Teacher
I’ve got a feeling everything is about to change. On Tuesday I start a new job as a teacher, I’ll be teaching ICT, Media Studies and other general form class type stuff at the Belfast Model for Schools. I can see this will bring about many changes in my day to day routine.
What’s going to change?
- Since finishing university 5 years ago I’ve always enjoyed known I was getting home at the same time every night. I’ve a feeling this will change.
- Since finishing university 5 years ago I’ve always known that I didn’t need to take work home. I know this is going to change.
- Since finishing university 5 years ago I’ve not really had much job satisfaction in my work. I hope this is going to change.
- For the past seven years I’ve been working on a computer all day long and spent many a distracted 5minutes checking facebook, email, twitter, digg, bbc etc. This is going to change, I’ll not have time but I’ll not be have time to be bored either.
- For the past 9 years people have been able to phone me at anytime and I was able to answer them right away, often giving advice on something technical. This will not be able to happen as I can’t answer my phone in class.
- My evenings have been my own apart from committee meetings and a little bit of study for university the past two years. My evenings now belong to marking and preparation.
It’ll change in many more ways but all in all I’m very excited and feel very privileged to have this opportunity to share my passion for Information Technology Communication with the next few generations.
Sub Teacher
This year I’m only being paid as sub, which means although I have a full timetable all year I won’t be getting paid for holidays (and there’s a lot of holidays) so I’ll need to tighten my belt on the spending. Generous Dermo will be away for a little while.
I have really felt led in this direction over the past 5 or 6 years and in fact 17 years ago before I found out I was dyslexic I wanted to be a teacher but didn’t think it would be possible and my GCSEs only helped to make the point still further. It was a series of coincidences (or as I believe God’s guidance) that worked together to bring me here. In short:
- University placement in Education Department at UUJ
- 1st Job post degree Education Department BBC NI online, met Andy who introduced me to moodle
- Next job webmaster Girls’ Model
- Line manager took the PGDFHE route and advised it was possible to do
- Accepted for PGCFHE/PGDFHE through Education Department at UUJ (my old boss was my course director)
I just hope I can do the job now but thankfully I have loads of people in work who will help and keep me right.
05/05/2012 10:56 am
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Congrats!
I’m starting to teach this year too (English, starting next week). I’m used to working from home for uni, and, like you, spending ridiculous amounts of time on the computer. So being in front of a class of pupils for several hours every day is going to be a real challenge!
What age group will you be teaching?
11-18 year old girls.
I have a year 8 (11/12 year olds) form class and I also have them ICT. Then the rest are GCSE & A-Level.
What about you, what ages are you teaching?
Wow, that’s quite a range. I’ll be teaching 16-18 year olds and upwards probably. So there shouldn’t be too much discipline problems. But it’ll be strange teaching people who are only 5 or 6 years younger than me!
Very nice. All the best for your new role. I find it strange teaching people who’s parents are my age.