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The article discusses the author's experience of teaching in Qatar. There are many ups and downs to teaching among the shifting sands of Qatar. The author says that boys and girls are taught in separate classes in the school where he is working. The author's lunchtime duty is on the field where the school boys race around playing football. The author is grateful because his duty is for 15 minutes in a temperature of 38 degrees celsius. The second coursework evening is almost the same as the first.

The article discusses the author's experience about her first day at school. She points out that teaching is a fabulous job who stimulates subject matter, great colleagues, amazing holidays. She said that she has established on the relentless turning hamster wheel on her life as a working mother. She often thinks back on the moment of epiphany on her first inset day.

The article discusses the author's experiences of teaching pupils how to tackle waste and recycling. The author took on the role of facilitator rather than the conventional teacher leader role. The author started the topic through a business and enterprise day where students built lifesize recycling super heroes out of rubbish. The students were taught the Matrix which consists of 42 activities linked to Bloom's taxonomy. Activities, equated with knowledge and understanding, were worth two points. After adding up to a minimum of 18 points, pupils were free to select activities. While completing their final lesson, pupils assessed completed tasks.

The article discusses the author's experience of being a part-time lecturer and chairman of governors at a primary school in Great Britain. She went off to college and do her usual teaching every Monday and then rush back to school to check out the pre-inspection report with the head. He saw two young ladies who have a screaming match in which questions each other's moral rectitude. All that remains for her to do now is to inform the other governors about the results and teach her own classes.

The article discusses the author's views on how he feels after getting the first job of a technology teacher. The author has experienced many situations, he has never gone weak at the knees but the day he was offered his first teaching job, he managed to do that. The author says that it was the thought that he would be working in a school with technology status, something that he had hoped for. People feel nervous when they stand in front of at least twenty hormonal and rebellious teenagers. The biggest thing for the author is getting the first post.

The article discusses the author's experience of teaching profession which is a vocation. Teachers teach for the emotional and academic response from pupils and for the time they can spend pursuing a subject they love. The author is glad that she has stretched herself economically. The author and her daughter have their own house and soul enriching view but on the other hand the author is finding her direct debits completely debilitating. Recently, the author was on a Fast Track residential course for three days.

The article discusses the author's experiences of becoming a scaffolder. Earlier, the author used to do teaching. The author got training to explore the curriculum and be the ultimate authority. The author was never really comfortable with that idea. The author half-heartedly attended a course on assessment for learning which had revolutionized his thinking and practice forever. The author has enjoyed his new job as a scaffolder because he focuses less on his teaching and more on learning. The success of his lessons depends on adopting a low profile and allowing children to maintain ownership of their learning.