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Throughout my life i have always been drawn to caring for others and in recent years i have debated a number of different career paths such as education, nursing, physiotherapy etc.  the most common theme amongst these was that i knew i wanted to choose a line of work where i could make a difference […] Continue reading →

A career in teaching has always appealed to me throughout my education and childhood. During my time throughout secondary school I worked closely with children from going out on primary teaching placements to being a paired reader for first year children. I believe the skills required to provide children with an excellent education and to […] Continue reading →

From the start of my high school career, I wanted to be a PE teacher. My great aunt and uncle were both PE teachers, my cousin was studying at Uni to be a PE teacher. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. Up until around fourth year I was adamant this is what I wanted […] Continue reading →

The first question everyone asks when we begin our journey to become a teacher is why? Most student teachers would try to pin point one reason: one teacher they had or one day at school or one experience. For me, there are many reasons. I guess the simplest and yet most fundamentally important one is […] Continue reading →

Being a christian I have had the unique opportunity to help with several groups for young children and be a leader at the Christian Youth Camp in Shetland. I have been apart of the children’s group at my church for many years. First having gone along from a young age and then later helping out […] Continue reading →

Towards the end of my Primary School Year’s, I moved from Newcastle to Dundee. It wasn’t until this point that I had the chance to reflect on the impact my first school had on me as a person. To my family and I, it wasn’t just a school, it was a community. The teachers had […] Continue reading →

One of the main reasons that I want to be a teacher is my Granny, who used to teach but was forced to retire early due to cancer. Thankfully she is still alive and cured. My Granny has told me many stories about teaching and how rewarding it is, so from a young age it …

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I love to learn. The way I see it, there is no better way of continuing to learn than becoming a teacher myself. To be given an opportunity to work in an environment where every day will be different; where every day I can wake up and not dread having to drag myself to work; […] Continue reading →

Like many other teachers to be, i was inspired by my own experiences in school with my teachers. After struggling with mathematics for years and having teachers who just did not support me, it made me appreciate when i finally was taught by a teacher who took many different approaches and put in the time …

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Becoming a teacher is something i have always seen myself doing. People often have a key experience or thing that has happened in their life which has influenced their chosen career path. For me, it was always about being able to inspire and make a difference to someones life that drew me to the idea […] Continue reading →

There are so many different reasons as to why I want to become a teacher, some of which stem all the way back to primary school, another reason is because of my family (my younger brother) and the last reason is to share my positive experiences from my time at school to younger generations and […] Continue reading →

When I was young, my life used to be all about dance and I wanted to grow up to be a dancer. As I got older, I started to volunteer and help teach classes at my dance school. I started to really enjoy helping others master and overcome difficult challenges and began to think that […] Continue reading →

It didn’t surprise any of my family or friends when I told them I was applying to university to become a primary school teacher. Why? The reason why was because whenever I was asked what I wanted to be when I was older, they were always met with the same response, which was of course […] Continue reading →