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This presentation has informed my knowledge about Ofsted greatly. As a student, I have only ever witnessed my previous teachers and schools being inspected and have never experienced the ‘behind the scenes’ of an Ofsted inspection. By completing this task, I feel that I am now able to understand the process that Ofsted follow in a clearer form and feel that this would be very beneficial towards my professional development. This is because as I aspire to be a primary school teacher, I am now aware of what Ofsted look out for in an inspection and feel that I would be able to implement the knowledge gained into my practice and work ethics. Furthermore, my presentation has allowed me to self-evaluate myself and has helped me understand my strengths and …show more content…
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However, I did notice that there were a few faults in the presentation, one being a fault that I personally consider may have negatively impacted our presentation. It seems to me that I was not able to deliver the presentation to the best of my ability as I had let my nerves get the best of me when talking to the staff. The reason for this was that I was not comfortable with taking on the speaking role that I was given and that there were last minute changes made to my slides right before presenting. Bruner, (1996) stated that the learning process for staff relies on the “meaningful dialogue” that is presented by the presenters. In this case, I think that my speech was not strong enough to grab the audience’s attention, thus not being able to portray my message about what an Ofsted inspection is and what the results from an Ofsted inspection mean. Nevertheless, although I was not able to present to the quality that I had wished, the feedback received was reassuring that I had not done terribly bad. I was able to see myself grow as a presenter as I noticed that my
self-esteem had increased whilst presenting. I can relate my growth with Benson and Dundis’s (2003) and Kremer and Hammond’s, (2013) interpretation of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs theory. This is because they state that an individual usually notices a change in their self-concept when being faced with challenges. I believe that my growth was due to the reason that I was put in a place that challenged my skills and after taking on the role of leadership and being a member of a team, I can now understand the importance of participation and how each individual has an impact on the success of the presentation (Gonzalez-DeHass and Willems, 2014). In conclusion, I feel that the practice, skills and knowledge that I have gained from planning for, creating and presenting this presentation for the training session had given me an insight of what I would be doing as a teacher in an early years setting. Having especially gained knowledge about Ofsted and the process that they go through enables me to implement my skills and knowledge in a form that I know is expected by the inspectors. I now feel more prepared for any future inspections that I may face and feel that I would be able to pass on the knowledge gained from this presentation to other colleagues in a form that is more understandable.
Chiefs Petty Officer Academy (CPOA) is an extremely effective tool to help refine leadership and understand one’s self. The CPOA course offers a vast opportunity for self reflection and learning how to communicate with a multitude of different personalities. There were a plethora of topics taught during the 5 week course; however the topics that had the greatest influence and inspiration for me personally were the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), Disc profile, and ropes course.
I am always a little nervous and hesitant when I begin writing an essay. Ever since I was little I was an honor roll student, passed all my tests, was placed in honors and AP classes, and eventually graduated a year early from high school. I used to be so confident when I would begin writing a paper, I could finish it within a couple minutes. During junior year of high school, I began taking duel credit classes. I was passing all the classes so far until I reached English 111. It was an 8-week course and I started to get overwhelmed. All throughout the course I was having a little bit of trouble on the essays. I would still receive a passing grade, but it wasn’t an A. I began becoming a little discouraged and didn’t understand what was going
Before I started this class I never knew what sociology was. I thought I knew, but I actually didn’t. I thought it was some boring study about the society that we live in, but I was proven wrong by this course. Through many different concepts taught I have been able to understand what sociology really is, and how to apply it to my daily life. There were many topics that we talked about in class that I can apply to my life be it school, work, home. Some of the many topics we talked about that really spoke to me were sexuality, race, and gender.
Office for standards in Education. (2013). Inspection report. [online]. Available from: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/CARE/EY440265 [Accessed 10 January2014]
OFSTED is the school specific regulatory bodies for England, they are responsible for inspections of services carried out by schools, colleges and children's homes making sure they provide the quality of service adequate for every child and young person. OFSTED make professional judgment when inspecting the settings ,it will then be published in an OFSTED report outlining any required improvements that may be needed and the necessary actions to improve their facilities to provide adequate standards in care and education .
