Uni report-career aspriations

Hayley-K · 22 Mar 2007 at 14:18

Im currently studying for a geography degree but have this stupid compulsory module called PAD (Personal Academic Development) which I have to do.

At the moment im trying to write a report on my future career aspriations, but I've got a bit stuck.

Basically i want to be a primary school teacher but im stuck on my self analysis, I thought this was going to be easy but I was mistaken. I'd much rather be writing and essay about geography right now :rolleyes:

Your self-analysis should consider all skills, attributes, qualifications, experience and training required the career chosen and assess the extent to which you fulfil the criteria. This should be substantiated by examples to support your assertions.

I already teach kids to swim so have quite a bit of experience working with that age group but I can't seem to find much online about skills and attributes a primary scool teacher needs.

Any ideas or help would be much appreciated?

Welshy · 22 Mar 2007 at 14:46

lol, I did a module just like that last semester, "Personal Enterprise Development", and what a pile of poo it was too.

I always considered career aspirations to be how high up you'd like to go, if you see yourself trying out managerial roles etc?

Hayley-K · 22 Mar 2007 at 14:54

Welshy said:
lol, I did a module just like that last semester, "Personal Enterprise Development", and what a pile of poo it was too.

I always considered career aspirations to be how high up you'd like to go, if you see yourself trying out managerial roles etc?

I came to study geography not what jobs i want to do, I still have a 15 min presentation to do in a few months how fun!!

I've had a break lets see if I can try finish it now

Kol · 22 Mar 2007 at 14:56

Hayley-K said:
I came to study geography not what jobs i want to do, I still have a 15 min presentation to do in a few months how fun!!

I've had a break lets see if I can try finish it now

Yes, it annoys us all having to do extra modules, but it prepares us and develops other skills which we need, which of course stretch far beyond Geography

Welshy · 22 Mar 2007 at 15:03

Hayley-K said:
I came to study geography not what jobs i want to do, I still have a 15 min presentation to do in a few months how fun!!

I've had a break lets see if I can try finish it now

Looking into your future, CV development etc are skills that you'll need though, you cant get through life just knowing about volcanoes

Hayley-K · 22 Mar 2007 at 15:23

Welshy said:
Looking into your future, CV development etc are skills that you'll need though, you cant get through life just knowing about volcanoes

I'm mainly a huimman geographer so im not really that up on volcanoes, more artwork and culture (had to go to the tate on a field trip yesterday!!) I did actuall find the CV workshop pretty helpful made my old CV look pretty poo

Mikol said:
it prepares us and develops other skills which we need

True, looking at teaching you do need work experience and if i wasn't doing this module I would be sat at home probably oblivious to the fact that i ought to go on a work placement!

spirit · 22 Mar 2007 at 16:42

id rather write that then write about french protectionism (in french) for my econ degree.

Mad old tory · 22 Mar 2007 at 18:12

spirit said:
id rather write that then write about french protectionism (in french) for my econ degree.

Ditto or the 2500 econometrics project I'm doing. Does anyone else doing Economics have to do an econmetrics dissertation or can you do an extended essay instead?