Yes, hooray, the kids are back at school! Now I can furtively sneak a shot on their PS2 and no-one need be any the wiser. Unfortunately for me, I only have a week in which I'll be able to do so, for as of next Monday, it's back to school for me too. Well, not school, Uni, but within several weeks I will indeed be at school. Yes, that's right, they don't hang about with this teacher training malarkey. Five or six weeks training and then I'll be unleashed on some secondary school somewhere.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what this course is going to consist of; lectures... check! essays... check! classroom time... check! How exactly I'm supposed to learn how to become a teacher I'm not sure. Then of course there's the small issue of what the hell am I going to be teaching? Computing obviously, but it's quite a big subject area when you look at it as a whole. Then there's pitching lessons at the right level for the right classes.
I have also been informed that a considerable portion of a teacher's time is spent planning lessons. A lesson plan must be created covering duration, equipment, type of learning exercise... and innumerabe other factors which must also be considered. Yep, teaching looks quite easy from a spectators point of view, but I'm certain that it will be pretty hard work, at least to begin with.
