...and please buy it a drink.
So I have another teaching placement this year. Six weeks in a school. However, there are two caveats:
1) It HAS to be an early years placement (meaning K-2).
2) Because I'm doing Special Education, it also needs to be a Special Ed. placement. (this does not restrict me when I go for teacher registration however)
I get allocated a place a little bit late and all seems well right?
Well, I rock up to the school on the day I'd been told and everything fell flat.
The mentor teacher was wonderful. but it was the wrong class. I'd been allocated a primary special needs placement. And the JP teacher didn't want me. To her credit, the reason why she didn't want me was based on the fact that the class is brand new to the school and she'll be brand new to the students.
So now I go on the merry-go-round of being REALLOCATED. Yay! -.-
I pretty much sent the uni a huge list of schools that I could consider as well as two that had been recommended by the mentor teacher.
So I'll be doing one of the following:
-Special Class. We narrowed it down to around 7 schools that had JP special ed classes (JP-Junior Primary, K-2) and of those, 2 of them had teachers I could consider.
-School for the Blind.
-School for kids who are deafblind or have multiple disabilities.
I should know soon.
But here's the real kicker: the uni knew full well that I needed a JP placement. What they told my first school was that I needed a PRIMARY placement. *headdesk*
So I have another teaching placement this year. Six weeks in a school. However, there are two caveats:
1) It HAS to be an early years placement (meaning K-2).
2) Because I'm doing Special Education, it also needs to be a Special Ed. placement. (this does not restrict me when I go for teacher registration however)
I get allocated a place a little bit late and all seems well right?
Well, I rock up to the school on the day I'd been told and everything fell flat.
The mentor teacher was wonderful. but it was the wrong class. I'd been allocated a primary special needs placement. And the JP teacher didn't want me. To her credit, the reason why she didn't want me was based on the fact that the class is brand new to the school and she'll be brand new to the students.
So now I go on the merry-go-round of being REALLOCATED. Yay! -.-
I pretty much sent the uni a huge list of schools that I could consider as well as two that had been recommended by the mentor teacher.
So I'll be doing one of the following:
-Special Class. We narrowed it down to around 7 schools that had JP special ed classes (JP-Junior Primary, K-2) and of those, 2 of them had teachers I could consider.
-School for the Blind.
-School for kids who are deafblind or have multiple disabilities.
I should know soon.
But here's the real kicker: the uni knew full well that I needed a JP placement. What they told my first school was that I needed a PRIMARY placement. *headdesk*
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