Worst job ever meme
Oh dear, I thought I might get out of doing these as I am not a well known blogger, but since developing a PLN over the last year, I have now been dobbed in for two of these memes. First one came from Marg Murnane titled “Worst job ever”.
Looking back on your life, what was the “worst job” you ever had that ironically helped prepare you to one day become an educator?
In my whole 52 years, I have only had two paying jobs, as a teacher since leaving university and for a few weeks between college and university, I worked as a computer operator at the Zinc Works factory near Hobart. I found this to be a fairly monotonous job, making cups of tea and coffee and adding data to a computer using the old punch card system.
Looking back, this monotony and repetition made me realise that my classroom needs to be welcoming and have variation in the way I teach and the students learn.
If ever I get to the stage of using the same lessons year in, year out and teaching using the same methods, then I am not learning myself – my school life and that of my students will then be monotonous and repetitious.
For this I will tag: Sue Waters and Paul Bogush
That’s just plain mean
since I’ve been tagged for several memes in the past few weeks. mmmmmm wondering on suitable punishment? What can I say — when you not expecting it LOL.
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Thanks Sue. I have also gone from never being tagged for anything to being tagged twice this week. I was actually tagged for this meme about two months ago by Anne M and ignored it because the answer is very complicated…and I think will surprise people. I am going to work on it and put it up later this week.
And if you can visit this site http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-education-blog/ and vote for me starting on Monday(your Tuesday?) I would appreciate it!!
Thanks,
Paul
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