Aaron McDaid

I mentioned previously that I am doing a one-year teaching training course. I'm loving it now. I've enjoyed it all so far, but I'm particularly happy just in the last couple of weeks as I'm settling into my second teaching practice quite well. My mentor is really fantastic, a really nice person who knows how to train a teacher. As a result of a few of the lessons this week and a couple of interesting discussions with Denise, my mentor, I think I've learnt more about teaching than I learnt in the entire course since September!

On Aug 29th August 2008 I decided to become a teacher. Now, less than two weeks later, I'm settled into a PGCE course at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol, England. It's a pretty big and sudden decision but I feel like it's the right thing and everything so far has gone well. Like of lot of office drones, I had been considering teaching quite often over the years.