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Playing it by ear on placement!
What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, my answer is simple, a teacher. As I got older and somewhat wiser it didn’t change. Ever since I can remember I have wanted to teach, from helping with the Sunday school memory verses to trying to teach my brother to hold my violin.…
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AEL. 3001. 2023. BLOGS
AEL. 3001. 2023. BLOGS Encountering my initial experiences: A ‘Blast 106’ and ‘Cinemagic’ story Wouldn’t you like to know… BY Erin Dudgeon Following a catch up with my best friend Rachel in the summer, she brought up so casually the dreaded question about our 3rd year of university “Have you got anywhere sorted for work…
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Saved by the school bell…or doomed?
First days are usually nothing short of a dream- or so I thought. I could not suppress the mixture of both excitement and nerves for the journey ahead. I took a deep breath and straightened my new shiny ‘St. Conor’s College– Classroom Assistant’ lanyard. I stepped into the unfamiliar building and swiftly made my way down the…
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Work Experience Thoughts
For my blog post on my initial time with the work-based learning module, I will be following the structure set out by Gibbs Reflective Cycle (Gibbs, 1988). Starting out my module I kept a short diary on my notes app following the structure set out by the Dundalk Institute of Technology (Libguides: Reflective Practice: Reflective…
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A Survival Guide to Primary School Placement
A day in the life of a primary school teacher is not simply teaching children how to tell the time, or the difference between an adjective and a verb; there is so much more to it. As I have ventured into the world of primary teaching at St. Patrick’s Primary School Moneymore https://www.stpatricksmoneymore.co.uk/, I’ve come…
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What to say when you aren’t being listened to.
“Seventy-seven percent of teachers admit that their teaching would be more effective if they did not have to spend so much time dealing with disruptive students.” [1] Canter; 2004 In the final weeks of August 2023, I had the privilege of participating in two weeks of classroom assistant training with Assumption Grammar Schoolhttps://www.assumptiongrammar.org.uk/ . This course…
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“Those who can, do: those who can’t, teach”; Listen here, George Bernard Shaw…
When I tell people of my dream vocation, a secondary school teacher, they often scoff the stereotypical George Bernard Shaw quote, “Those who can, do: those who can’t, teach”[1]. I wish Shaw, and all those who scoff at my career aspirations had stood beside me in my fifth week of placement in St. Malachy’s College,…
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Love, Laugh, Live Sound
“They tend not to be looking specifically for great engineers, rather good all-rounders with a broad set of skills.” Jon Burton. (2012). How To Become A Pro Live Sound Engineer- Sex, Lies & Gaffer Tape. [Online]. SoundOnSound. Last Updated: Nov. Available at: https://www.soundonsound.com/people/how-become-pro-live-sound-engineer [Accessed 16 November 2023]. I like the above quotation that I came across…
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IT’S NOT AS EASY AS IT SEEMS!!!
First Impressions Being a teaching assistant, I thought would be relatively straightforward. I did not envisage myself helping children eat their lunch, put on their coats, or even clean up their sick! Within the first day of my placement I had to do all of these tasks and more. When I naively walked into the…
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“If you don’t ask, you don’t get!”
The challenge of finding a placement for my course was weighing heavily on me – it would be one of the most important ‘asks’ I had faced. One of the main themes from guest speakers on our course began to echo in my head. Given the fiercely competitive nature of the film industry they had…