Hey all.....
looks like I have managed to miss a couple of years. Classic. I am just about to sign up with a group to run a blog. Am I nuts? Completely! I do like blogs but I really, really don't ever seem to find the time. Maybe I would be better served by signing up for a time a management course. Anyway, sure it will be another learning experience.
But just so you all know, I did manage to finish uni, and yea I have been teaching for the last two years, and have had my very own class for the last year and a half. Loving it! Just loving it. I have perfected my teacher glare..... dust it off every time they tell me they can't find a book in their desk and I have it! They cheek of it. I've only been guilty a number of times of having one of their books when I said I didn't. But there are so many things to enjoy about teaching, I love going there everyday.
It's funny though, at the beginning of they year they seem so small and young and now, half-way through they seem more like adults and are easy to hold conversations with. I love seeing how some of them understand the complexities around us, how they take the information I feed them and use it, and how those who don't understand the multi-layers of meaning in a subject happily work their way through at their level. It's great. And when they get a concept, seeing their confidence grow is fantastic. I could rave for days about all the positive things. It really is a wonderful calling.... Can't call it job. If you call teaching a job, I do believe that you probably should find a different occupation. It takes so much of your time, energy and thoughts if you considered it a job, you'd be quite despondent at how you don't really get those long holidays, and school hours aren't really only between the bell, or Monday to Friday. So it has to be a calling, so that all your sacrifices make sense!
