First Placement (Week 4/4)

by | Jun 24, 2017 | Reflections

It’s the end! And it’s happy and sad. Happy because there’s finally a break but sad to be leaving such a nice school. I’ve had the best mentor teachers and learned more about teaching in these four weeks than my whole uni teaching degree. From...
First Placement (Week 3/4)

First Placement (Week 3/4)

by | Jun 17, 2017 | Reflections

Year 8s. For pretty much my entire degree I imagined myself in front of a class of year 11s and 12s teaching math and physics. I had experience tutoring year 11s and 12s and experience teaching first year university students how to write programs. Two of my three...
First Placement (Week 2/4)

First Placement (Week 2/4)

by | Jun 10, 2017 | Reflections

If I thought last week was busy, I was wrong. This week was my first full teaching week and I didn’t realize it last week, but on Tuesdays I actually have 6/6 lessons teaching. Double 10 science, double 8 science, 12 physics (observation/tutoring) then 8 math....
First Placement (Week 1/4)

First Placement (Week 1/4)

by | Jun 3, 2017 | Reflections

Wow. For most of my student life, I imagined that one day I’ll be a teacher and I’ll know what to do when I’m in front of my students. At the start of this week, I realised that this scenario isn’t a year or so away. It’s in a few days...