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My Situation
My Situation
Every teacher needs to create a supportive and safe classroom environment, for students to become the best they can be. I aim for my classroom to have a creative and uplifting atmosphere where people can develop ideas to fulfill their full potential. My main goal is for all students to succeed: I promote independent learning and encourage students to solve problems with focused guidance. This in turn has an impact on future learning, develops responsibility for their own learning and resilience. I intend to instill departments with an unwavering commitment to providing quality first teaching, where staff are student focused and dedicated.
My background, I am a computer science teacher in the heart of west Cumbria. I am in my sixth year of teaching and four of those have been at my current school. I am the only teacher of GCSE and Alevel Computer Science and have revamped the curriculum to meet the needs of the local area and the demands from exam boards. At the end of the academic year 2018-19, I will be leaving my current setting to work in the Private Sector.
Over the past couple of years, thanks to an old head teacher, I have been interested and started to research the impact technology is having on the day to day practice of classroom teachers and if their students are making more progress. Especially focusing on:
- The impact on work load of teachers
- Any pedagogical shifts
- Impact of sharing resources and types
- Progress made by use of technology
- The rise in mobile technology
- The decline of static technology (Technology that
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