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Jun. 9th, 2006 06:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyOne bus completely not turning up is annoying. The next bus then being late? That starts to make me angry. When, on top of that, Boots closes ten minutes early so I still can't pick up my photos in spite of caning it and sweating like a horse? That just takes the piss, that does.
There was a bright spot, though. I've received the official letter offering me a job in September.
I don't think I've actually said at any great length what the job is going to be, so. A little in the way of explanation.
I'm going to be working as a learning support assistant in a college just up the road from where my parents live. The college is not one that takes students with particularly high marks; a lot of the courses they do are vocational, and there are several students with learning or physical difficulties. Sometimes I'll be supporting a teacher, helping out with a whole class, sometimes I'll be assisting an individual pupil in a class, sometimes I'll be assisting an individual off by a computer somewhere. There's also going to be a bit of physical support, helping with toilet breaks and the like. I'll be helping out in all different subjects, although they showed a lot of enthusiasm about the English degree so that might well take precedence.
It's going to be 30 hours a week, so a lot of time for writing, starting at 8:25 and finishing at 3:50 every day. It's entirely possible I can do an English Literature A-level (which I need before I can take a PGCE) at the college; if not, there'll be plenty of time to do an evening class elsewhere and I'll definitely be able to fit it in. I also expressed an interest in learning sign language, which I've been wanting to do pretty much since my first school which was a hearing impaired unit. Since two of the students coming to the college in the autumn are hearing impaired, they've said they will try and do what they can to get me on any available courses.
It sounds like a lot of responsibility, a lot of adaptability, a lot of stress and hell does it sound fun. I'm looking forward to it hugely; it'll be an excellent test of whether or not I can actually stick the whole teaching thing.
The fact that it'll look good on my PGCE applications is just a bonus.
There was a bright spot, though. I've received the official letter offering me a job in September.
I don't think I've actually said at any great length what the job is going to be, so. A little in the way of explanation.
I'm going to be working as a learning support assistant in a college just up the road from where my parents live. The college is not one that takes students with particularly high marks; a lot of the courses they do are vocational, and there are several students with learning or physical difficulties. Sometimes I'll be supporting a teacher, helping out with a whole class, sometimes I'll be assisting an individual pupil in a class, sometimes I'll be assisting an individual off by a computer somewhere. There's also going to be a bit of physical support, helping with toilet breaks and the like. I'll be helping out in all different subjects, although they showed a lot of enthusiasm about the English degree so that might well take precedence.
It's going to be 30 hours a week, so a lot of time for writing, starting at 8:25 and finishing at 3:50 every day. It's entirely possible I can do an English Literature A-level (which I need before I can take a PGCE) at the college; if not, there'll be plenty of time to do an evening class elsewhere and I'll definitely be able to fit it in. I also expressed an interest in learning sign language, which I've been wanting to do pretty much since my first school which was a hearing impaired unit. Since two of the students coming to the college in the autumn are hearing impaired, they've said they will try and do what they can to get me on any available courses.
It sounds like a lot of responsibility, a lot of adaptability, a lot of stress and hell does it sound fun. I'm looking forward to it hugely; it'll be an excellent test of whether or not I can actually stick the whole teaching thing.
The fact that it'll look good on my PGCE applications is just a bonus.
