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Teacher Reflective Essay

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This assignment will reflection of my experience as a trainee teacher and it will also discuss how reflection has become at the central of my learning and improving my teaching. In doing this, I will first discuss my philosophy in teaching and learning language and the impact of National Curriculum in teaching today; secondly, I will highlight the importance of reflection in development of ML teaching and then I will also discuss on the difficulties that I have during my training. Personal Philosophy as a Modern Languages teacher – consider teacher identity My journey to teach has been very rewarding and exciting at the same time demanding and stressful (Capel et al. 2009). These kinds of feeling have adjusted my own personality, my perception …show more content…

Allan (2015:10) mentions that ‘In MFL levels have been a way to demonstrate a stepped approach for the KS3, clearly showing where students are succeeding, as well as where they need to do in term students. Now each school in agreement with their MFL department has the right to imply their own system of monitoring pupil’s progress and attainment. In my first placement, we were using the old National Curriculum level because the new system was not yet comprehended within the MFL department. I found the level system useful because it did allow me to monitor pupil’s progress easily. However, in my last placement, the school have created DPR which is a system to measure pupils against the standard in order to comply with the Ofsted requirement to accept any system the school will adopt as long as they can justify it (Collie, 2013). Yet only the class teachers could access the DPR, and this was making things difficult for me as trainee teacher to record and monitor my pupil’s progress. It was a requirement to raise pupil’s expectation on what they should achieve by the end of the lesson and this could ensure that some or most pupil’s level is secured if they can reach the success criteria. What I found most important in this system is that being an class teacher at this moment when the curriculum level are taken away, it is really …show more content…

Tickle (2013) states ‘there is a growing recognition in the world that monolingual British schoolchildren are becoming ever more disadvantaged by their lack of language skill”. A lot of research declare that Learning a language in secondary school helps pupils to increase their cognitive skills or thinking skills, to expand their knowledge of other cultures and equipping pupils to have a wide range of choices for their further studies and career

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