Teaching is like a tree

We've had a lovely day today so far. It was Collaborative learning day and we've been working on projects in small groups. My group's job was to make a representation of 40 years in the teaching profession. After a brain-storming with mind maps, we made a tree collage from magazines (as teaching is an ever-expanding profession, putting out new branches, it's an ever-changing cycle and it produces young off-shoots etc etc) and included words connected to teaching like ‘inspire’ ‘inform’, ‘the future’ as branches and all sorts of curricular links cut out teaching images, collected leaves from the park made speech bubbles. At the roots, we put a little door which opened and inside was a teacher leaping out. There were people (representing teachers) sitting on branches, children leaping out. I even made a mini notepad and pencil for the Art branch!
It looks FAB and we are really pleased! Not bad considering our magazine resources were 3 cooking magazines, a home magazine and Timeout! My group were all very inspired and creative people! Plus, we finished early, so we're all going home now! Hopefully someone's taking a photo, so I'll try to post a picture!

Now got to do my analysis from the day and finish my maths audit at home. I've suddenly found that I am horrendous at maths! The algebra isnt so bad, but I think I will need some help to be able to explain maths concepts when it comes to it!

Tomorrow we get to meet our mentors from our schools we start at next week to do our 9 days of observation. It’s very exciting and I can’t wait to find out where I have been placed!