Why I became a teacher: to fulfil my childhood ambition

Andrew Kite

knew I wanted to be a teacher for eight years, after a wonderful experience in elementary school

actually became a teacher because of my great Year 3 and 4 teachers when I was in primary school. My teacher for three years, Mr Murcott was just wonderful in the primary forest French school on the northern beaches of Sydney. His lessons were very funny. My strongest memory is the learning speed reading with him, who put things up on the projector and go faster and faster. Loved it. So, really knew it would be a master of the age of eight.

Then I went to public school and had another brilliant professor Mimosa year 4. Mr. Bradford was really big in the sport. He took us to form the softball and T-ball (which is a bit like baseball) per day. We had to work very hard in the morning to get all our work which could take the time to practice all afternoon. Teachers can do this kind of thing in the 1970s.

I was very fortunate throughout my whole elementary years with my teachers. I did not like school very much. My father died when I was 10 years old, he messed up my last two years at school. I ended up being four brands that I had to get a degree in teaching, so I went to work in a bank for two years, then apply as a mature student. I had a three-year teaching diploma at the University of Technology Sydney, and then I came to the UK and did the job for two years. In early 1980, there were many teachers supply in Australia in British schools, my school had only seven years. I returned to Australia and did my last year in college to finish my studies and then return here.

I always wanted to teach elementary school, perhaps because of my teachers in primary inspiration, but also because I think I'm someone who prefers a little variety of teaching a subject at all times to take me nuts.

I loved teaching. I would not be at this point if I did not. I take all the bad with the good. I am a positive person to try to take things with a pinch of salt. We have a saying in Australia ". Same shit, different smell "And I think that sums it up. Whilst the grass may seem greener, there are actually shit in every job I'll ever do. This is the reality. I try to focus on good things. Like when children come back later and say it was his best year or when I became the children or parents around learning. This is not the end of the term for those cards thanks, but you get some good feedback.

guys are great. In many ways, the short sale. We need to ask what they want for their education, it is not lazy, they know what they want and if we help them bring their high expectations will go for it. I see a lot of my job is to expose them to higher expectations beyond wanting to be a footballer.

The downside of the job is "blame the teachers and the lack of time. You may feel guilty for not thinking every minute in school. You have this feeling Sunday as you know, you have to work at least one day of the weekend, and it was after a work week of 60 hours. You have to force yourself not to let his work cut out when the family, my son needs me too. Have already booked Wednesday night, date night, this is purely for my partner and I do the same with my son, who was lying in my reading corner in the sixth month. It can be very frustrating when the government begins to talk of the school are open up to eight hours working time more parents and cut school holidays. What our family time?

The advantage is how cute they are children. This is a first step kid who feel every day when students do something they could not do or when you show them interesting things - often the most satisfying is the case of the track. I turned in the Japanese language and the sign in my lessons for the hell of it. Learning is fun and all the cool stuff is there.

There are many jobs that you can be as creative and artistic. Of course, the government has tried to bully both teaching and new sentences on the unqualified teachers are crazy. I always say that a robot can come to teach it when I leave. Education policy has always been a bit of a pendulum in Australia and England. Whoever receives the poisoned gift of labor education minister wants to make his mark before moving to another area. But, after all, these are real people fuck up. All GCSE results makes me very sad. I know what it's like to not enter something for a couple of brands and devastating.

After my first decade of teaching, I felt that I needed a break. He was trapped in my work and desperate management capabilities, but in my school, it was a bit of a situation footwear death. You literally had to wait for someone to drop dead in order to move is not exactly healthy. I finally found a job as assistant director, then took a break of three years of study in the media, which was a great experience. I kept in the loop, working one day to two weeks in a school.

I think it's great that teachers have a break for many reasons not least, just to give a little space in the brain. The teachers work so hard, it is easy to burn. After this break was the best thing I did, but it was difficult to return to teaching at he left the profession. I quickly realized that I was considered for the role that would have been a step backwards. One of the criteria for most of the lists of candidates is to have two years experience in recent class, which basically means that I want you in the classroom for the past two years. So even if I had been in many classes the last two years, and had extensive relevant experience directly, such as talking to the Department of Education directly, I was not among the finalists. Oddly I ended up doing the work of teaching in a school that had applied for a job as an MP. After being there for a few days, I was invited to interview for the position key stage leader and got the job. This is the only drawback I would say on the treadmill, take a step back in can be difficult, because education is moving so quickly.
• So now I'm back to teaching. He had lost a lot of my three-year hiatus. At the end of summer, I am very excited about the new legislature. He told me that I'm crazy and in two weeks I will be stressed. But education is a bit like childbirth, you forget the painful things and go ahead and start over. If teachers do not have a summer break we would all nervous breakdowns.

So my advice for those new to the profession or training are:

. Find or make a hobby that you can disconnect at any time of the week. You must be a catch - and alcohol is not the answer. You'll be so busy, you have to be very firm with yourself to take time, but you need a switch. You can not run at full power all the time. I know that good teachers who spend every hour of work and ran into the ground. I always encourage tutoring teachers'm or direction to take some time. The reward is worth it. You will become a cooler master who can resist the drama. Teaching is always a thread, it's like keeping a lid on a pot of boiling water most of the time.

. Try not to take yourself too seriously - have a few laughs. Do not be too precious to all. Be flexible teaching is one of those jobs that change all the time. So many times my head as I walk to the front of the class, literally sing and dance with the multiplication tables or other. But we like to have fun.

. As a class, the value of children. Treat them as human beings. If you respect them, they are much more likely to respect you.

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