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Post by Steve Hopwood on Sept 12, 2006 21:15:34 GMT
Oh man, that looks heaven! I so want to do that! Emailed the RNCM, to see what the entry requirements are. It better not be a 1st degree, with 50 DipABRSMs etc! Once you have the basic quali for a PGCE, what the provider looks for next is evidence that you really want to be a teacher. I reckon you are doing enought to provide that evidence. ;D
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Post by princessmoose on Sept 12, 2006 21:16:28 GMT
Should my personal statement be this then: I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally want to be a teacher, very much, so preeeeetty pleeeeease accept me . ?
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Sept 12, 2006 21:18:37 GMT
Should my personal statement be this then: I reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally want to be a teacher, very much, so preeeeetty pleeeeease accept me . ? Not quite like that.
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Post by princessmoose on Sept 12, 2006 21:19:17 GMT
How then?!
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Sept 12, 2006 21:34:23 GMT
Sorry Nat. I thought you were teasing. The words\facts would need ammending, but something like this: "During my 6th form years, I helped with GCSE music practicals and compositions at my school. I did ....... with the schoold band and orchestra, a role that involved instruction and support of .............. At Bangor University, during my first year I taught (your private students + any help you gave to friends at uni and students at your former school.)" The real clincher is the work you are doing now at school. The fact that the school thinks so highly of a former student that it is prepared to employ her whilst she is sill unqualified is huge, vast, enormous, colossal. Talk about a 'wow' factor. "During my second year at Bangor, (name of former school) employed me for one day a week as a peripatetic woodwind teacher. I taught (instruments) to x students. I enterred x students for AB exams, local festivals and prepared them for school concerts. I also (lists work with school bands, 'A' level work etc)" If I have learned one basic principle about life, Nat, it is this. If you got it, then flaunt it. What you are doing this year is not something I have ever heard of a uni student doing. I typed this little lot as I thought about it. Another basic life principle is: hit them with the best first, so you would actually present this little lot in reverse order to that in which I have typed it. There are a fair few people here to help you with ideas, too, so offer up the drafts as you make them.
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Post by princessmoose on Sept 12, 2006 21:36:26 GMT
Thank-you, you're a star .
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Post by kflute on Sept 13, 2006 20:43:57 GMT
I think normally for a secondary PGCE, you just have to get a 2.2 for your degree. Like Steve says, it'll be everything else that will put someone infront of others.
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Post by meepmeep on Sept 15, 2006 17:39:32 GMT
That looks like an excellent course for you, Nat... I hope it looks feasible!
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Post by princessmoose on Sept 15, 2006 18:42:15 GMT
I think normally for a secondary PGCE, you just have to get a 2.2 for your degree. Like Steve says, it'll be everything else that will put someone infront of others. Well if I don't get a 2:2 I'll give it up altogether .
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Post by kflute on Sept 15, 2006 18:50:59 GMT
Exactly!! I got a 2.1........................I got too involved with playing my flute and didn't spend enough time writing essays to get a first!! I was more than happy with my 2.1 though!
Have you had a reply from the RNCM?
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Post by princessmoose on Sept 15, 2006 18:52:02 GMT
No reply as of yet eep . Not too worried though, it's not urgent. I wish I was too involved with something and actually did some work .
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Post by kflute on Sept 15, 2006 18:57:15 GMT
I used to practice 4-6 hours a day at RNCM and then swim for the other hours!!! I had no time for essays!!! I used to work through the night the night before they had to be in. My house was always a hive of activity the night before an esay was due in!!!
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Post by princessmoose on Sept 15, 2006 19:00:05 GMT
Great! You can tell when an essay is due in for us because the pubs are empty! . Although I always go to rehearsals regardless of work. I had a composition due in the next day and I went to two 2 hour rehearsals the night before, whilst most of my mates were slaving away at it all night. I came back late, clicked a few notes on Sibelius, printed it and got a first . Some weren't best pleased .
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Post by kflute on Sept 15, 2006 19:04:31 GMT
We had no choice about rehearsals. If we didn't go, you were chucked out of college!!! You were unlucky if rehearsals and essays clashed!!!
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Post by Steve Hopwood on Sept 15, 2006 20:57:26 GMT
I used to practice 4-6 hours a day at RNCM and then swim for the other hours!!! I had no time for essays!!! If you had wanted to write essays, you would not have gone to RNCM ;D 'What a strange thing to expect a music college student to do' was my thought on the rare occasion one was expected from me. In my opinion, they deserved the rubbish I handed in ;D ;D ;D
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