I'll miss my year 7s...
Oct. 19th, 2006 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_vultureThe decision to apply for (and then accept when it was offered to me) the post of English Teacher at the school I'm currently working at was a completely rational and sensible choice. Though I'll wind up with a lot of marking and the like, that stress will buy off the real worries of finding another job for spring, applying for a new work-permit and the like, and possibly having to move (as well as all of the huge expenses that accompany the latter two bits of grief). More importantly, I have also been promised support in obtaining my QTS, a requirement for continued teaching in the UK and perhaps the biggest challenge to be dealt with before obtaining an indefinite leave to remain. Rationally, I'm very pleased and can already feel a LOT of stress leaving my body.
Still, emotionally, I feel ambivalent; I was really enjoying my role in the school and was developing a great rapport with most of my pupils, especially the year 7s. The teacher I will be replacing after the half-term break doesn't teach any year 7s whatsoever. As I was taking down some their work to bring to the Year 7 Parent's Evening I was at tonight, I couldn't help but feel more than a little sad about it. It's going to be even worse tomorrow, when I begin informing my current pupils that I will no longer be teaching them in their support classes and face the disappointment I know most of them will feel. I still don't know what I'm actually going to say to them...
Still, emotionally, I feel ambivalent; I was really enjoying my role in the school and was developing a great rapport with most of my pupils, especially the year 7s. The teacher I will be replacing after the half-term break doesn't teach any year 7s whatsoever. As I was taking down some their work to bring to the Year 7 Parent's Evening I was at tonight, I couldn't help but feel more than a little sad about it. It's going to be even worse tomorrow, when I begin informing my current pupils that I will no longer be teaching them in their support classes and face the disappointment I know most of them will feel. I still don't know what I'm actually going to say to them...
