Big decisions 
Sunday, April 20, 2014, 03:11 PM
It's quiet. Rachael's off at e-camp with her friend Emily. This is the junior version of Easter Camp, but with more mudslides and a trendier name. Hope the weather has been OK for them; we've had rain at last. The tank is full. The tents at Easter Camp got trashed in the storm on Thursday. But it sounds like they've found something else to sleep under instead.

Bronwyn has renewed her provisional teacher registration, but she's been told that she's got two years to finish the training and become fully registered. However, this means she'll need to find a job with a mentor for the next two years, or have to go through retraining. So it's now a big decision as to whether it's worth it, how much it means to her, and what the alternatives are.

At work, we've got a deadline of the end of the month, so we've been working hard to get everything finished. Except he wants a pre-release version ready to demo on Tuesday. Only found out on Thursday. Not sure that's going to be possible...

Comments

Jen 
Saturday, April 26, 2014, 06:07 PM
That is a very stressful decision to make. Sounds like they are being pills. Here there's not quite such tight regulation - I don't think.

You should move here...it's decided now.

How are you my dear?
Bronwyn 
Sunday, April 20, 2014, 04:39 PM
I am fully trained and have been for 20 years. But the teacher registration that was bought in have changed the boundries again. Before got full registraion when you had completed 2 years in a teaching postion of .5 or(20 hrs per week +) and had a mentor, follow guidelines set out in the critera and attend profestional development. Before you get full reg, you have provisional. The problem now is that because I just to relief teaching I don't do the hrs and the hrs I do can be in many centres. I am doing profestional development but not I've been told that the provisional reg rules have changed and now I have to get my full reg 6th April '16 or I loose it. So the choice is do I go back working full-time (part-time jobs in childcare are extemely rare, if at all) in which case what do we do about school hols, meeting's at rach's school and any counselling she has re. Aspergers as well as me risking getting very ill again; or do I give it all up... It takes 2 years to get full reg - it's getting towards end of April and my reg expires in early April '16 (less than 2 yrs) But I am fully trained and have been for many, many years!

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