The practicum gives me an immersive experience of teaching in Australian high school. This experience provides me with the opportunity to discover the connectedness of the theoretical approaches and the real-world teaching, and further understand how personal pedagogy, in-depth comprehensive of curriculum and unit design can affect the learning outcomes respectively. My placement of Practicum 1 is Technological and Applied Science (TAS) in Holsworthy High school. In these five weeks of teaching block, I took Year 8 Industrial Technology, Year 9 Industrial Technology Timber and Year 10 Graphics Technology. In the first two weeks of practicum, I mainly continue the previous units, and in the following three weeks, I started projects with new content.

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The classroom climate could be significantly impacted by the factors such as the topic of the unit, difficulty of the activities, individual interests and even the time of the class. Students can quickly go off-task if the lesson is too difficult (or too easy, too boring, too intensive, too much freedom, etc.). Therefore, a well-structured and balanced pedagogy is needed to keep them engaged, while a variety of needs-based approaches are required to keep them motivated. 

 

The classroom value is one of the most elements of positive learning environments (PLEs). Workshop safety is the most priority value for all schools and students; any violation against personal safety and work safety should not be tolerated. Also, as a role model in the classroom, it is teachers' responsibility to establish ethics and moral values for students.