It is September 3 and we find an extremely nervous teacher, sat in a classroom, one hour before any pupils are due, PowerPoints set-up and ready to take on the world – or so was thought (if you haven’t guessed, I’m a drama teacher).
It was in this agonisingly long hour that I really started to evaluate my journey so far.
Up until now I have always been a student and from this day on I was the antithesis of a student. I am a teacher and yet I didn’t feel like I knew half as much as I should...
Luckily, being a teacher, I have since discovered, that teaching isn’t that different from being a student. In fact, I’ve learned more in my first term than I did while training.
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