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Today in our IT input, we were taught about the importance of our eportfolio and how essential reflection will be throughout our whole career. A great way to combine both is by making a blog which we all created together as a class! I’m so glad we did this as I would never have managed […]

Today in our IT input we were making our Eportfolio’s. We were asked to write a post explaining why we had decided to chose this course and teaching as a career. These blogs will come in great for writing our experiences and strengths and weaknesses for the future. My reasoning behind becoming a teacher was […]

Why not? I have never understood the reasons behind others not wanting to become teachers. I love working with children, watching them grow as individuals and seeing their enthusiasm towards learning. I have always liked the idea of becoming a teacher, after gaining experience however, I now love the idea of becoming a teacher.  As cliché as it sounds, working […]

Teaching has been a career I have wanted to be part of ever since primary. I never had a teacher that made me think “teaching is what I want to do in life”, instead I had a lesson which I found extremely fun. Even through secondary school my dream of doing teaching stuck, despite this being ironic due to me […]

Why teaching? Teaching is not my first career; I was a theatre staff nurse and later a registered child minder. I have, however, more than twenty years of experience of caring for children. With six siblings, eighteen nieces and nephews and numerous great nieces and nephews, I have always been surrounded by young children. Now, […]

Whenever the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ arose, all I ever thought was a teacher. This has been the case for as long as I can remember. I have always had a passion for helping, encouraging and supporting people, especially with my peers and younger sibling.  I loved to […]

As a child, I was asked ‘what do you want to be when you are older?’ or ‘what is your dream job?”, each time I would reply ‘a famous tennis player, or a teacher’. I had the answer branded in my mind and I was determined to make sure it would one day be true. […]

I originally had the idea that I wanted to be involved in teaching after my first work experience in my third year of high school. My placement was in a nursery but I was fascinated how over the space of a few weeks children can develop their understanding of different topics as well as widen […]

Why teaching? This is the question I have been asked on numerous occasions throughout the past year. The answer? Honestly, I am unsure of it. This time last year I was preparing to pursue a career in journalism, yet when it came to doing my work experience, something didn’t quite ‘click’. I have never had […]

For me, helping children to achieve their potential is an exceptional thing. This is the critical reason for my choice of primary teaching as a career as I believe that educators fulfil an essential role in young people’s lives. Having benefited from a fulfilling education myself, I am well aware of the impact of an […]

They say those who can’t do teach, but I can’t think of anything else I would rather do. The moment I knew I wanted to pursue a career in Primary teaching was in January of my lower sixth year in secondary school when I went to a local primary school for work experience. I wasn’t […]

My inspiration to become a teacher comes from a common answer many students will give you- My time at primary school. Before I begin you should know, I come from a small primary school, very small. My year had 10 pupils – 4 boys and 6 girls. This meant on a daily basis I built […]

I chose primary teaching as I think the profession has the ability to start a child’s life in the best possible way: If a child enjoys learning from a young age they are more likely to go on and work hard to pursue their dreams. I’m sure I would find this experience very self-rewarding. I […]