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Rhi Kate

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I want to go to UWS next year but i cant decide what iwant to do... I am tossing up between B teaching/ B Arts ( humanities teaching) or pyschology (sp)????
Any suggestions???
 

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just think where you can go further with... what has more opportunities for you and is the direction you wish to go in??
 

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you can always try a B Arts and then applay for a 1 yr B Teaching after you finish?
B Arts also has a psyche (?) as well.
The decision is really yours, but from other parts of BOS, some say UWS has the best Psyche course in Aus.
Teaching isnt a bad career move either, there are scholarships and a gauranteed job since there is a shortage of these skills, but the question is do you want to spend time with immature HS students? also do you have the ability to control the class? Of course you can learn these skills in the course but you have to like children as well and be a good teacher not some crap teachers that we have all had in the past.

Check the handbook for more info about the course. Also there will be a Deliberation day where you can discuss with lecturers about the course to put it into perspective. I dont know when the day is but they should sen d you a letter in Jan, before the main round offers. I went to one of them which gave me info about IT, it was a real eye opener for me.

hope it helps
 

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Oh shit... I feel so sorry for u!!!!!! That so sucks.

Thanks 4 ur help... yet i'm still indecisive lol
 

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natstar said:
Skeeta: Cant you do a science related course like B Science (Medical Science) and try and transfer to a uni that offers what you want to do?

Hardly... UWS is the only university in NSW that offers this course.. otherwise i would be quite happy to do so...
 

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Before you contemplate HS teaching think of the worst students in your year, the year below you and the year below that. Do you think you could handle that kind of person every school day?

The pay isn't bad but I could never see myself putting up with those types of students and chances are as a starting teacher you will end up with the lower level classes. Plus you may only get offered something way out in the bush or a run down metro school to start with as all the teachers with points slot into the coastal and in demand metro schools.
 

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