Name: Rylan P (First Name and Last Initial) Advisory #:1
You will be observing your host throughout the day. There are 3 parts to this assignment:
Part 1- The Interview: Observe your host at work, at some point interview your host and record/make notes of the results
Part 2 – Reflection: After the day is finished, reflect upon your experience and answer the reflection questions Part 3 – Post Your Assignment to Your Blog: Once your have completed Part 1 and Part 2 post it on your blog. Make sure you take pictures and/or videos to document your day, you can place them in your blog.
Name of your host: Ken Porter Relationship to you: Dad
The Interview: (ask your host these questions)
What is your job title? Teacher/department head
1. What is your job description? Grade 5 teacher and technology support head
What are the duties and/or tasks you perform at your job? Teach kids the entire curriculum.
What qualifications do you have for this job in the following areas:
1. a) training? 1 year teacher education program.
2. b) education? Bachelor of education, post baccalaureate diploma
3. c) experience? Teaching for 24 years
4. d) skills and attributes (personal qualities)? Creative, flexible thinker, able to multitask, caring, patient, sense of humor.
5. What are some of the things you like about the job? It’s a chance to be creative, enjoy seeing kids learn, enjoys the people he works with, he also likes the challenge, pays reasonably well and can have time off with his family
6. What are some of the things you dislike about this job?
Paperwork and un reasonable parent requirements.
5. How do you anticipate this job changing in the next 5 years or so? Parents will better understand the new curriculum and new ways of marking kids

Other question (s):
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Student Reflections:
1. Give three reasons why you would like this job (be specific):

a) you get to meet new people every year. From new students, new staff, and new parents! This would be nice because your workplace is always changing. It is also nice that you could move schools if you wanted to!

b) The job is always changing with lots of new problems. There would be many problems some good and some not so good. For example, if there was a problem with a computer that you had to fix. This would be a good problem. However, if you got stuck with some not so bright kids in your class that might be a bad problem.

c) You get to see people learn and grow. This would be nice to see because you know your doing something right! This would be especially nice if the student who was succeeding started of not so good and grew a lot.

2. Give three reasons why you would not like this job (be specific):

A) Marking. It sounds like a treacherous job of marking kids assignments, projects and overall work. From my understanding one would need to spend hours on end marking and writing down the marks. This task sounds annoying not only for the obvious reasons but also when you give a students work back they might not be happy with the mark. Even though you spent hours of your life marking the student would be ungrateful of there mark.

B) Lots of unhappy people like students and parents. I have heard many horror stories about parents being angry with the teacher about the way their child is being taught. And no not all these horror stories are from my dads class.😊 I think this would be hard because you being the teacher are put in a hard spot because 1 you are trying your best to help everyone it the class and 2 you want to make everything better but sometimes cant.

C) Writing report cards. I personally I have experienced what my dad goes through 3 times a year every year. Long hours and weekends explain what the students is doing good at and what they need to improve. Lots of hard work on top of my current job just doesn’t appeal to me that much.

3. Is this job for you? Why or why not?

To be honest I don’t know. I feel like I’ve just scraped the tip of the iceberg when it comes to being a teacher. My passion isn’t really teaching but then again, I don’t know where life will take me. Lots of the people I talked to at my dad’s school didn’t originally want to be a teacher but love where they ended up! So, who knows maybe one day I’ll be back at this school only as a teacher.
4. Explain the value of the TYKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post secondary (after high school) plans (education? training? travel? work?).

I really enjoyed being a teacher for a day and seeing what my das work life is like! I got to experience so many awesome and unique things that I usually wouldn’t get to. I also got to put a name to face with a lot of my dad’s coworkers.
I think TYKTW is a great experience for kids my age because you get to experience what life after high school is really like. I think that some kids think that after you finish school its all easy and you don’t really have to do anything. I think TYKTW is a great experience all kids should have. Learned lots during the day and I also made lots of great memorise.