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No words can explain how deeply people want to connect with each other. How much pain they will suffer trying to be accepted, to be valued and to be loved. The yearning to be wanted is probably the most trauma that some individuals will ever inflict up on themselves. No matter race, colour, creed, sexual orientation, religion, culture, gender, age or any other factor, what everyone wants is to belong, to connect, to be loved. It is so easy to reach out to someone yet, for some it is the most difficult thing to find someone to connect to. Reach out to those you meet in your daily march. You just never know whose life you might touch, what spark, even unknowingly, you may make.

Thursday, 23 August 2012

Final Teaching Practice - Week 3 of 7

So far so good, but after saying that I realise there is so much more I don't know than what I do. Thankfully, everyone at my placement continues to be more than supportive and as the weeks progress they get even more supportive. 

I had the opportunity to post test a class today after giving them the initial test 3 weeks ago. It was such a relief to see that every student had improved their grade which, as I see it, shows I did something right!!!! Phew . . . Three and a half hours of exam supervision today had my poor 'ole feets throbbing. I must have walked miles up and down and up and down the isles. After an office job where my backside barely left a chair for 12-16 hours a day, spending 3.5 hours on my feet constantly running from one student to the next was a shock to the wee toe-digits. I really should have worn trainers! hahahaha...... Difficult to believe I tramped around the whole of Stewart Island several times. My poor round squishy self wouldn't manage that now. Once this Diploma is done I think its time to get a health balance back in play, and get some of these earthquake kilos off once and for all.

Anyway, I digress! All is well and I couldn't have hoped for a better placement even the junior class was much noisier than preferred today. I am thinking to place them in a seating plan on Monday just to separate those that seem not to be able to control themselves in certain pairings or groupings. Will they hate me I wonder? Is it overkill considering every student did improve their grade in the post test..... hmmmm...... I may take the risk and see.

Well, off to write my weekly reflections and section log before Coro starts (Kaz - I know you are rolling your eyes now - lol).

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