Angela Fattore

I have had instincts at a young age to pursue my dream career of becoming a teacher. It is this desire that I have as an educator to make a positive impact of the development of a child. I believe that teaching is a journey, and that each child is a unique individual who needs a caring and stimulating atmosphere in which to grow, mature emotionally, physically and socially. I have learnt throughout my tertiary studies, ways to apply a variety of strategies based on the beginning stages of the child (physical, social and intellectual) development. Developed throughout my professional experience practices and through my beginning teacher opportunities, I have grown to understand the different learning theories in education, diverse needs of students and sequential planning and assessment strategies. These learning opportunities have been applied to these practices in order to be a competent classroom teacher.  

I hold a philosophy that my personality reflects  on who I am in the classroom. With this said, having a positive attitude to learning, demonstrating respect in a culturally safe environment and adapting to the learning needs of students are ways I deliver my teaching attitudes in the classroom. I have begun to be a teacher that delivers a style for catering differentiation and understanding the different methods to teach students. Hands on activities are one strategy that I will apply through all lessons as through practice, students are thoroughly engaged at all times. I am the kind of teacher that is interested in what the student already knows and understands about their learning. I build this knowledge through what they know and extend this in diverse ways. I believe that it is my responsibility to initially prepare students knowledge and progress through it. I also consider in implementing thinking skills drawn from Blooms Taxonomy and Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences. Additionally, I am an auditory learner myself and I learn through verbal communication experiences. I plan to explore which Intelligence my students are and cater their type to their knowledge, understanding and skills in their learning.

Planning and assessment are two important factors in teaching and learning as, planning needs to be accurate and effective whilst Assessment is fundamental, as it informs teachers of the potential of students that then directs the teacher to make adjustments to future learning. I facilitate students by monitoring their learning, ongoing questioning to their learning and note taking whilst providing a range of assessment tasks that suit the student’s needs, knowledge and learning styles. I use current curriculum documents to plan my programs and lessons and I am always wary of the schools legislative, ethical and administrative requirements.

I believe that communication must become involved with all participants to encourage students learning. Therefore, I strive to build and maintain relationships amongst students, teachers, parents, staff of the school and the wider community. I always promote open body language when conversing with students and encourage optimism and implement humour when necessary. I create a natural manner in the way I approach students and participants along with the schools community, whilst always striving to maintain my professionalism.

I am dedicated throughout my profession in a passionate and positive way. I value that every day I will shape the future through impacting students knowledge, skills, views and understandings.

To navigate through this portfolio, simply click on the given standard which will open individually each standard consisting of sub standards. I have demonstrated annotations for each sub standard supporting with evidence located in the resource/evidence sections on the page.   

I have attatched resources of evidence and additional resources in each standard, by clicking on the item, it will first download on to the desktop's browser or downloads folder. The item will either say 'Open or Save' the file.  Clicking on images will expand them into a new page, simply enlarging the document 

Documents I have used are; .pdf, .docx, .doc, .ppt, .png, .jpeg, .avi, .mp4. These file types require computers that have Windows 7, Mac, computers or any computers that have Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010. 

I hope you enjoy navigating through the professional standards and receive an insight into my journey of developing into a primary school teacher. 

Note: All participants involved throughout my annotations and evidence have been considered through ethical considerations. All student participants names have not been used in the process of designing this portfolio. Mentor teachers first names have been used with the approval of all teachers.