Day One

Well that was day one. I'm absolutely pooped as I've spent all day on high alert pretty much. Feel like I spent most of the day wandering the corridors (which all look identical, by the way) trying desperately to keep up with my student. We were shadowing students today you see, and of course they know where they're going so tend to steam off at a million miles an hour... More shadowing tomorrow.

I don't know if I'm cut out for this teaching malarkey at all. Really. One positive thing I learned today is that the way they teach science is that they concentrate on biology first, then chemistry and then physics as the year progresses. So that essentially means that I should get away with not having to do any physics! Much awesomeness!

Having said I don't think I'm cut out for it, I can see why people like teaching and it certainly does take a certain kind of resilient person to do it. Even just helping out in the classes today, I can see that those moments when the penny drops and the kids actually 'get' what is that they're doing and learning, are worth it. I can also see how some kids just get completely left behind in the system. With so many pupils and most of the attention going on the ones that are misbehaving, the quiet ones that are struggling just get forgotten. I think there's too much pressure on teachers to be too many things to the kids and do too many things in their working day. I think I saw some examples of good teaching today, but also some less than stellar teaching.

Wonder what tomorrow holds?