Wow, that sounds incredibly hard and real. Good for you for completing it, and better yet, for the realistic yet confident attitude you are taking from it.
Man, that's harsh! One of my friends went to a three-year training college straight out of school and described it as an interval of time designed only to make the teachers older than the students. And my ex did a one-year course after university which he described as "a holiday". Sounds like your training was rather more useful, and congratulations on landing a job.
Stage 1: WHAT RIDICULOUS NONSENSE SPEWED BY IDIOTS**. Stage 2: Oh, yeah! *edits*.
OH GOD YES. For some reason this is particularly bad for me when it comes from my agent. At least when you recognise the pattern you know to wait it out till the red mist passes.
Yeah, I know the other training college in Christchurch, for example, turns out some damn fine teachers, but (from limited observation of the one very pleasant dude I worked with in one school) the workload is not comparable.
Okay you had no way of knowing this, halfway around the world, but that was EXACTLY the inspiration story that I--a teacher having an absolute crapfest of a year--needed to hear.
I've been teaching for eleven years, and I have been an excellent teacher for most of them. Sometimes we fall down the ladder, too--but usually there is someone as wonderful as you to help us back up.
Welcome to the sisterhood--siblinghood! I'm really glad you're here.
Well done! It sounds like a fantastic prep course for teaching. Sadly, I have very mixed feelings about my teacher training - there were moments of brilliance, mingled with some of the worst teaching I have ever experienced (ironically). Might well have something to do with my not being in the profession any more, sadly. I'm not sure what the stats are like in NZ, but in Australia, half of new teachers have left withing five years. I beat that, but not by much. I was in a pretty high stress position though.
Have a great time! There's no other job quite like it, and I do still miss it.
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Talking about my writing job will continue!
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Stage 1: WHAT RIDICULOUS NONSENSE SPEWED BY IDIOTS**.
Stage 2: Oh, yeah! *edits*.
OH GOD YES. For some reason this is particularly bad for me when it comes from my agent. At least when you recognise the pattern you know to wait it out till the red mist passes.
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I've been teaching for eleven years, and I have been an excellent teacher for most of them. Sometimes we fall down the ladder, too--but usually there is someone as wonderful as you to help us back up.
Welcome to the sisterhood--siblinghood! I'm really glad you're here.
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Have a great time! There's no other job quite like it, and I do still miss it.
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