Page 20 - Reflection on my Year Book so far ...
Page 20 - we really are here. As I am currently on placement, my posts for just over the last month have all be pre written and as this is my last week of placement until June, it'll be my last pre written for a while. Over the past few weeks I hope you have enjoyed me delving into some new topics and sharing some of my experiences. Over the next few weeks, I am eager and excited to share some aspects of what I have learnt from placement, lessons i've planned and resources I have made. It may have started slowly from national lockdowns and cancelled placements; since we have made it to 20 and on my 9th month of posting, I have decided to look back from where we started to where we are now. To put it simple - I have learnt a lot.
I started this yearbook in lockdown as I wanted to share my experiences and reflections with fellow trainee and qualified teachers. I was also extremely bored in lockdown and had finished my university work and wanted to find an academic purpose over the summer and then multiple lockdowns. I am still throughly enjoying sharing my passion with others and watching this blog flourish and grow is something I am personally really proud of and looking forward for this hopefully continuing to grown throughout my career. I am roughly about half way through my training and have learnt so much already. Opening this professional social platform has allowed me to connect and network with many other teachers allowing me to push myself further with my academic studies and placement teaching.
When I started, my very first posts were highly emphasised on reflection and what I had learned in my BA1 academic studies and my KS2 placement in year 6. After a brief welcome post, I delved into reflecting on my first year of studies being cut short and what this meant for my training. This was followed by then my most view post - The first day of becoming Miss Yeoman. I documented my very eventful and exciting first day of becoming a teacher from getting the wrong bus to dissecting hearts. Following finally being able to return back to university in September, my next few posts discussed tips for moving away from home and studying. Another popular post was my next in which I shared my experience of completing an assignment at the same time of testing positive for covid-19. Sharing the challenges faced shows that its okay to not always feel as motivated and positive as I indicate 90% of the time on this blog. As my blog continued to develop with my training, I then wrote some more academic style pieces exploring themes such as the teaching standards and Normality and Ability: what are these themes in education ... This is a personal standard out post to me. Included in the post I shared the work of Jonathon Glazzard, who on twitter got tagged in my blog which he then read and engaged in a detailed thread on twitter discussing with me inclusion, neoliberal education and the assessment system which really allowed me to critically reflect on my studies so far. This indicated to me the doors that can be opened and the platforms teacher blogging can reach.
When I realised the growth and potential of professional social media and in my free time exploring 'teachergram', I decided to set up a teaching page sharing stories and posts of my blog as well as resources, Q&A's and day to day lifestyle content. My account quickly grew and now I have over 450 followers that I am throughly enjoying sharing content with. From this, I connected with authors, such as Lesley Berrington who is the author of the Hattie and Friends series who kindly sent me a copy of all 4 of her inclusive EYFS books. I loved exploring these and creating lesson ideas that I have shared and cannot wait to be able to use these in my own classroom.
So now we are at my most recent posts. As well as investigating and sharing my continued professional development journey so far, I have most recently been sharing my experiences and offering tips and advice from what I have learnt. It was excellent reflective practice for my own professional development to search through what I found the most beneficial academic literature, as well as sharing my top tips when starting to lesson plan, use assessment in the classroom and preparing for your first few lesson observations.
This leads to where we are now. Page 20: Reflection on my yearbook so far. If you have read any of my previous posts, I am known to drone on about reflection and the importance of this for your development a lot - so therefore I felt this post today has been beneficial in recognising within myself my progress so far and feeling proud of how I have transformed not as a teacher but a person over these months. With placement about to finish, hopefully you will join me next week where I will share some of my experiences in the EYFS so far and set up my next few posts. I hope you carry on reading and follow on with me as I continue my training and career when qualified. I would like to thank everybody for all the kind words shared on here and both @_missyeoman (on twitter and instagram). My dm's are always open and I love connecting with other teachers and learning together. If there is any particular posts of topics you would like opened up and discussed, I am always open to share my views on all things teaching. To sum up today, I will share this quote that encapsulates Miss Yeoman's Yearbook so far:
"To blog = to share to connect to create to inspire" - The Gingerbread Gem
- Miss Yeoman
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