Ms Masealii's Mindlab Blog

Week 28: Reflection. Activity 4: Applied Practice 2 in Context It is the Teachers’ Council that confirms and registers (New Zealand Teacher Registration Board, 1991: 12) any good character person who is “fit to be a teacher” (Education Council, 2017).  However, the making of that particular teacher is the responsibility of various education experts like teacher training lecturers, schools’ principals, vice and assistant principals, team/syndicate leaders, associate teachers, teacher appraisers and the individual teachers. What? It was the fourth day, of the first two weeks, of my final student teacher practicum at the school. I was in a class of 34 students. My associate teacher was admitted in the hospital the night before the two Year 8 classes’ trip. A reliever and one parent appeared in the classroom before the bus left for the EOTC venue. Just before we left, the syndicate leader told me that the class was all mine. “Really? Are you coming?” I ...

My week 29’s reflection is based on Jay and Johnson’s reflective model Practice 2 – Activity 5 : Profe ssional Online Social Networks The use of social media has become increasingly critical to my teaching professional development. 1.    Descriptive I have always been withdrawing myself from using social media since my bank account scam experience. It keeps alerting me my personal information being accessed when logging into any digital device. Although it was chaotic at the start to set up own blogging media, things improved for I learn from mistakes. My Mind Lab journey has increasingly regained my trust and confidence, allowing my exposure to blogging with professionals through google communities (g+). Incredibly, many fellow Mind Lab colleagues shared their amazing, deeply justified views with various literature, contributing a lot to my personal growth and professional digital technology learner development. It reaffirms numerous ...