I finished my work placement about eight months ago, and over the course of my first semester of my final year at university, I have already begun to see how the skills I acquired proved to be useful. For my Crime and Terror unit, we were required to do an individual presentation. In the past,... Continue Reading →
Case Study
Case Study- An Event During My Placement For three days in December, the 11th-13th, Lizzie, one of the English teachers at Gloucester College, was off from work with an illness and subsequently had no one to cover her lessons for the duration of these days. I was asked to take the lessons up until she... Continue Reading →
Getting My Placement
While applying for my placement, I was looking at a variety of different schools around that I thought would be good for experience. I went through quite a few, emailing them, but got little to no responses from most of them. I continued to look around online at other schools and decided to look on... Continue Reading →
Term One
During my first term at Gloucester College for my 2018-2019 work placement, I feel I have achieved a lot and developed quite a few personal skills. Before I began my placement, I was increasingly worried that I would not be able to do all that I would have wanted to within my placement, for example,... Continue Reading →
Keeping My Placement Journal
During my placement, I have been keeping a day by day placement journal that I take with me to each lesson I sit in to make notes and write in every time I have done something. This has allowed me to keep up to date on what I have been doing, what lessons I have... Continue Reading →
Gloucester College
Overview and Intro to Work Placement Over the course of 2018-2019 academic year I am doing a work placement at Gloucester College, working within the English and Maths department in the Cheltenham campus. This has involved me learning different skills within Further Education for both GCSE and Function Skills classes. The English and Maths department... Continue Reading →