Teaching Rounds

Today I went to Hillcreast Secondary College in Broadie, to meet with my supervising teacher that i will spend three weeks following and picking the brain of. I dont start my teaching round till 27th of March, but as I am really excited about teaching and learning to teach, I decided I would go today (last day of term, and I start there on the first day of term 2).
Well I got there at 12.00pm and didnt leave till 4.30pm. It was great. My supervisor is great, she basically said I can do whatever I want. If I wanna teach her classes first thing on that Monday, I can otherwise I can just watch. She is super cool, and pretty close to the type of teacher I want to be.
Now I've had a few people try to 'scare' me and tell me how bad its going to be out there in Broadie, or 'the ghetto' as people have referred to it, but I just don't buy it. Yes there was a school yard fight about half an hour into my meet and greet, and kids with tattoos, spikey moe-hawk (the 80's super tall kind), language that I dont use being thrown around, and well just plain old rough kids, but they are really great when you talk to them. They grow up rough, and pretty hard, but most seem to understand that in the classroom they have to be a bit nicer. I think I'm going to love it. I get to teach a year 12 Business management class, and year 11 Legal and S.O.S.E yr 8 and 10. I'm told the year 8's are the louder year!

As I' m not naming names on this site, well real names anyway, Joanne*, my supervisor is great, after the kids leave on a Friday, the teachers do drinks in the staff room, and I mean real drinks, beer, champagne, even UDL's, its great and they invited me this week, so i joined in (didnt drink though) and bonded alittle.

The interesting thing was that 5 teachers were dip ed students that did their rounds there, 5 or less years ago! Job opportunity possibility.