The Strengths of Office for Standards in Education is that when the members of OFSTED go to health and social care environments to inspect, they are usually able to see how the health and social care service users are behaving in the health and social care environments. An example of this includes: in a health and social care environment such as a school, the inspectors will be able to speak to the students as well as teachers. This will allow the inspectors to get students perspectives of the school and how they are finding their education. When a schools get inspected, the schools will be able to be given feedback bout how they can improve their education system. However, the weakness of Office for Standards in Education is that the examinations are not always truthful. Also, the Office for Standards in Education gives the school or health and social care environments notice they will be visiting on a certain day and this gives health and social care time to prepare for the inspection and also allows health and social care environments to get better results on their inspection. Also, the Office for Standards in Educations will need to do unexpected visits to health and social care environments and by doing this; the inspectors will be able to get a honest view about the health and social care
The highlight of the presentation was when Attorney Gilbert had a mini mock interview with Domonique James, and asked her about her weaknesses. A strong point of the presentation was the lesson about dress code and doing research on the company beforehand. The presentation was good and I wouldn’t change anything about it. The information Attorney Gilbert shared was 100% useful. We will be needing the skills and advice he was instilling in
I could have tried to make ti so that when I was done I could have tied the whole analogy together and made it connect to all the skills that I said I have improved on. For showing my progress as a learner I think the way that I presented was one of the main things that showed some of my progress making it so that you could actually here me when I was giving my presentation which is something that has always been a problem when I have to talk in front of people. I also think that even though at the end of my presentation I didn’t obviously say my over all opinion about how I have improved I thought my evidence that I had given through out the presentation worked well with the points that I was trying to say I improved on. Along with making sure that what I was comparing it to was very specific so that people didn’t start to think of another part of the project that I was using that I might to have improved on confusing them. Over all I think that my POL compared to others was not to bad. I think for sure that I did better then last year because of how I presented this time
For this assignment based on a dementia case study, we were placed in a group of four. On November 18th, we presented on the subtopics, specifically, wandering and elopement of the patient to our classmates and professor. My group collaborated well with each other, but differed in opinion about the inclusion of research and online video in our presentation. As a presenter, I felt that we did not present as smoothly as we would have liked, due to nervousness and anxiety when teaching a class on dementia care. When we began, aside from what we may have felt, I believed that as a group we maintained good overall communication and had the audience engaged throughout. Similarly, as an audience I gathered a lot more information about
I thought I did a good job in creating the Prezi, and making the presentation seem very professional and attention grabbing. The biggest challenge that I had was communicating the material directly to the audience effectively. This had been a problem for me in my entire life, however, I believe that this is something that will gradually improve by experience and practice. Although the presentation as a whole may not have ended up as successful as I wished; I had learned a lot about writing a research paper, and experiencing the feeling of speaking to a crowd. I believe that I will be able to implement the knowledge and experience that I had gained for any sort of public speaking in the
Making a successful public presentation or speech to an audience was a very big task for me before I joined the public speaking class. I was always frightened and very nervous. Since then I now understand the process of making a speech or a presentation including coming up with a topic and from this topic develop the main points of the speech, research, organize my points, revise them, edit and make a magnificent presentation to any audience. People in the audience might sometimes agree or disagree with my opinion or points, it was therefore necessary to communicate my information clearly to the audience without making any judgments since every person was entitled to a different opinion and views about things.
During this course I learned a lot about myself as a writer. I learned that I can write tremendously well if I put my mind to it. When we received writing assignments from the professor, I would not be interested in doing it so I would procrastinate most of the time. But when I actually took my time to perfect an essay, I did well. I really did not know that I had that sort of knowledge in me. Pushing myself to greatness got me to where I am academically at the moment.
Courage is an excellent trait to have and not many people have it. I know there have been times where I was not brave at all. Although, I can remember a few times where my braveness showed. I was about seven years old and I was about to perform on stage for the first time with my theatre group. I was scared that I would mess up one of the dance moves or slip and fall on stage. Then, I went on stage and I actually did very well. I was brave because I didn’t run away and hide, like I normally would have at that age and I pushed myself to do something that I was afraid to do. The affected me, because now I can do some things that I am afraid to do, like trying new things. Another time that I acted courageously was starting my first year of high
I have also improved my creative and critical thinking skills. For example, the use of infographics in the conclusion of our presentation helped to filter down all the macro details mentioned in presentation into an easy to read format.
Nathan also commented that I was really good at articulating the responses to the questions. Therefore I was amazed by the comments I received from the interviewer and the observers. I felt like I could have been even better if I overcame my