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Linh was able to demonstrate the ability to consider the students NESB and ensure that new concepts being introduced were understood. She utilised the skills of a translator where necessary and simplified her lessons to provide quality scaffolding. Linh drew on the experiences of other teachers/ISTV'S who have worked with this students before, to identify strengths and weaknesses and developed her lessons accordingly.
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Linh was able to reinforce the goals set for the class in to her individual braille lessons. Her lessons coincided with concepts being taught to the class as a whole, while focussing on any new braille concepts that needed to be addressed at the same time. Her lessons provided challenges, but also guaranteed an element of success to ensure that the student continued to be motivated to learn.
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Linh was able to assess the students understanding of any new concepts taught and made sure that the student was confident with these before introducing a new concept. Linh provided some very explicit explanations and activities that strengthened the students understanding of related aspects of the Expanded Core Curriculm. Her braille literacy lessons would always include language and strategies that can be useful across other focus areas, helping to encourage independence, confidence and self advocacy and many other important skills.
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With the challenge of teaching from home, Linh was able to adjust her teaching style and provide explicit and quality instruction to a blind student via zoom. Linh ensured that the student understood the task at hand by providing a more intricate scaffold for the learning that was to take place. She used positional language, encouraged greater student independence and focused greatly on improving the students organisation skills.
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Linh engaged in frequent consultation sessions before and after her prac lessons. She was able to take on feedback and apply it to her following prac lessons. Her lessons flowed with a natural progression based on the strengths and needs of the student. She was able to implement additional strategies spontaneously as the opportunity presented itself and present lessons that needed to be reinforced in different ways when the student's understanding was not reached.
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Linh's zoom lessons sometimes involved the contribution of the class teacher to introduce the task at hand. Linh worked collaboratively with the class teacher to ensure that the class outcome was being met, while at the same time, reinforcing and/or introducing braille concepts. A translator was often used to provide further explanation. With so many people involved in the lesson, Linh often had to collaborate and reorganise her method for teaching in order to achieve the intended outcome.
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While the student was conducting lessons through zoom, Linh had to ensure that she payed closer attention to the student's ability to follow her instructions through verbal descriptions only. Linh ensured that all of her instructions were simple and short. She would often ask the student to relay the instructions given to them in order to assess their understanding of the task at hand. Linh took this opportunity to develop the students skills in other areas of the Extended Core Curriculum coincidentally. The student was able to develop their independence and confidence in the tasks that were presented to them.
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Linh was not afforded the ability to use technology directly with this student during COVID19. She did however, engage in developing the skills of the parent to enable access to zoom during home schooling. Her communication was extremely professional and engaged the resources of translator. There were many times during her lessons that technology failed and Linh was able to educate the parent on ways to reconnect to make access to zoom lesson possible.
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By revising concepts taught the previous lesson, Linh was able to demonstrate to the student their understanding and success in achieving the goal. Each lesson was planned to enable success and therefore, promote motivation for learning and confidence in learning. The student enjoyed receiving positive feedback and was always motivated and engaged in every lesson.
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Linh had always carefully considered the ability of the student when preparing her lessons and looked for ways to present new concepts by using a clear, organised and progressive plan. At the completion of each of Linh's lessons, she was always willing to take on feedback and improve on any areas of the delivery of information to accommodate any problem areas. Linh was able to break her tasks down in to smaller steps to achieve success, while increasing the challenge during the next lesson to achieve the desired overall outcome.
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Linh is confident and capable and has demonstrated a professional approach when working collaboratively with staff and parents. COVID19 presented many opportunities for Linh to communicate with the Class Teacher, the parent, SLSO, translator, Principal and other staff members. Linh was always able to communicate the students needs and the objective of the lesson very clearly and ensured that everyone involved was prepared and well informed about any lessons they were to be part of via zoom.
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Linh is a very flexible teacher. She has been keen to source feedback from all of her lessons and has demonstrated that she is able to change her performance based on that feedback. Linh's lessons were reflective of the knowledge that she has gained from her training, and she has been able to adapt her teaching in ways that suit the student's individual learning needs (NESB).
Do you consider that the Student is at risk of failing to achieve “Graduate level” by the end of their overall Practicum experience? No
Linh is an extremely professional teacher who has an obvious passion for developing and extending students educational needs. She has demonstrated a skilled level of delivering information to both students, teachers, parents and outside agencies. Linh has a great approach to teaching and is a wonderful communicator. She has developed a fantastic rapport with her students and has demonstrated a skilled ability to identify areas of need in the students learning, developing strategies to challenge and improve these areas in her lessons.