Hasnaat Nawaz

• Establishing a nurturing, safe and inspiring classroom environment through the implementation of imaginative, creative and engaging teaching experiences.
• Delivering high quality teaching, personalized to the needs of different students, such as EAL (English as an additional language), gifted and talented students and children with autism and ADHD. 
• Responsible for planning, resourcing and assessing all subjects within the classroom.
• Making a positive impact on the year group such as delivering staff meetings, assemblies and writing reports. 
• Strong subject knowledge and experience teaching core subjects such as phonics, mathematics, literacy, art, music, pe, history and geography. 
• Promoting physical, social, mental and emotional development through outdoor motor play and a learning program called JIGSAW. 
• Team teaching, which allowed me to critically analyze my own work and the work of my colleagues. 
• Using appropriate assessment strategies such as AFL within the classroom to track pupil progress and set targets to close the gaps within learning.

FOUR OAKS PRIMARY SCHOOL (CLASS TEACHER PLACEMENT) OCT 2019 – MARCH 2020

• Attended various training meetings in regards to safeguarding, preparation and assessment.
• Participated in multiple extracurricular activities such as lunch time clubs, after school clubs and school productions, therefore developing students’ skills and experiences outside of the classroom. 
• Took charge of a small group of students who were struggling in mathematics and successfully tracked their performance over a few months – a drastic improvement was seen.
• Established relationships with teachers outside of my year group, allowing me to gain advice and expertise on various subjects and teaching styles.

SOMERVILLE PRIMARY SCHOOL (CLASS TEACHER PLACEMENT) SEPT 2020 – JAN 2021

• Planned lessons according to the National Curriculum and the school’s curriculum, differentiating according to the individual student’s needs.
• Spoke with class mentors and subject leaders in order to differentiate across all core and foundation subjects, in order to close the gaps in students learning.
• Attended staff meetings in accordance to changes in school policies, in order to be up to date with my teaching styles.
• Assessed student’s progress by observing and testing them within lessons and writing up data in the school’s database. 
• Built positive relationships with parents during parents’ evenings and having conversations with them at home times, in order to involve them in the educational process. 
• Chaperoned school trips in order to maintain safety and encourage learning.

YORKSWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL (CLASS TEACHER ROLE) MARCH 2023- present 

• Planning and preparing lessons with the fellow year 4 class teacher, creating resources and PowerPoints for the lessons- using the British National Curriculum and Mid term planning of the school.
   
• Greeting the parents and children in the morning and dismissing the children and home-time.
   
• Taking the class register in the mornings.
   
• Delivering lessons to the children and assessing through live marking, quizzes, rapid recall, self assessment, questioning and end of lesson marking.
   
• Addressing any misconceptions (mainly in maths) with the use of manipulatives..
   
• Behaviour management using a “table points” system I have created. Also through using class dojos and house points.

• Working with the TA’s to effectively support the different range of learning abilities in the class. 

• Break time duties.

• Keeping the classroom tidy and modelling good behaviour and habits to the children.

• Communicating with my fellow year 4 teacher and talking about lessons and where we think the children are at. Changing lessons and planning appropriately to meet children’s needs.

• Supporting my fellow colleagues when they are unsure about a lesson I have planned and coming up with solutions together when children do not understand a particular topic of work.