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Personal Statement For A Humanities And Social Science Career

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am seeking a Humanities and Social Sciences position for 2018 in a school which has a focus on collaboration so that I can share and learn from other teachers to keep developing as a teacher.

At present I am teaching Year 11 General Careers and Enterprise, Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 Humanities and Social sciences at Dalyellup College. I have previously held teaching positions at Jurien Bay District High School and the Schools of Isolated and Distance Education (SIDE) teaching a range of classes including lower school Humanities, English, Health, as well as, ATAR Modern History. These teaching roles have provided me with opportunities to work with students across a range of year levels and contexts, as well as experience in both planning …show more content…

Which is why I decided to run the National History Challenge with the SIDE Year 9. I decided not to make the challenge compulsory instead I focused on developing interest in the extra-curriculum activity amongst the Year 9 cohort. Around half of the Year 9s I taught at SIDE were 'referral' students; referral students come from a wide range of backgrounds and have a variety of physical, social and cognitive disabilities. I really enjoyed the challenges of working with most of these students, however, when a few of my referral students volunteered for the National History Challenge I was nervous, as these were not students whom I would have selected for additional extra-curriculum work. Most of these students had high levels of anxiety and stress, which is why they were in the referral program, consequently I had some concerns about the pressure the challenge might have placed on them. I worked hard with these students, offering small group SABA classes to allow them to collaborate, sharing their ideas and providing each other with constructive feedback. I also scheduled fortnightly individual check in meetings where we discussed their progress and developed individual work completion plans. Their interest and enthusiasm for their selected topics really reinforced how important it is to set high expectations for all students regardless of circumstances.

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