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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Nursery Week Placement...

On Monday I have my day visit at a nursery. I have day on Monday and then the week beginning Nov. 6th I’m in full time for 6 weeks.

This nursery is completely different to any other placements I've done. Firstly it’s a nursery and secondly it's ALL ok slight exaggeration mainly all white. It’s also quite a good nursery which makes a change from working in deprived asain schools!

The nursery is linked to the primary school so I’m hoping to meet some of the school teachers and hopefully get them on board for next years IAD. They have their own UP TO DATE webpage, I would link the site but I don't wanna break any ethnic codes especially those concerning kids! After looking at the website I realised they have high expectations that mixed with the fact I might just be the only asain there I’m compelled to make a good impression. SO much so that I spent 3 hours in the library on Friday going over what tasks I need to carry out whilst there, making notes, highlighting and actually reading up on the foundation curriculum and preparing my file. I already have my dividers labelled and inserted in to a file which in turn is clearly labelled as NWK placement. I normally do this half way through the year or a week before its all due in for inspection by an arrogant old man whose advice on good teaching practice is not to smile at kids!

Anyway I introduced myself to the deputy head last week and she seemed really friendly abit scatter brained (she couldn't remember what day it was) but I’m glad because now I have something in common with her!

I'm kinda nervous about the placement especially after looking at everything I need to do! But at the same time I’m looking forward too it. Teaching is the only thing that brings butterflies to my stomach but also the best feeling.


I always tend to pray more when I’m on placement mostly asking for help and guidance on my teaching it makes me feel closer to Allah (swt) so really looking forward to having that feeling again.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

grrrrr!
I didn't lose it!! I found it all when I clicked on 'october' on the right hand side, wonder why it doesn't show the latest post....hmmm o well can't get help on fixing it because i'm not telling anyone about it yet! Think this is enough posts for one day.
I lost my 2nd post!! something I had predicted but thought I had been clever enough to avoid! Dammit this blog is ment to motivate me in to keeping a learning journal of my teaching experiance but instead its quickly turning in to an annoying peice of junk!

Finally created a blog...not planning on telling anyone about it just yet. Hopefully this will give me the motivation to keep a 'Learning Journal' (LJ hence the blog name) that I keep being pestred about at uni.


The LJ is supposed to be an account of your teaching experiance. Something to build up and look back on. Its supposed to inspire, motivate and help you improve your teaching....hmmmm only time will tell weather or not it actually works!


Before I start writing about teaching stuff i'm gonna fiddle around with this and see if I can actually figure out how to work everything on it - no point writing stuff if I just end up deleting it by acceident!



The spelling icon doesn't work, that or I have no spelling mistakes.....yeah right!! The image icon works, gonna have to remember to pick where I want the image before I upload next time. The colour icon isn't working, maybe if I highlight and then click it...ahh there we go! Want to try out the little eraser icon but it says something about removing formatting and I get the feeling that might be the 'accident' which will delte all of this post!
Testing...