BMET Feb/March Priorities Review Meeting
With two weeks to go before Easter Holidays, BMET ESC have
had another meeting to track the progress of learners thus far. As I have been
at placement for almost four months now, my learners have all passed their exams
and are in the process of being moved onto the third and final part of the ESOL
E1 level course – writing. I plan to target these new writing materials using the
approach explored in Hedge’s Teaching and
Learning in the Language Classroom (2016, p319) – as text forms were a part
of the creative reading City & Guilds exam. So, by identifying “how can we analyse and describe the structure
of written texts” it is possible to relate the two courses together and
build on established understanding for the final part of the course.
Additionally, it has kindly been left to me to also develop
an entire scheme of work for the new Functional Skills English group starting
at the college soon. (Note: I have been provided previous staff members schemes
as a template, leaving me to update and target the new examination and work
materials to the new cohort of students post initial assessment/diagnostics
check). As this level about the same as GCSE English, my experience teaching
such a class should translate easily, just as covering did for the previous Functional
Skills class toward the end of their course last month.
One final note – Though with paperwork still pending, I have
been able to confirm that I have received my first grade number ones for my third
observation. Which, I will be critically analysing in another blog post in the
coming weeks. Not only is this good news and evidence of my ongoing/continuing
professional development. But it also allows me to track my progress and
develop better and more in-depth approaches to teaching that I originally didn’t
know/understand or could comprehend working, prior to starting this placement.
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