Student centered learning still needs an enthusiastic teacher, esp at the start of the school year.

Teaching is exciting. Never before has education, especially in New Zealand been so expensive, so demanding, so ...awkward and so exciting!

Modern learning environments- Yeah right the buildings are old. The carpet is worn through, there is only one door into most rooms and the shape of the room is still a square. BUT i love it. There is something in the air and in the water- change. Change comes rapidly in some corners of the room and slowly in other areas. It is now about modern lifelong learning pedagogy. 

I like the fact that some things are totally predictable and i like it that my teaching job is constantly embracing an element of change.
After all i am a life long learner. I must adapt a bit, tidy a bit---throw stuff out, rearrange stuff!
For goodness sake i never got a degree and licence to teach teenagers and then simply rot on the spot!
Tomorrow is a mammoth change for me. I will be presenting at a conference that i used to think was only for the very best! #ULearn2015. Somehow my abstract was accepted and having a peak at the delegates enrolled in my 25 minute taster session is a little nerve-wrecking BUT i have a support person- the fabulous Karen Symons. Collaboration started in the form of an encouraging conversation~ After all it is her who colors the students' world at the start of the school year with a carnival welcoming school entrance.

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