Matt Holbrook-Bull
Founder
Hi all,
just thought Id try and explain my lack of contact with the site and you all in the last few months.
As some of you know, Im a mature student at Bournemouth and Poole College doing a BTEC in IT. This was a hard change for me, after 15 years out of education and a breakdown 3 years ago, but after a while, and alot of support from my tutor team, I got settled nicely.
Not long after I started, I was invited to hold a Student Board Member position as well. This basically makes me an elected Governor representing my campus, some 12,000 students. In this role Im involved in everything right down to strategic planning, which is fascinating, and very confusing at times!
Recently, my dream of teaching came to the attention of the Principle who amazingly has jumped on it. To cut a long story short, we now have an 18 month plan for me to hopefully start in a full time tutor position once this course is over. During this time, I'm doing a number of instructor exams to help broaden my usefulness when the time comes. I plan to fit in lots of voluntary learning support assistant hours to increase my experience as well as actually teaching some subjects on my 1 day off a week from September.
As you can imagine, this has left me with no time at all for the society or website duties. It took me a while to get my head around pulling back, it felt very uncomfy for a while. But thanks to the patience of the boys, especially James and Dan, I came back down to earth and let the others handle things, as theyre obviously very capable of doing.
From now on, Ill have a very much back seat role, although Ill try to be part of what I think I can handle. Once I start teaching, Ill be holding down a full time teaching job, and doing the teacher qualifications 'on the job' at the same time. So again, this will limit me alot!
Anyway, I just felt that I owed you all an explanation, the founders included as Im not sure if Ive been very clear so far. Thanks for everything you've all done since we started nearly a year ago, Ill be part of things as we go forward hopefully, but Ill be watching more than driving like the others.
This is a dream for me to become a teacher, something I never thought possible, and I have to give it 110% to pull it off, but I owe it to myself and everyone thats helped me through my illness in the last 3 years to make it.
See you on the forum.
Matt
just thought Id try and explain my lack of contact with the site and you all in the last few months.
As some of you know, Im a mature student at Bournemouth and Poole College doing a BTEC in IT. This was a hard change for me, after 15 years out of education and a breakdown 3 years ago, but after a while, and alot of support from my tutor team, I got settled nicely.
Not long after I started, I was invited to hold a Student Board Member position as well. This basically makes me an elected Governor representing my campus, some 12,000 students. In this role Im involved in everything right down to strategic planning, which is fascinating, and very confusing at times!
Recently, my dream of teaching came to the attention of the Principle who amazingly has jumped on it. To cut a long story short, we now have an 18 month plan for me to hopefully start in a full time tutor position once this course is over. During this time, I'm doing a number of instructor exams to help broaden my usefulness when the time comes. I plan to fit in lots of voluntary learning support assistant hours to increase my experience as well as actually teaching some subjects on my 1 day off a week from September.
As you can imagine, this has left me with no time at all for the society or website duties. It took me a while to get my head around pulling back, it felt very uncomfy for a while. But thanks to the patience of the boys, especially James and Dan, I came back down to earth and let the others handle things, as theyre obviously very capable of doing.
From now on, Ill have a very much back seat role, although Ill try to be part of what I think I can handle. Once I start teaching, Ill be holding down a full time teaching job, and doing the teacher qualifications 'on the job' at the same time. So again, this will limit me alot!
Anyway, I just felt that I owed you all an explanation, the founders included as Im not sure if Ive been very clear so far. Thanks for everything you've all done since we started nearly a year ago, Ill be part of things as we go forward hopefully, but Ill be watching more than driving like the others.
This is a dream for me to become a teacher, something I never thought possible, and I have to give it 110% to pull it off, but I owe it to myself and everyone thats helped me through my illness in the last 3 years to make it.
See you on the forum.
Matt