Why do I go to uni? Is it just a means to an end? The route that must be taken in order to reach the destination I have chosen? Or is it more than that?
Quite often people will say never mind only two more years to go or half way through and sometimes it does feel exactly like that. The BEd can be like a pregnancy that people have known about from the beginning. You will meet someone you haven't seen for a while and they exclaim "have you still not had that baby!". When you are on the BEd course you meet people and they exclaim "are you still at uni!" I have a friend who decided to become a teacher, has completed the PGDE and is now a probationer teacher all in the time I completed one quarter of my course. Am I jealous? Not in the slightest (well maybe sometimes) because I believe that the BEd is the best route for me. As for why I go to uni, of course I go because I want to be a teacher but I also go because I want to learn.
I like to think, investigate, explore, discuss, research and everything else that comes with a programme of study. I don't want to simply form ideas and hold them as concrete beliefs for the rest of my life. I want to take the ideas and beliefs of others and throw them on the scales, not to get a better balance but to tip the scales in favour of the learners that I will help to develop.
So yes there are times when I complain about the course and moan about things that in the grand scale of things are quite insignificant but the journey is worth it. I am not a teacher in training, I am a learner in training and I think learners make the best teachers.
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