Primary teaching has been my desired career since work experience week, in Year Ten. It is a common misconception that teachers have easy lives, only working 9-3 Monday to Friday. I am very aware, through work experience and having teachers in the family, that it is, arguably, one of the most challenging and time-consuming careers. However, I see teaching as more of a vocation than a career and I am fully committed to undertaking the workload and improving my practise every day I teach.
I am currently studying PGCE Primary Education at the University of Wolverhampton. The course provides great opportunity for building teaching experience, with two blocks of school attachment. My previous attachment, which I have just completed, was in a Reception
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This included a Makaton beginners workshop. I completed the training alongside a few other members of full time staff, in order to support a partially deaf child who I was teaching.
The staff I worked with, all noted that I would be an asset to any school as I was fully capable to work with the team to ensure that the children were making progress each day. My University tutor defined the attachment as “highly successful” and ensured that I was graded well, to reflect the hard work and commitment that I provided.
Prior to this, I graduated from the University of Wolverhampton with a First Class BA (Hons) degree in Childhood and Family Studies and Education Studies. The course provided the opportunity to research about the field of education, how it has changed and the different education systems used in different European countries. One module in particular, that expanded my pedagogical knowledge, included me undertaking a placement in a Primary School to help further my professional and ethical development. I also undertook and completed a research project, which investigated the ‘Attitudes to learning at Key Stage 1’. The project explored the connection of some attitudes to learning, what constructs them and to what extent they can affect academic