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  • Approaching fast!

    I have served eighty three hours so far – doesn’t it sound like I am serving my time in prison?! So far so good and I haven’t changed my mind about wanting to be a teacher! My teaching is getting busier and busier by the week. There...

  • Another tiring week!

    It has been an interesting and tiring week! My observation from Uni was four days ago and I was very pleased with the feedback. The observer thought I was very professional and I had a good natural teaching ability – wow that made my week! After...

  • An interesting week!

    Another hectic and tiring week! My second observation was completed without a hitch! The feedback from the observer was good and yet again I picked the most challenging group! However, the group behaved reasonably well and were very co-operative, even...

  • Week ending 4th Feb 2010!

    A very hectic and tiring week! I have been working flat out for the last six days: Uni assignment and lesson plan non-stop! I am glad I don’t have to prepare a lesson plan for tomorrow. I can just sit back and be one of those college students ‘Wat...

  • Unhappy week!

    I have had a very bad experience this week, fortunately not with the students but with one of the staff. To cut the story short ‘the person’ in question emailed the Head of Department and all team members for a very petty thing about me and...

  • Mr First Assessment from my mentor and ......

    My first assessment- 9:05am and still no sign of my mentor! The course co-ordinator came into the class to tell me my mentor was going to be 10 minutes late, and immediately she offered to do my assessment instead. I thought the mentor had asked her to...

  • My new year's blog 2010

    I have amalgamated my two weeks teaching reflection into one. Like many colleges in Wales, Newport Coleg had been closed due to the severe bad weather. It was unfortunate that it interrupted my teaching schedules, but I was able to deliver my lectures...

  • 4th week of placement

    The fourth week of my placement and the last week prior to X’mas break! Hooray! I haven’t had problems with students this week but I have discovered that there are a lot of political issues going around the department. On late Sunday night...

  • 3rd week of placement

    The third week of my placement is over. It seems awful for me to keep counting the number of my placement weeks and it sounds as if I am not enjoying it which Is not true. I am in fact, enjoying my teaching very much and I think I have made the right...

  • 2nd week of placement!

    My second week of placement! Guess what I did yesterday? I gave my students a real dressing down. It was only a one hour lesson but it took 20 minutes to get everyone’s attention. I got so mad and yet I dared raise my voice at them, if these had...

  • My first week of placement

    I finished my first week of placement and accumulated 10.5 hours. I would say in general the week went without a hitch, as I had already met the students during my observation so they were all very pleased to see me, except for the fact that I had to...

  • My last day of observation

    Today was the best day of my observation week because the tutor deliberately chose to demonstrate the ‘Graphical Organiser’ technique to me. It's a very effective and memorable technique and I was impressed by how well the the students...

  • 3rd day of observation

    I have just completed my third day of observation at Coleg Gwent. The group of students whom I observed today were the same group of 16-year-olds at the BTEC Natcional 1st year lesson on Monday. Today was a tutorial lesson where they had to design a Health...

  • 2nd day of observation

    I completed my second day of observation at Coleg Gwent yesterday. I attened a Business Studies class comprising a group of sixteen 16-year-olds at BTec National 1st year level. The tutor who I obeserved today is the Co-ordinator for the Business Studies...

  • 1st day of observsation

    I have completed my first day of observation at Coleg Gwent. I attended four different classes three of which were Business Studies classes and one Key Skill unit. In all the lessons I was pleased that both the tutor and the pupils made me feel welcome...
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