Thought I'd give an up date on my progress on delivering employability from my post, Exploring and learning employability. I've come to start demonstrating and finishing off my evidence for DTLLS on the Delivering Employability Skills unit. I didn't quite get creative with this unit as I mentioned I would. I think time got the better of me on this. But, creativity is best done with the teaching of it!
Just after Christmas I arranged to sit in some employability lessons with the Skills for Jobs department, who deliver programmes for the unemployed. They have been very interesting from the people who are enrolled to the programmes to the content that is being delivered. It's widened my understanding of the need for employability skills for adults as well as young adults. I've had to refresh my knowledge on employability skills. Topics I am invovled in are CV building, interview techniques, responsible work practice and recognising and respecting diversity in the workplace.
For this unit, I just need to capture evidence of me demonstrating this subject, meaning teaching it. So I have been building myself up by shadowing other teachers if you like, then I will do my effort with it. I still love this subject as employability is and encapsulates education. I hope to do more on this in the future!
Thursday, 6 March 2014
To Masters degree or not to Masters degree. Masters degree!
Well, I have decided to do a Masters degree!
Funny how I recall attending a mediumship night sometime in early 2013 I think, and when it came to my turn for a reading. A part of it was said that after I had completed my Open University course. I had the capability to have gone on to doing more - I think it might have been said that this came from my grandad. Eventually I did with achieving an MSc, and to what I achieved since this at present day.
I started looking and exploring at some Masters in Summer 2013. Not influenced by the above. But the time didn't seem right, until now. There are lots of educational and learning technology Masters out there, so it was hard to decide which one was best for me. I've decided to do the Technology Enhanced Learning MSc with the University of Huddersfield. This one sits well with me as it's project based and the content is what I am looking for. I've officially registered for the course after being accepted to do it. I've been feeling nervously happy! I want to start it in September 2014. I want to try and complete it in 2 years part-time and hopefully successfully achieve it on the year I turn 30. So 2016 could be a massive year for me!
I won't stop doing any qualifications after this, but this would be like the icing on the cake for me, of my educational journey. This will be my biggest educational challenge yet. I believe in myself that I can do it. It will be a lot of hard work and determination, which I have always had. That's why I am here now. I just need to go a lot deeper this time around. Which I cannot wait for! This is what I feel I need right now. To be educationally challenged even further to understand and learn new skills at this level.
I am happy not to do a Masters, but as always I push myself further. I'm not doing it to gain a new job. But doing it personally for myself to know that I can study at this level and know that I have educated myself independently, as I have throughout my entire life. Doing this Masters is what I stand for. Education. And better still, in a subject that I work in and know a lot about and that can push the boundaries of education and develop it further. It will help me discover the truth about learning technologies! Something I have wanted to find out for a very long time!
I just need to find a grant/funding for it now. So I need to get cracking with that now.
I started looking and exploring at some Masters in Summer 2013. Not influenced by the above. But the time didn't seem right, until now. There are lots of educational and learning technology Masters out there, so it was hard to decide which one was best for me. I've decided to do the Technology Enhanced Learning MSc with the University of Huddersfield. This one sits well with me as it's project based and the content is what I am looking for. I've officially registered for the course after being accepted to do it. I've been feeling nervously happy! I want to start it in September 2014. I want to try and complete it in 2 years part-time and hopefully successfully achieve it on the year I turn 30. So 2016 could be a massive year for me!
I won't stop doing any qualifications after this, but this would be like the icing on the cake for me, of my educational journey. This will be my biggest educational challenge yet. I believe in myself that I can do it. It will be a lot of hard work and determination, which I have always had. That's why I am here now. I just need to go a lot deeper this time around. Which I cannot wait for! This is what I feel I need right now. To be educationally challenged even further to understand and learn new skills at this level.
I am happy not to do a Masters, but as always I push myself further. I'm not doing it to gain a new job. But doing it personally for myself to know that I can study at this level and know that I have educated myself independently, as I have throughout my entire life. Doing this Masters is what I stand for. Education. And better still, in a subject that I work in and know a lot about and that can push the boundaries of education and develop it further. It will help me discover the truth about learning technologies! Something I have wanted to find out for a very long time!
I just need to find a grant/funding for it now. So I need to get cracking with that now.
Sunday, 16 February 2014
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