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Sweet_Geek said:
I'm glad mikkayla is choosing to do something else in her life. I'm glad she isn't wanting to do teaching if that isn't something she enjoys. Tbh, I'd prefer a teacher who loves her job and does have a passion for it to teach my children. As a parent, I believe a good teacher makes a huge difference for any child. For me a good teacher is one that wants to be a teacher. Mikkayla does not want to be one so for that I'm glad she found another career choice.

Every day people realise they wasted their time on a degree they don't need or no longer want. I finished a business degree and worked to further my business skills for a while. I hate it! After having children I realised I wanted to become a primary school teacher. I know it's what I should have studied but for a while I lost myself to the thought of making money and so on. But I'm studying it now and am thrilled to have come to this choice. My business degree is still being used for the time being though, so at least it's not a complete waste.
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There is nothing more damaging to a student or to the teaching profession than someone who doesn't want to teach but does it anyway.
 
prufrock said:
I'm sorry, but that is incorrect. You only need two 'methods' and these days some universities offer a double English method. That said, I suspect Mikkayla could well have done Drama as her second method ;)
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You know I just realised what I wrote and was coming back to correct myself when I realised you already had lol. What I meant was that assuming Mikkayla studied at Newcastle Uni (she said she was from there originally right?), she would have needed to have done a range of English, History, Geography, Drama courses in the first couple of years of her undergrad degree and then majored in two of them later on. I know some people that have done the exact same course. It's a 4 year degree (no 5th in a school) but during all 4 years there's blocks of practicals in different schools. It may have changed now, but that's certainly the way Mikkayla would have done it.
 
prufrock said:
There is nothing more damaging to a student or to the teaching profession than someone who doesn't want to teach but does it anyway.
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Most people that I have encountered here that are teachers say that they knew without a doubt that was what they wanted to do. It seems logical if you are going to spend 4 or 5 years qualifying to do it you would give it more than 1 maybe 2 years to know if it was for you.

That said, I found this article that seems to confirm that fact that she was a high school English teacher (although I believe in some cases BB plants articles to back up what they say about contestants professions) This article seems legitimate and also says Mikkayla and Heidi knew each other before the show to some degree.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1673155/gallery-hunter-reality-tv-stars/
 
Gemini said:
You know I just realised what I wrote and was coming back to correct myself when I realised you already had lol. What I meant was that assuming Mikkayla studied at Newcastle Uni (she said she was from there originally right?), she would have needed to have done a range of English, History, Geography, Drama courses in the first couple of years of her undergrad degree and then majored in two of them later on. I know some people that have done the exact same course. It's a 4 year degree (no 5th in a school) but during all 4 years there's blocks of practicals in different schools. It may have changed now, but that's certainly the way Mikkayla would have done it.
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Newcastle Uni actually has a good English Education degree. The Institute of Teachers now demands that in the first year of teaching first year outs undertake a series of tasks before they are registered. It's sort of a traineeship. It's painful, but it also helps sort the wheat from the chaff :)
 
TullyLovesDrew said:
Most people that I have encountered here that are teachers say that they knew without a doubt that was what they wanted to do. It seems logical if you are going to spend 4 or 5 years qualifying to do it you would give it more than 1 maybe 2 years to know if it was for you.

That said, I found this article that seems to confirm that fact that she was a high school English teacher (although I believe in some cases BB plants articles to back up what they say about contestants professions) This article seems legitimate and also says Mikkayla and Heidi knew each other before the show to some degree.

http://www.theherald.com.au/story/1673155/gallery-hunter-reality-tv-stars/
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The expectation is these days that you will change jobs seven times in your working life. Whilst I'm not sure that's a completely reliable piece of information, it's common for twenty somethings these days to take risks and try new careers. Nothing wrong with that and Mikkayla will always have the benefit of a university education behind her.
 
prufrock said:
Newcastle Uni actually has a good English Education degree. The Institute of Teachers now demands that in the first year of teaching first year outs undertake a series of tasks before they are registered. It's sort of a traineeship. It's painful, but it also helps sort the wheat from the chaff :)
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I get what you mean by the additional 5th year now. My view of "qualified" was how many years the degree was before they could graduate and and start applying to take up positions.
 
prufrock said:
I think the most important thing to note is that Mikkayla made herself unemployable as a secondary teacher for the next five years or so. As to what you're saying about teacher training, you are making generalisations. did you know that the mark to get into PDHPE is higher than for any maths or science education degrees? And given the complexity of the HSC PDHPE course for the HSC, if you score in the top band in the course you are awarded the same number of points towards your ATAR as the top band in Physics. As for training English teachers, some unis are incredibly demanding (as they should be) and others are not. But because as you rightly point out, there is a dearth of science and maths teachers, it's those courses that often take students with lower grades. And don't even start me on the marks for primary teaching.
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I'll take back what I said about Phys Ed if that's the case. In any event it makes no sense for students who have the better marks to be enrolling in English and History majors for the reasons mentioned previously whilst students with lower high lower scores are accepted to make up the numbers in the areas where teachers are actually needed. lol

Obviously part of it is that unis are self-serving and don't care whether students find employment after graduating, all they care about is keeping the HECS money rolling in. Even so they should try harder to convince those who get in with scores above the clearly-in ATAR to take on the Science and Maths majors from the outset and strongly advice them why it is in their best interest to do so.
 
Connoisseur said:
I'll take back what I said about Phys Ed if that's the case. In any event it makes no sense for students who have the better marks to be enrolling in English and History majors for the reasons mentioned previously whilst students with lower high lower scores are accepted to make up the numbers in the areas where teachers are actually needed. lol

Obviously part of it is that unis are self-serving and don't care whether students find employment after graduating, all they care about is keeping the HECS money rolling in. Even so they should try harder to convince those who get in with scores above the clearly-in ATAR to take on the Science and Maths majors from the outset and strongly advice them why it is in their best interest to do so.
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Yep. The days of PE teachers as meatheads are long since gone.
 
I just saw what the sugar sisters have been up to with cooking and with clothing/accessories.

Who would have picked them as among the most ambitious and focused housemates? Good for them. Compared to Tully and Jasmine, those girls are real go getters.

Even if not successful, they have created something out of their big brother experience.
 
I studied teaching but I am yet to use the degree and to be honest I probably never will because the passion isn't there and I don't feel children's futures. should be in my hand if I feel that way. I have no dramas with Mikk quitting if she feels similar, no one has to stay in situations that don't bring them joy, plus in education her feelings would effect more than just her.
 
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