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some_stars) wrote2012-04-04 05:16 pm
some_stars) wrote2012-04-04 05:16 pm
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So my first morning of shadowing school tours at the science museum went well! I followed one guy who was brilliant, a natural teacher and great with kids, but also said a couple racist things (it was the ~Hall of the Americas~ and his approach to mythology and religion was...questionable; also, "Eskimos."). And then I followed another, younger guy through the wildlife dioramas, and he was absolutely terrible, which was also quite instructive. I am SUPER EXCITED about doing this myself, you guys, like I was getting more and more anxious over the weekend, but while shadowing today I kept having to stop myself from jumping in and trying to teach stuff, it just felt totally natural. So I think this is going to go well.
I have ten more hours of training, including minimum two more mornings (four more hours) of shadowing, before I can become a docent, and of course the school year will end a few weeks after that. I think there's still tours and stuff during the summer, and I can also work the "touch carts" which are full of artifacts and replicas and fossils and so forth that can be passed around for kids (or grownups) to handle, while the presenter talks about them. And for that you just stand there and talk to people who pass by. I've been thinking about working at the summer camps, but I'm pretty sure that's a five-days-a-week job. On the one hand, awesome experience, I would be great at it and love it and it would really help improve my teacher school applications next year. On the other hand: no paying job. Basically I would have to just not move out of my parents' house until at least fall. So IDK.
Also, 1491 arrived at my branch library! I'm going to go start on it right now. Libraries are MAGIC, they just GIVE you things.
I have ten more hours of training, including minimum two more mornings (four more hours) of shadowing, before I can become a docent, and of course the school year will end a few weeks after that. I think there's still tours and stuff during the summer, and I can also work the "touch carts" which are full of artifacts and replicas and fossils and so forth that can be passed around for kids (or grownups) to handle, while the presenter talks about them. And for that you just stand there and talk to people who pass by. I've been thinking about working at the summer camps, but I'm pretty sure that's a five-days-a-week job. On the one hand, awesome experience, I would be great at it and love it and it would really help improve my teacher school applications next year. On the other hand: no paying job. Basically I would have to just not move out of my parents' house until at least fall. So IDK.
Also, 1491 arrived at my branch library! I'm going to go start on it right now. Libraries are MAGIC, they just GIVE you things.