Compiling this portfolio is like doing the most tedious assignment ever! I know I have to do it, I totally understand why I have to do it and I even want to have a portfolio, but it doesn’t make it any easier to do.
It also doesn’t help that there are no hard and fast rules as to what you put in it or how you lay it out and after many years of following strict criteria when completing tasks this sort of freedom is incredibly daunting. I’ve decided to go for a portrait layout, A4 style with lots of paper accents and photographs and things. It’s not as traditional as some people may make their portfolio but I’m not big on the ‘traditional’ thing anyways, so I figure why start now?
I found the teaching philosophy I had to write as part of an assignment a year or so ago. It’s actually pretty kick ass and I think it will impress people. It’s about the only piece of text I wrote in my entire uni career that I actually believe in, everything I feel about teaching is in it and I can even prove it with examples from my pracs and things so it makes it even more legitamate. Better still My Dream School (MDS) has a philosophy that aligns very well with my teaching philosophy, so hopefully we’ll be a match made in heaven. I was looking at MDS’s website earlier today, it’s mad! They have a indoor rock climbing wall, a proper running track and the coolest looking entrance I’ve ever seen. It looks like a super welcoming place, the videos of the staff make them seem quite warm and genuine and there are parent testimonials to support this. I also had a look at the fee structure…let’s just say you’d want to be earning the phat cash and have only one child if you wanted them to attend. On the plus side though, they will probably pay quite well, seeing as the registration fee for enrolling one child for just one term is more than most other schools are offering teachers per month.
I should stop whining and get it done so I can share it with some of my teacher-folk friends later in the week, allowing me a little time for final tweaking. Tomorrow when I wake up to go to work, it will be the same time I’ll have to be at the airport the following Monday for my flight!! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeppppp!!!!!
