squeakypigs
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I have got 2 interviews on Wednesday for the University of Northampton (where I want to go!) One of the Primary Education leading to QTS and other is Early Years leading to QTS.
For Primary Ed course, I have to do literacy and numeracy tests, a group discussion and presentation.
For my presentation, I have to read a prepared passage of 250-300 words. The material could be from a source such as a journal, textbook, biography or a newspaper. The reading should be related to any aspect of history (Subject I have chose to specialise in) or history teaching, providing that it will demonstrate an adult level of comprehension. You will need to show that you can read fluently at this stage of your presentation.
I have then got to talk about the significance of my chosen reading material. They will be look for enthusiasm, knowledge and communication skills.
I have decided to do my presentation on Florence Nightingale - I have never ever done about her before however, I know it is a topic many primary schools cover now.
I have chose to get my material from a biography. This is the passage I am going to read - I have taken 2 paragraphs from the biography (in different parts of the book)
Florence Nightingale is known the world over as the Lady with the Lamp, the heroine of the Crimean War, the founder and inspiration of modern nursing. Yet she had to struggle until she was thirty-three to be allowed to do what she wanted, and was never satisfied with what she had achieved. She was born with all the advantages of money, breeding and beauty, yet she was desperately unhappy for most of her life. She had an intensely rational, scientific mind, yet was sincerely convinced that she had been “called†by God. She was attractive to men, yet she never married, and had perhaps her most profound relationships with women. She was an invalid, bedridden for fifty years, yet from her bed she managed to organise a barracks in England, sanitation in India, nurses’ training schools, workhouses, and district nursing; bedridden and considered on the verge of death at the age of thirty-seven, yet she lived to be ninety. Like so many products of the Victorian myth-machine, Florence Nightingale was at once more intensely human, more abrasive and more pitiable than ever her myth allowed. And therein, surely, lies her fascination.
She plunged into charity work, nursing the sick villagers, providing hot meals and other help for the destitute. And suddenly, unexpectedly, she found relief from her own troubles. In helping others she forgot about her torturing thoughts, and was freed from the habit of dreaming. It was an illumination. Suddenly she knew what she wanted to do, what she was happy doing, what her “call†was. She wanted to be a nurse. “Since I was twenty-four,†she wrote thirteen years later in a private note, “... there never was any vagueness in my plans or ideas as to what God’s work was for me.â€
What do you think? - If anybody can think of any significance about Florence Nightingale, I would welcome any ideas
I also have to do a short presentation for Early Years. It has to be about a child I have worked it. - I have no idea what they are exactly looking for so if you have any ideas on that too, let me know
For Primary Ed course, I have to do literacy and numeracy tests, a group discussion and presentation.
For my presentation, I have to read a prepared passage of 250-300 words. The material could be from a source such as a journal, textbook, biography or a newspaper. The reading should be related to any aspect of history (Subject I have chose to specialise in) or history teaching, providing that it will demonstrate an adult level of comprehension. You will need to show that you can read fluently at this stage of your presentation.
I have then got to talk about the significance of my chosen reading material. They will be look for enthusiasm, knowledge and communication skills.
I have decided to do my presentation on Florence Nightingale - I have never ever done about her before however, I know it is a topic many primary schools cover now.
I have chose to get my material from a biography. This is the passage I am going to read - I have taken 2 paragraphs from the biography (in different parts of the book)
Florence Nightingale is known the world over as the Lady with the Lamp, the heroine of the Crimean War, the founder and inspiration of modern nursing. Yet she had to struggle until she was thirty-three to be allowed to do what she wanted, and was never satisfied with what she had achieved. She was born with all the advantages of money, breeding and beauty, yet she was desperately unhappy for most of her life. She had an intensely rational, scientific mind, yet was sincerely convinced that she had been “called†by God. She was attractive to men, yet she never married, and had perhaps her most profound relationships with women. She was an invalid, bedridden for fifty years, yet from her bed she managed to organise a barracks in England, sanitation in India, nurses’ training schools, workhouses, and district nursing; bedridden and considered on the verge of death at the age of thirty-seven, yet she lived to be ninety. Like so many products of the Victorian myth-machine, Florence Nightingale was at once more intensely human, more abrasive and more pitiable than ever her myth allowed. And therein, surely, lies her fascination.
She plunged into charity work, nursing the sick villagers, providing hot meals and other help for the destitute. And suddenly, unexpectedly, she found relief from her own troubles. In helping others she forgot about her torturing thoughts, and was freed from the habit of dreaming. It was an illumination. Suddenly she knew what she wanted to do, what she was happy doing, what her “call†was. She wanted to be a nurse. “Since I was twenty-four,†she wrote thirteen years later in a private note, “... there never was any vagueness in my plans or ideas as to what God’s work was for me.â€
What do you think? - If anybody can think of any significance about Florence Nightingale, I would welcome any ideas
I also have to do a short presentation for Early Years. It has to be about a child I have worked it. - I have no idea what they are exactly looking for so if you have any ideas on that too, let me know
