I can’t believe just how much I have been able to do throughout my Learning from Life placement. I’ve been so involved with production I’ve been in a bit of a seuss bubble, I’ve forgotten what it’s like to not be constantly singing show tunes. I have honestly had the best time ever with this placement. I’ve been able to become involved with things i’ve never had experience of before and my confidence has developed so much.
I have became so settled over here that I keep forgetting that I’m actually in Australia. Everyone I’ve worked with, from the council, to the libraries and especially the school have been so welcoming and supportive. My experience in the council has been fantastic and to be able to work so closely with important members of the Mandurah community has been invaluable. Helping to organise something as big a scale as stretch has been so rewarding and has allowed me to really appreciate the amount of effort that goes into planning and creating such events.
The library was so welcoming and I really miss being part of the team there, it was such a nice working environment to be a part in. Working closely with members of staff there has given me so many ideas for arts and crafts projects to take into future classrooms and I will be eternally grateful that I have been given an opportunity like this.
My experience at Mandurah Catholic College has been absolutely insane but fantastic. it has been so fast paced and fun to be so involved with putting together Seussical the Musical. My favorite part of being so involved with Seussical is watching the pupils confidence in themselves grow over the past two months. The cast all formed such strong friendships over the past 5 months that they have been involved with the show and to watch it all come together really was something special. The buzz in the air all weekend as they performed at MPAC was infectious and I truly fell privileged to be a part of it.
Personal Growth
Throughout my Learning from Life placement I really feel that I have developed a lot of my own interpersonal skills. My confidence in my own abilities has vastly improved as I have essentially been thrown in the deep end in everything I’ve done over here and absolutely loved it. It has been so manic but it has just meant I’ve had to push myself and adapt and I feel that I have adapted to many situations pretty well.
Being over here has really made me think about how I view myself as a teacher and the sort of teacher I want to become. Working with many staff members so closely over the past couple of weeks out of school hours has allowed me to witness they way they interact with pupils and has allowed me to model some of my own interactions and behavioural methods like them.
