Today, instead of having a morning and afternoon class, we had Local Learning Project Day. This morning 25 odd grade six students from Hazelwood Primary came in for the day. We taught them about some stuff that goes on here at Snowy and also some topics to do with the local community. The day seemed to go fairly smoothly with a few minor hiccups that were easily rectified. As far as my presentation went I think I did fairly well. I projected my voice in a clear manner and didn’t speak in a monotone. The one thing that let my group and I down was a massive lack of preparation. We had much better things planned than what we ended up showing, but didn’t use the provided class time wisely at all. We still presented the content we had prepared well, and filled the time limit, but we weren’t as happy with how we went as the final result showed. We have now leant that preparation/organisation is key in pulling these things off and will be able to put that into practise when the next opportunity arises.

Today gave me an insight into how learning is from the other perspective, the teacher’s role. It helped me to understand how different people learn in different ways and how a teachers’ role isn’t as simple as it might seem.

This was one of many great experiences I have had here at Snowy. I am excited for what is to come.

Max - Diamond Valley College