CHARLES Sturt University student Brooke Chapman has become a familiar face at Mulwaree High School over the last few weeks.
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She is studying teaching and is currently completing one of her practical units at the school. Ms Chapman is from Wagga Wagga and completing the final year of her double degree, Bachelor of Arts/Teaching Secondary.
“Basically I’ll walk out with a degree in teaching English and History,” she said.
Ms Chapman has always wanted to be a teacher and loves working at Mulwaree. “It’s so exciting, it’s just something different every day,” she said.
Beginning her four-year-long course when she was about 19-yearsold, Ms Chapman has had some challenges along the way and said wrapping her head around the jargon was the hardest part.
“The educational language is very difficult,” she said. Ms Chapman is working at Mulwaree as part of a scholarship program.
“I got a George Alexander Foundation scholarship which is offered through Charles Sturt University so basically I got a little bit of extra funding to come here and experience it (teaching) which is really good,” she said.
“It makes it heaps easier because it means I can do more things for the kids in the classroom.” Ms Chapman will be staying in Goulburn for five weeks altogether and says she enjoys being here. Her favourite part of the town is one that citizens see often.
“Belmore Park, (is) gorgeous no matter what time of the year it is, it’s always green and it’s nice,” she said.
Ms Chapman is hoping she will be sent to a rural area to teach at the end of her course.
“I love rural communities and I love Goulburn but it’s kind of up to the Department of Education where I go,” she said.
The Post asked her what advice she would give students thinking about studying teaching.
“My advice would be definitely to do it! You don’t know what you’re in for until you are involved in it,” she said. “It’s really rewarding actually. You meet lots of interesting people. You learn ridiculously, you never stop learning, so teaching is learning.”