Warning future teachers: physical fitness is a must
In sixth year, the most grueling year of one's life in terms of study, decision-making, or in relation to the first, lack of decision-making, the CAO people forgot to tell us aspiring teachers one very important thing. In order to survive as an educator, you need to have the strength of an inter-county football team to simply get by each day. FACT. For the last week I have been on teaching practice, and I don't know what it is but mother of sweet divine the legs, feet and back do be quite shagged after 6 hours of it. Maybe it's the constant hurdling over bags, art supplies and children themselves. Maybe it's the endless trips to the photocopying machine, and the painful standing session that endures upon arrival. Or maybe it's the out-dated student teacher dress code that prevents us from wearing shoes that actually give us some much-needed arch support for the task of dealing with snotty noses, the flinging of random objects or continuous streams of chatter about ...