Placement two is looming - our day visit is next Friday, which should be something to look forward to. However, zero placements have been offered to students of English in the East Coast, which means I have been offered a placement school 50 miles away (a 2 hour journey involving a bus, two trains, and a walk). AAAArgh! How is THAT going to work? As a parent of two school aged kids that's a BIG ask from my partner, who has already shouldered a lot of extra domestic duties during the course of my 'travels in teacher territory'.
Not sure what I've learned from this. Is this a sign that schools feel overwhelmed, too busy to help a student teacher just before the prelims start? Perhaps the East Coast teacher training college has snaffled all the willing schools up, and have better timing (their students started placement 2 in January). It's a worry that institutions dedicated to learning are not willing to support the learning of their colleagues.
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