instead of the class
with many individual students. Thus, I have tried to vary the tasks and assessments
throughout my lessons with much more thought to challenging each child instead of just
some children.
A major standout point for me through the development of this portfolio and overall
during this programme has been the absolute need for collaboration among colleagues. The
old adage says that two heads are better than one and no place is this more real than in
teaching and certainly in the Diploma in Education programme. Over the course of field days
and my personal teaching practices I have seen where collaboration instead of competition,
has benefitted the students with richly rewarding lessons with conceptually sound lessons
infused with interesting and fun activities which brought deeper opportunities for learning. I
believe my continued professional development will be hinged in large part to the continued
colleagues and friends made during the course of this programme. Indeed, the members of
my curriculum group along with our supervisor have made this experience all the more
interesting and edifying with their encouragements as well as their constructive criticisms.
In closing, the development of this portfolio has allowed me the chance to be a true
reflective practitioner. Through my eyes this means that although there were challenges,
failures and low moments, these helped me to learn and grow. All that resulted from these
moments was a chance to reassess, take the vital lessons they offered to grown and develop