It is a bittersweet
emotion sitting here with less than 10 days left on my exchange. Of course I have
missed my friends and home, but I have also had a great time being in Ireland
and have got new friends here as well.
I have
learnt a lot while being here. It is a whole different culture which I have
enjoyed immensely to explore; seeing the beautiful nature, visiting historical
places and meeting the people.
The Montessori
School has taught me a great deal as well. It has opened my eyes to a totally different
way of teaching; one that I hadn’t imagined could work, but however it worked
very well and children that I would have thought were too young to be in school
knew both how to read and write and some of them were even better at Geography
than I am.
This has
been a great experience for me and I’m sure that it will be very useful for me
in the future.
Although
there are some conflicts between what I have learned back home at
Blaagaard/KDAS and what I have learnt at St. Nicholas Montessori College, I am
sure that I can use parts of the Montessori method in whatever classroom I end
up in which will have great gain for the pupils.
I have
hopes to come back to Ireland at one point to live, if only for a couple of
years and I’m strongly considering spending a year, studying a high diploma in
Montessori Primary teaching when I finish Teaching College.
Now we will
see what time brings.