The Fifty-third Republic - Ides of March Part 2

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Yay Mrs H you sound amazing so I don't know why you doubt yourself so. I agree. MrsH you will be an amazing AHT, remember to blow your own trumpet when you go to interview. Even if it all sounds "me, me, me" and that's not your normal style. It's an interview, everyone is "me, me, me" otherwise how would they know how amazing you are?

Name you need to listen to your own advice as well. you sound amazing so I don't know why you doubt yourself so. This applies to you as much as it does to MrsH, although you are at different stages of your careers. You can compete with all the other NQTs because you have experience with children, working as a TA gives you bags of valuable experience that many NQTs just don't have. Make a big thing of that!!!! You want to teach because you've seen amazing teachers making a difference and you want to be one! I know this from everything you've said on here. You already know a lot about building relationships with children, especially the most vulnerable ones, which is a massively important skill in teaching. When thinking about your interview, imagine what we would say about you (it's all complimentary) and say that. Even if it sounds fake to you, say it anyway.

It's definitely a confidence thing. I am naturally a quivering jelly but I come alive in the classroom.
I'm also trying to complete an application for a lead mentor qualification that I was involved in the groundwork for... and I'm not convinced I'll get that 😂
I think this job is up your way, mrsAd

am naturally a quivering jelly

I do not believe this for one second.

Ooh MrsH that's interesting. At the grammar school you say? I have friends who work there, and I considered sending dd1 there (decided against it for practical rather than idealogical reasons). It's very nice by all accounts. I think I used to work with their head of maths (I think he did a PGCE placement with us)

@MsAwesomeDragon

Yay Mrs H you sound amazing so I don't know why you doubt yourself so. I agree. MrsH you will be an amazing AHT, remember to blow your own trumpet when you go to interview. Even if it all sounds "me, me, me" and that's not your normal style. It's an interview, everyone is "me, me, me" otherwise how would they know how amazing you are?

Name you need to listen to your own advice as well. you sound amazing so I don't know why you doubt yourself so. This applies to you as much as it does to MrsH, although you are at different stages of your careers. You can compete with all the other NQTs because you have experience with children, working as a TA gives you bags of valuable experience that many NQTs just don't have. Make a big thing of that!!!! You want to teach because you've seen amazing teachers making a difference and you want to be one! I know this from everything you've said on here. You already know a lot about building relationships with children, especially the most vulnerable ones, which is a massively important skill in teaching. When thinking about your interview, imagine what we would say about you (it's all complimentary) and say that. Even if it sounds fake to you, say it anyway.

This is such good advice!

I was wrong about knowing their head of maths. The man I was thinking about doesn't seem to work there any more. He might have left there to become head of maths somewhere else. But it's a good school, that actually is fairly down to earth for a grammar school. Definitely go for it!!!!

Oh wow, now Republicans are going to end up all working in the same school! (OK not quite!)

Now there’s an idea, Jan. An all through school with an SEN base staffed by Republicans.

We’d have to find some PE teachers from somewhere though (and then not promote them to SLT).

Yeah, it's not the same school that I work in Jan, although I'd apply if the head of maths job came up there. Not for an "ordinary" classroom teacher though, as it's just that bit more of a commute than I'm prepared to do daily. It's about 45 minutes from me, and where I currently am is only 20 minutes (plus DH works in the same town as me right now so we only need one car)

That's the one MrsAD :)

We also don't seem to have any MFLers here, do we?

Non

Just had ANOTHER SI email from a student ...

I used to teach MFL.

But I have taught more or less everything.

Except science , obviously, otherwise I'd be on SLT.

What on Earth have your students all been doing? piggy? Or their families anyway.

I have no idea!

I guess it's the LFTs.

Only one of them mentioned family. The rest of them have been innocently and obediently sitting wedged up to someone in a classroom.

Really it should be year 9 - 11s all out. they cannot keep their hands off each other.

DS's schol with only two lessons a day and no social time to speak of looks more sensible by the minute.

Have you all done your census?

I've taught MFL but will graciously allow Piggy to take that treat.

My mum didn't believe in illness (except her own) and I had a horrible case of glandular fever in my teens and felt like death but was shouted at to get out of bed and stop pretending etc.

This EXACT same thing happened to me. We laugh about it now but I remember crawling into my dad's bedroom and waking him up and begging to go to the doctor. I feel awful too whenever I need a sick day as an adult. I actually cried calling our assistant headteacher when I had a stomach bug last autumn, even though everyone on my SLT couldn't be nicer or more supportive.

@Piggywaspushed

I used to teach MFL.

But I have taught more or less everything.

Except science , obviously, otherwise I'd be on SLT.

SLT at my old school was mostly English including at least one ‘expert’ that has been mentioned in previous threads.

I’ll do the primary MFL if French is ok. I don’t remember much of anything else.

We won't be offering Mandarin then.....

Honey can teach Arabic. And scuba diving. It'll be a USP.

My sister thought about training for MFL but then spent a week in my (really quite sane) NQT school and that was the end of that.

So... apart from the three subjects I teach now , I have taught : German, drama, PSE obviously, history (when they decided it was the same as English), communication and culture A Level, Theatre Studies, French, GNVQ business (fun times), a lesson of maths (not joking...), LS. Thankfully not PE but years ago they kept putting me down to cover boys' basketball.

I have a few bases covered. I did teach most of these very badly, mind!

Ha! One of my ex's is now a science teacher in Sydney and they teach the kids to dive as part of marine biology.

I'm not teaching them in England. I'm a fair weather diver.

Morning all. I woke naturally which was nice and the it was light and the sky is blue! Things are looking up.