Throwing Chalk: diary of a trainee teacher

Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn.
Greek Proverb

FE could mean feckin eejit. Yes, it could and most probably does.

FE could stand for feckless & edgy, or better still, fearless and erudite. That would be nice. Or just plain ole 'Further Education'.

Yes, that would be the one. The small scale adventures of a trainee teacher in the world of further education (post 16+). Except, I currently have one major problem. I have completed the first year of my 2 years part-time course, but the college where I did my first year's placement?
Yeah, they don't want me back.

They don't want me back.

So that's nice, huh?

Did I set fire to the college? No comment.
Did I lie, cheat and steal? Well, let's put it this way - I never got caught.

In fact the boring explanation is "and it's no reflection on you, Chad" that having a semi-trained chimpanzee of a student teacher hanging around was just a bit too much work. Despite the fact that I could take classes and give them a rest. But blah blah, I'm not bitter. And my name isn't Chad, but it'll do as an anonymous nondeplume. If I'm going to detail the coming year's experiences, there will be a need to fictionalise myself, my location, the college that eventually decides to take me on.

So my name is Chad Logan. Ha, how cool is that? I wish I was called Chad Logan, though it sounds worryingly like the lead singer of a terrible rock band.

I live in Fulchester. There are lots of background biographical details that I could put here but they would only serve to bore and reveal more about me.

I need to go and write a 100 emails to all the local colleges (although not the one that has rejected me, turfed me out and left me hopeless and howling in the street with pain and self-pity. No, I'm not bitter.). I'll do that..... soon. Then get back to this.

"It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state."
William Ellery Channing

What a pompous, self-serving quote that is. Still, if it gets you through the day...

Posted by Stipey Sullivan at 10:35 Comments