Hello everyone, sorry I haven’t blogged
in forever, I’ve been super busy with work, placement, my studies and obviously
trying to squeeze in a social life at the same time!
So in this blog I wanted to talk about
where my life is at the moment, in terms of me teaching and becoming an FE
teacher. The last time I blogged about teaching was way back in the distant
year of 2014, when I began my placement at Bird College. I can confirm that I
am still loving it and life at Bird is amazing, they are treating me well J Since beginning way back then I am now teaching five
classes all by myself. I am teaching three groups from the Pre-Professional
Foundation Year and two groups from the first year diplomas. They are all
really lovely and have helped my training experience to be a good one, I think
if I had really bad classes then I would be going bald and not enjoying
teaching at all, but they have made me feel comfortable in establishing myself
as a teacher.
Teaching at Bird College has not only
helped me to love teaching, but it has also re-ignited my love for Drama and
for Acting and Performing. I mean, what other lesson can you attend and be a
fireman, a pirate, a doctor, a politician etc. The thing I love about
performing arts is you can be whoever you want to be and you can escape the
real world, escape your life for five minutes and just be someone else. When I
was in college I had no problem getting up in front of an audience and playing
a part, but as soon as I had to get up and speak as myself and talk to people,
I became really shy. In my second year of college we did a production of Beauty and the Beast in which I played
Cogsworth the talking clock and this role included acting, dancing and singing
(I’m an awful singer by the way) but I didn’t care because it wasn’t me singing
it was Cogsworth, the old British talking clock. After the show as it was my
final year, I was nominated to stand up in front of the whole cast, technical
team and audience in order to give out all of the thanks to the various helpers
and I was more nervous for that than I was for the show.
I think throughout my degree I really
lost touch with why I loved performing so much as a) I didn’t get to do it much
and b) I didn’t really have a good time on the course. So coming to Bird and
imparting my knowledge on to these young adults has been absolutely amazing and
more than I could have ever dreamed of. I have three weeks left of placement
and I am going to be really sad when I leave as I love it there so much. The
students have really helped me to grow as a teacher and I have learnt a lot
from them, and I hope that they have learned from me.
Once this placement is finished I plan
to finish off the summer worker at the Enquiry Unit as part of the Clearing
team (which I have done for the past two years). If you are a current
University of Greenwich student and looking for work over the summer then we
are recruiting for Clearing Assistants, it’s a very good way to learn some good
office skills that can be transferable into almost any job, and you get paid
well. So all is good. https://jobs.gre.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=JS0142-15. I hope to start a full time job come September, if
there is one out there for me.
Speak soon J
