So far within the Work Experience module, I have contacted my mentor and attended the first seminar. I have known my mentor for several years now, as he was previously my high school physical education teacher. This has made me even more excited to start my placement as I will be back in an environment I am familiar with, but looking at it from a different perspective. Due to already having the email of my mentor, I found it quite easy to contact him and with him knowing who I am he replied fairly quickly. The discussion about when I would carry out my work experience was simple and didn’t cause any problems as the week he suggested for me to go was perfect for me. I am very relieved that obtaining this placement was so easy, as working in a school as a physical education teacher is my future career goal.
An aspect that I did struggle with to complete was all of the pre-placement documents. There was a considerable number of them to fill out, and I was slightly anxious in case I filled them out wrong. Before I sent the ‘Sourcing your own Placement’ documents to my mentor, I had a read through them and filled out what I could. I was unsure about what parts of the forms I was to fill out and what my mentor was to complete. After I had sent them to my mentor and had them filled out by him, I felt a lot more at ease about the whole process. This was due to the fact that I then had my placement fully secured and organised.
When I attended the seminar in week 2 of this semester, I felt as though it became a lot clearer on what I have to do throughout this module. I learned about what was required to do to enable me to excel in the module and about how it will benefit me. Finding out about how I can use this experience to make myself more desirable for employers, while also benefitting the employers and university, was very interesting.
Hi Iona,I am sorry to hear that you were anxious to fill out the form. You did very well. Hope you enjoy your placement more! -Romie
Hi Iona, I am happy to hear that you’re excited about your placement. It sounds like a good opportunity considering that you would like to work in that field in future-Sara