Anyone else start college tomorrow?

[Jssy]

Well in the end couldn't do an access course but I'm doing 2 years - Level 3 extended diploma in health and social care with 100 hour placement & GCSE Biology. I got accepted today and start next Wednesday. Now to email sixth form and tell them i am not to be returning. I've already seen tweets from students telling our head the same and him replying 'oh thats a shame' so I feel a bit bad haha

[Empired]

@lawrawrrr; @Inseriousity.; looking young's got nothing to do with whether or not you're good at teaching. I come from a house full of teachers (grandma, mum and an old lodger/family friend) who taught at all different ages, it's the way you act and how confident you appear rather than looking young.
My mum started teaching at 21 and has never really had any trouble. My grandma didn't start until she was 37 and I don't know that much about it, but she stuck at it until she retired and didn't seem to be permanently damaged by it. Our lodger just crashed and burned though. Left a Cambridge college at 21 with a first (or like the top bracket whatever idk about universities yet) and went straight into teaching. Then had a nervous breakdown three years later.

It seems to me it just depends what kind of person you are. You're either suited for the job or you're not.

O/T: no, got another year of sixth form ahead of me. And then the job hunting can really start (A)

[Inseriousity.]

yes but my point was that if you don't feel that confident to teach, if you got some life experience and grew out of teenage insecurities you could build confidence and return to it at a later time if you still have that passion to do it. if you never got that confidence then you could just focus on the career you've got

[Kardan]

I wouldn't describe myself as having much confidence (especially in front of strangers), but I'm under the impression that one of the things I'm going to get/improve upon on my PGCE course is confidence.

[Jssy]

I want to be a midwife but I'm kind of getting put off with even that and leaning to adult nursing. I guess I'll know which I prefer during placement

[Meerkat.$]

I start my 1st year at college on the 3rd September and I'm bricking one, doing professional cookery and only know one person doing it...

[Empired]

yes but my point was that if you don't feel that confident to teach, if you got some life experience and grew out of teenage insecurities you could build confidence and return to it at a later time if you still have that passion to do it. if you never got that confidence then you could just focus on the career you've got

true, and I guess if you have one bad experience early on that knocks your confidence so more things go wrong. might be easier to get back up if you have a bit more life experience and you'll have practiced thinking on your feet
children are like wolves, they can smell your fear

[Cody]

Nope. I decided to teach for one year and realised very early on that it wasn't for me.. but I still had to fulfil my one year contract.



I never wanted to be a teacher that was just experience gathering which turned out to be quite successful because I was observed teaching and put on to bigger and better things Not to worry anyway I've pretty much been in constant employment since I started working. I've just been promoted actually.. a job of which I start September 1st.

Oh wow, congrats to you then!

[lawrawrrr]

I've been teaching kids for erm 5 years now, only really seriously for the last 2, I found it odd myself being close to those in age, and I know when I was at school I didn't respect the fresh-out-of-university teachers as much as the older ones :/

[Empired]

I've been teaching kids for erm 5 years now, only really seriously for the last 2, I found it odd myself being close to those in age, and I know when I was at school I didn't respect the fresh-out-of-university teachers as much as the older ones :/

I was the opposite. Found I could connect more with the younger ones as the older ones were just trying to force authority over me all the time.