I graduated from the Academy of Physical Education in 1999. Since 2003, I have been working as a teacher, initially in Poland. I have had the opportunity to teach pupils and students aged from 7 to 20 years old with different abilities and backgrounds. For two years, I have been also a Tutor of group of students with Special Educational Needs, physically and mentally disabled.
In 2007, I began my teaching career in Great Britain. Initially, I worked as a Voluntary Secondary Teaching Assistant at The Middlefield School of Technology in Gainsborough. It allowed me to gather a great deal of experience and what the most important was, it became a great opportunity to explore the distinctions in educational systems, organisations, strategies of teaching and learning and of course the National Curriculum in comparison to own knowledge .
The great experience for me is also my current position - cover supervisor. The cover supervisor position does not require any specific qualification, however speaking a foreign language and having a different subject to take, allow me to get a wide range of vocabulary. I treat that as a part of my professional development, but at the same time I remember I
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The main reason to undertake that challenge was for me to find some teaching strategies, inspirational technics to be able to interest and motivate students and make lessons more enjoyable. Despite the fact that my teaching qualifications are in PE, which as a subject is very distinct from any classroom subjects, I have graduated from a polish university. The British system of education is unlike the Polish one, setting some other challenges. In order to be able to understand it fully, I needed to gather some information based on methodology of a subject in that specific system of