Teacher Portfolio

Professional Teaching Portfolio

Since I am currently applying for primary teaching jobs and waiting on call backs from the applications I have put in, I have decided to share with you my version of my Professional Teaching Portfolio. My lecturer in my final year at University suggested we make one that reflects our personality. 

So if you are unfamiliar with Teaching Portfolios, or looking for ideas, I thought I would post up images of mine to give you a little inspiration. I have organised mine in a way that suits me but you can tweak yours to your desire.

Being a primary school teacher here in England, I have included lots of visual aids, tons of colour, been super OCD on the format and style of mine, as well as laminating all my photos. 

Please find the 'Teaching Portfolio' tab above this post, which is located under the blog title. Hope you enjoy and find it useful.

Mr. W

"Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life"

Trying to find my feet in a world of education

Welcome. If you are reading this then I hope you have already realised that I am a teacher, a primary school teacher to be exact. I have been debating whether to create a blog for a long time now but on Saturday 22nd March 2014, whilst lying in bed with a cup of English tea I have decided to go for it.

At this stage, I am unsure where this blog will take me but I do want it to express my views on the current education system here in the UK, provide teaching resources, teacher tips and pretty much anything else I come across relating to what I do and what I love.

So.... who, what, and where am I now?

This is currently me

As you can see from the above photo, I am currently a supply teacher. But before I got here I had 4 years at Plymouth University studying a BEd (Hons) in Primary Education with a specialism of ICT (now turned to Computing). I graduated last July with QTS and a 2:1 for my degree. Today, I am working for a teaching agency in the Westcountry, while it is not always full-time work it is providing me with greater experience and even greater confidence for when I do finally master that one interview and get myself my first teaching post.

I am currently a Twitter and Pinterest fanatic, the resources available on these platforms are endless and I have found so many useful and effective teaching materials whilst browsing upon them. Please feel free to find and add me as I am constantly pinning and tweeting what I find.

My Twitter account and huge MUFC fan

Find me on Pinterest

As I come to end of my first blog post, I feel I have started something which has the potential to be a great use to myself and anyone who comes across when browsing on the Internet. I will try and keep a weekly update at least about whats happens in my world. I also need to make decision on my next career move after the Summer term as I have had two offers for long-term placement. 1. is full-time at large junior school and 2. is 0.6 rota at a small village school. Both will count towards my NQT year and both have the potential to have a full-time job come September. However, I need to decide which school will support and value my contribution the most. Hopefully the next next blog I post, I would have made a decision and can sort of say "I finally have a teaching post" (well kind of).

Thanks for reading.

Mr. W