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Restructuring and Rescheduling: Integrating placement into daily routine
AEL3001 Blog Post 2 Description: One of the most challenging aspects of placement was integrating and balancing placement into my daily routine. Starting my placement with Ekco towards the end of August allowed me to create a general timetable and routine before starting back for first semester, with most classes taking place at the weekend…
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Grading Dilemmas: Embracing Fairness Amidst the Drama of Student Assessments…
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Reflections on simulated interviews in the creative industry
Introduction, ‘Description’: In this blog, I will expand on the learning and development the simulated interviews prompted and how I plan on utilising the information gained in developing my career opportunities. I will expand upon how my experience in this situation relates to the reflective learning diagrams spoken about in my previous blog post. As…
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The Clash
Disagreements between employer and employees are not anything new for most people. Rare for some, often for others, but they do tend to happen in most workplaces or working environments (even freelance). Alongside disagreements tend to follow some clash of opinions, misunderstandings or different ways of doing certain things. This is, by far, quite normal…
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Escaping the Simulation
The job interview – the classic staple of recruitment, a tried and true method for a company to narrow down the best candidates who’ve applied to their post… and the absolute worst nightmare of anyone who lives with crippling social anxiety like myself. Unfortunately, if you want to end up in employment, these situations are…
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My Journey of Growth & Learning
“Reflection is one of the most important building blocks and drivers of human learning.” (Higgins) Teaching, in my opinion, is a vocation that requires continuous reflection and progress. As an educator, every classroom experience is an opportunity for self-evaluation and development. In this blog, I will use Boud’s model of reflection to discuss my experience working…
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Break a leg: Overcoming challenges
Stepping into a brand-new environment like with my time at Tinderbox Theatre Company can be nerve-wracking. I had accepted a place here without any prior understanding of how a theatre company works. Yet, I was excited to learn more about something that I enjoyed seeing. I can admit now that I had never stopped to…
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Seamless Simulated Interviews
AEL3001 Work-based Learning Blog 2 In this blog, I will use Gibbs’ reflective cycle as a guide whilst outlining my reflective writing surrounding my experience of the simulated interviews that occurred in Semester 2 week 3. There are six stages to Gibbs’ model that each pose a question, see the image below (Gibbs, 1988). It…
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The Interview!
In this blog post I have decided to talk about the simulated interviews and how I found them surprisingly tough but very beneficial. I have never done a serious interview before in my 20 years. My first job was practically given to me by a family member and as for my second job the person…
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The Inevitable Battle of the Simulated Interview
Applying for jobs is always exciting, there’s no doubt in that. But for every butterfly of excitement there is also an existential dread for one inevitable part of the process, the interview. Regardless of how badly I have ever wanted a job the knowledge that an interview is an unavoidable enemy that must be defeated…