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I also hope to include in my classroom many presentations whether they are individual or group work. I realize that
learners often dread such things but I think there is so much they can learn and take away from these experiences. I

have noticed two things when I was doing my WIL. The confidence you walk away with if you have done well and the
disappointment learners feel when you were not at all prepared for their day. Whether good or bad, they grow from

both of these experiences and it teaches them so much about the person that they want to be.
My responsibilities as a teacher go far beyond teaching Physical Science but I also have to shape young people into

responsible adults in our society. I will teach them to be responsible for themselves as well as their work. We will lay

down rules as a class and I will be consistent with consequences to those that were not followed. I don’t hope to have
to become a strict teacher because I hope I will not need to. However, I will be consistent and teach them how life

works.

Learners don’t always enjoy science and very often think it to be too challenging. I want to change this for as many

students as I can come across throughout my career. Science can be a difficult subject but when a student can
overcome a hurdle that seemed unattainable it gives them all the confidence in the world. To think back on how I had

felt in that classroom so many years ago and to know that I am about to graduate with a B.Ed. in Senior and FET
leaves me feeling full of self-confidence and determined that I really can do anything. My goal as a teacher is to achieve

that feeling in all my learners at a young age so they can prosper with self- confidence their whole lives.