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The document summarizes Emily Gooley's observations from a field trip visit to the Belvoir special education classroom. It notes that the teacher used several effective teaching strategies, including separating students into small groups working on different skills like syllables and spelling to accommodate mixed abilities. It also discusses the teacher's use of visual aids throughout the classroom and school to help students understand rules, instructions, and where materials are located. Finally, it mentions that the teacher checked for understanding by modeling tasks and having students demonstrate their knowledge independently.

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The document summarizes Emily Gooley's observations from a field trip visit to the Belvoir special education classroom. It notes that the teacher used several effective teaching strategies, including separating students into small groups working on different skills like syllables and spelling to accommodate mixed abilities. It also discusses the teacher's use of visual aids throughout the classroom and school to help students understand rules, instructions, and where materials are located. Finally, it mentions that the teacher checked for understanding by modeling tasks and having students demonstrate their knowledge independently.

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ESS304: Field Trip Report

Emily Gooley | 11517187

Effective teaching strategies


Individual teachers utilise different strategies within their classroom to support and
promote the learning within the classroom. Teaching strategies that work well for
some environments may not work as well in other environments. This means teachers
may need to alter or utilise completely different strategies between environments. .
For example, within a mainstream classroom many of the teaching strategies used are:
questioning, modelling, demonstrating, expectations, oral explanations, assessing and
checking for understanding. Within a special education setting such as Belvoir,
teachers are utilising similar teaching strategies to those in mainstream, however they
are modified and adapted to best suit their students needs and abilities.
During my visit at Belvoir I visited an early high school classroom for a short period
of time. During this time I observed effective use of teaching strategies. Initially
walking into the classroom, half of the class was working with syllables and the other
half were working on their spelling. Through separating these working groups the
teacher created an environment where mixed abilities were catered for. Differentiated
learning activities create an appropriate level of challenge, and engage students in
learning in meaningful way (Board of Studies NSW, 2012).
Another strategy that was used within the classroom was the use of visuals. At Belvoir
many students require visuals to help them understand rules and instructions.
Therefore during all lessons and transitions visual aids assist help students in
understanding tasks. Additionally the use of visuals is expanded throughout the room
and other environments such as the gym and kitchen to show where different learning
materials are. These visuals around the rooms enable students to become more
independent and therefore successful learners.
In regards to checking for understanding the teacher would initially model the class
task and then allow the students to then demonstrate their understanding by
independently attempting it themselves. Furthermore, assessing students knowledge
of learnt concepts the classroom teacher puts students into physical situations where
they have to demonstrate the skills they have learnt and conduct them independently.

ESS304: Field Trip Report

Emily Gooley | 11517187

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