Week one: learn for life

picture: Bridge House College- Learning Commons hall way

The first part of my week was a crazy mad house in a whirl wind. Seems difficult to imagine but school started as usual and I found my self lost between time tables. 

By Wednesday I had found my rhythm and really started to enjoy my classes, but to be honest I wasn't sure when people use the bathroom with everything going else going on.

The school I am at, Bridge House College, doesn't run like government schools so most things we learned in the first semester seemed to be irrelevant. The school runs on explorative learning with the motto:"we learn for life". That was exactly what I saw. Phones were out during class at appropriate times with all technology at their disposal. I love the environment, there is no set hierarchy and learners are allowed to be treat as equals across the grades and us as student teachers are teacher in their eyes.

I found my first week to be refreshing but daunting. I became a teaching assistant in the grade 9 music class and by the end of the week I was a source of help for learners. I realised I needed a red pen but I used purple case that's all I had.  Next week I start teaching lessons, 7 lesson and two piano students might I add, and I know my teaching style will be different. I hope that the learners will be receptive of my style. There is a sense of freedom in the air and I hope it stays. 

The adventure has begun and I feel ready. The most important thing I learned this week is life happens and you have to let it and adapt.