This week I started my fourth and final practicum of my teaching degree! What a week it has been but it most certainly has been one of the best first weeks of practicum I have ever experienced - so many highs throughout a slightly disruptive week but at the same time I have already learnt so much, feel much more confident in my teaching ability and also am beginning to feel more equipped and ready for what lies ahead in my teaching career.
Matamata Primary School is certainly an amazing place to do a teaching practicum and after the vast range of experiences I have had throughout my teaching degree, I am highly valuing the place and position I am in right now - this particular experience is one I know I will look back on and note it was a defining point in my career... certainly a positive defining point.
The staff are so welcoming,friendly and helpful - willing to share so much knowledge and expertise with you as a student teacher. The students are honest and truthful yet just as amazing as the staff and really and truly have pride in their school which gives the school a real strong positive feeling. Just the whole school has so much to offer and share with others yet this is also done in a real relaxed and down to earth kind of way.
It is a school that offers so much and really involves the community in what they are doing as well as being active participants in what the community is doing and from a future teacher perspective, this is one school I would love to work and teach in, one school community that I could really see myself being a part of.
On my first day of practicum, I taught PE with the students - let me just say it was slightly scary for day 1 but it was a real learning experience.
I have already been given so much responsibility, been a part of the school life and really just been thrown in the deep end which could have been in a way that I either ended up sinking or swimming. Through the positive support and mentoring through this first week I can say I have definitely been more of a swimmer this time round rather than a sinker and hope and pray things continue to help me swim over the next five weeks.
I am extremely appreciative of what I have already been offered and been exposed to in this first week and with much delight and excitement, I very much look forward to how the next five weeks will unfold before my eyes.
Time to get off and get some sleep/pack for camp/enjoy the week that was and look forward to what is to come :)
Mrs Feldon over and out!
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