Teacher Placement
Well, two days ago I began my 3rd Year Teacher Placement in my old Junior School. When I first found out I was buzzing but getting nearer the time of actually going I was getting nervous... after all half the teachers there know me, they taught me, they know what I was like when I was the same age as the kids I'm expected to teach. But, alas, I went in yesterday and everyone was perfectly nice, infact they treat me like an old friend or something. It's kind of cool actually.
I'm in a class with one of my old (and favourite) teachers, who, in my last year at the Junior School began teaching and I was in his very first class there. He keeps asking if I'm seriously still wanting to be a teacher... I hope he's kidding but I don't know whether to be worried about the less than even content impression he gives of his few of teaching - after all I think he's only been teaching like ten years or something.
On the other hand he gave me what is possibly the best compliment anyone has ever given me, or would have been had it been under different circumstances. As it is I don't whether to be offended by what he said. See when asking if I was sure I wanted to teach (this was the first time he had asked) he told me that I was one of his few bright(est) students and could have aspired (my word not his... he used "been") to be anything. Now as it was I was quite proud of this, but it hit me that if that is the case, he must think I'm not - fulfilling my potential? - kind of thing. If y'know what I mean. This is what makes me take it more offencesively.... I just don't know. It's not like I'm that bothered really. I'm happy with what I'm doing and think that if I do it right I'll enjoy my career as a teacher... at least that's what I'm hoping...
I'm in a class with one of my old (and favourite) teachers, who, in my last year at the Junior School began teaching and I was in his very first class there. He keeps asking if I'm seriously still wanting to be a teacher... I hope he's kidding but I don't know whether to be worried about the less than even content impression he gives of his few of teaching - after all I think he's only been teaching like ten years or something.
On the other hand he gave me what is possibly the best compliment anyone has ever given me, or would have been had it been under different circumstances. As it is I don't whether to be offended by what he said. See when asking if I was sure I wanted to teach (this was the first time he had asked) he told me that I was one of his few bright(est) students and could have aspired (my word not his... he used "been") to be anything. Now as it was I was quite proud of this, but it hit me that if that is the case, he must think I'm not - fulfilling my potential? - kind of thing. If y'know what I mean. This is what makes me take it more offencesively.... I just don't know. It's not like I'm that bothered really. I'm happy with what I'm doing and think that if I do it right I'll enjoy my career as a teacher... at least that's what I'm hoping...