Right so once again, I have not posted for several weeks and again it is due to being caught up with various other things in life like uni and prac and swing dancing adventures and stuff like that. It occurs to me of course that if I don't up date on a far more regular basis then I will be forced to say things like this all the time when I do get around to updating. None the less I am apparently not very disciplined with this blog. A while ago I do recall saying that I would update more regularly, I will really, I will. It is partly down to feeling that I don't have anything of particular note to say. Not really sure why that would stop me since it doesn't stop me from talking bollocks to people face to face!
So since I went back to uni things have been kind of crazy busy what with prac and assignments to do. But it has been super fun. I love my course, it is hard and hurts my brain but only in a really good "yay my brain is no longer atrophying from disuse" kind of way. Prac was fabulous, I was with a grade 6 at a local primary school. Now the thing is that this school was in an upper middle class, fairly urban area of Hobart so the school was a pretty well off school in terms of well money, but also community support and parental involvement so I was already at a distinct advantage. Add to that the fact that my colleague teacher was awesome: enthusiastic, supportive, encouraging both to me a s a student teacher and to the kids. And the kids, fabulous, smart, sweet, interesting and interested. So really I managed to have the best prac karma in the world. I am a little worried about future prac karma, especially after some of the horror stories that I have heard!
Don't get me wrong, the kids weren't angels, there were still your normal behavioural things do deal with, kids calling out, arguing, being generally noisy, off task talking, teasing, but really, if those are the things you have to deal with, you've pretty much got nothing to worry about, I figure!
And what these kids could do, it was incredible. The school had decided to have a science fair focused around renewable energy which the two grade 6 classes were to run. Now this in and of itself is no big deal really, but what was amazing is that the teachers only found out a week before this was supposed to happen and the kids only had three days to get everything ready, to learn enough about different renewable energy sources to be able to speak about them confidently, to figure out how to do experiments and to create posters before they were supposed to actually run this science fair for all the other kids in the school. And they did it! In three days they organised and ran a really successful, fun and interesting science fair. I was so impressed with them!
I was pretty sad to leave them at the end of the three weeks, but I have arranged to come back this term and volunteer at the school every fortnight so I will see them again, yay! I was very concerned about the time between pracs, I thought that I would loose all the hard work that I put into it and the confidence that I gained in the almost 8 months between pracs so I thought that I had better do some volunteer work.
And that is my awesome prac story! Perhaps I will update in the next few days with another awesome story. :)
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