Katherine Ditton

• Worked cooperatively with other teachers, administrators, and parents to help students reach learning objectives.
• Communicated frequently with parents, students, and colleagues to provide feedback and discuss instructional strategies.
• Supported student physical, mental, and social development using classroom games and activities.
• Integrated hands on learning
• Engaged the wider community, responsible for coordinating excursions and school camps with the cohort
• Creation of assessment from achievement standards for all KLAS. Use of assessment as an ongoing tool, rather than snapshot in time
• Planning collaboratively with teacher aide to maximise student engagement and outcomes

• Explicit instruction school. Engaged in frequent highly commended walkthroughs by line managers focused on teacher instruction, verbal and written feedback, student engagement
• Annotation of C2C assessments and rubrics to ensure consistency across cohort and creation of student exemplars

2015 Reading Intervention Teacher

• Responsible for teaching, observing and implementation of individual reading intervention for a range of students
• Ongoing assessment of reading
• Monitoring student progress and identifying further students requiring assistance
• Coordination of timetable in collaboration with teachers

2017 Year One Cohort leader

• Worked cooperatively in a large cohort (6 classes)
• Responsible for leading cohort staff meetings, modifying year level assessments, moderation, addressing any colleagues concerns with units of work or student learning

SEP attachment class 2017

• Learnt how to integrate students with additional needs in mainstream class,
• Differentiate for all levels, including movement in the classroom
• Collaboratively plan with SEP teacher across p-2 curriculum
• Incorporated exciting and engaging activities to achieve student participation and hands-on learning

Selected for STLAN position in 2018