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This is a photo of my workplace.
I am a teacher forTAFE New England. I work at the Armidale campus, located in the New England region of NSW, Australia.

The space you are seeing in this picture is both a class room and a simulated children's service.
We have classes for students who study in a variety of ways including; internal students, who recieve face to face classes. External students,  who have both face to face and self paced learning. Trainees, who are recieving training in the workplace, whilst being supported by face to face and self paced learning. Commercial Training, where students may have completed their formal study, however wish to attend special workshops to remain current in their practices.
Many of our students are located in remote areas, which means lots of planning and flexibility for teachers, students and industry.

During the week we offer a simulated service, where families bring their children and students will observe and plan for them as they would in the workplace. I will explore this more in later posts, but I feel very proud of this aspect of our teaching. It gives the students, some with little or no experience, an opprotunity to interact and practice their skills as early childhood educators, in a safe learning environment..

I look forward to sharing with you my role as an educator in the early childhood industry, and in turn, learning more about the fascinating things that are being done in other corners of the globe.

Ann