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Who's done a PGCE?
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Would quite like to chat with someone who has done a PGCE course. Im 2 months in, finish in June and HATING it.
Not just the workload and pressure of it all as its a very intense course but im not even enjoying the actual teaching practice bit either. I feel like my general mood, personality and to a certain extent health has gone down hill as I just have no time to myself and have the constant stress of it all in the back of my mind :crying:
Has anyone else done one, or have experience of the course?
Not just the workload and pressure of it all as its a very intense course but im not even enjoying the actual teaching practice bit either. I feel like my general mood, personality and to a certain extent health has gone down hill as I just have no time to myself and have the constant stress of it all in the back of my mind :crying:
Has anyone else done one, or have experience of the course?
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However, if you are hating the teaching practice then I would query why you are still doing it. Why did you apply on the first place? Is the school supportive? What about the uni?
PM if you wanna chat x
Also, be aware that schools are all very different. Just because you're not enjoying the practical work in the current school, it doesn't mean you won't be happier teaching elsewhere.
As Scary Monster said, you could be at a a low point. Maybe it would pay you to try to stick it out for a few more weeks and then re-evaluate after a well-deserved break? If you still feel like it isn't for you after that then it probably isn't.
Let us know how things progress...
But honestly, if you aren't sure about doing it, then don't put yourself through the stress. My mum goes to work at 7.30 in the morning, doesn't get home till 5.30, some nights it's as late as 8.30 due to meetings! She has to spend at least one day of the weekend doing planning etc, and most of her days in the holidays are spent either in school sorting things out or at the table on her laptop doing work. And the days where she finally has finished all her planing/marking, she is too exhausted to do anything else!
Obviously she has reasons to carry on teaching, she does enjoy it, but if you aren't totally sure about it then I really don't think it's worth all the stress.
the staff are very supportive, especially the teachers I work with who try their hardest to help me out. Also like spanner said, so many schools/colleges are different, and to be honest I don't enjoy my teaching practice partly because its not really my specialism - my specialism is film and they've stuck in media, NOT the same thing!!
I'm verging more towards the path of 'teaching is really not for me' but I feel like I should stay on the course anyway as I may go back to it one day. Is that a silly thing to do?
Ive spoken to a few people from my class and they all said the same thing, that they're not even sure if they wanna be teachers anymore. Sounds terrible but im glad im not alone in it
Do you have a tutor? They'd usually be your first port of call with this kind of thing.
Like I said though, remember it's the end of term - it's never great.
Right now im just counting down the days, weeks, and modules til i finish in june, and will then have a re-think about what kind of job path to go down. Im aware that places like the BFI (british film institute) run courses and workshops so that might be something to get involved in thats not being an 'official teacher' if that makes sense. I might also do some film festival volunteering to get my head back in the zone i wanna be in.
Just trying so hard to cope without running myself down and being in tears every day
I've just successfully completed mine in post compulsory education and I'm pleased to be coming out with a Merit or similar. It's not something I would wish to do again but I do think it helped to do it 'part-time' in terms of the intensity of deadlines and teaching practice. The flip side of that was that it went on for longer than it needed to, and you can always tell when an academic programme has too much administration attached to it when that alone forms one of the units to be completed!
I did mine because I hoped there was a strong possibility it would open doors for me, and fortunately it did, but I wouldn't want to go through the tedium of it all again. At any rate the future of the PGCE appears to be in the balance with the Gove changes and the cost issue.