Mon 28 May 2007
I asked two teachers seperatly to discuss whether they believed that the devleoped section of my portfolio adequatly displayed the 7th VIT attribute ‘Graduating teachers reflect on, evaluate and improve their professional practice’. The first i discussed it with was Robyn a first year out primary teacher. Robyn saw my second draft and since discussing it with her i further changed my lay out again. In the first draft i tried to display a lesson plan with teachers and students comments alongside with some annotation to show where the attribute was being displayed. I struggled immensly with this format and decided to scrap the idea and start over. The second draft i decided to pick out speciffic areas of the VIT attribute and use teachers, students and others comments to show that i was working towards best practice of the attribute. This is the version that I showed to Robyn, Robyn said i had the right idea but due to the fact that i was trying to rpesent it on A4 sized paper it made everything to cluttered and the information hard to decipher. She said adapting the idea to be in an A3 format with the attribute in the middle and all the information surrounding that would make it less cluttered and easier to understand. She also commented that formating it in a style that went through each A3 sheet would add consistancy and further make it easier to follow. So I took Robyn’s advice and rearanged everything so that the specific area of each attribute was centered on an A3 sheet with some of my own comments written in Italics under it describing how i was working towards best practice. Around this i stuck all the comments that illustarted the points i had made in italics. I was much happier with this lay out because it definatly looked much clearer and consistant. I showed the third draft to Robyn and she said that it was definatly clear as to how and why i am working my way towards best practice. The second teacher i showed the portfolio piece was to a tertiary trade (mechanics) teacher of who teaches apprentices and secondary school VET students. His name is funnily enough also Robin. Robin had a little difficulty seeing how it all came together but after actually describing how it all worked he agreed that this piece definatly showed how I was workign towards best practice. He did comment though that high lighting certain sections would definatly make speciffic points stand out and draw peoples attention to staright away. So i guess this si what i’ll submit and see how it all goes.