Amy+Wennan

= = = =  Media Studies and English ||  ||  ||   
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 * >  ||> **Educational Background: ** |||||| Amy began her Educational career at the age of 5 at [|Glenferrie Primary Schoo]l. This first encounter with formal education still reminds her of the importance of good teaching, as her transition into Prep was marred by a personality clash with her first prep teacher. After a very miserable few months, she was moved into the other Prep classroom, and her real educational career began.

Amy attended [|Camberwell High School] for the majority of her secondary schooling. After a number of years there, she decided to leave the school at the end of Year 11 and finish her studies at a school more suited to her individual needs as a student. She completed her VCE at [|Swinburne Senior Secondary College], an adult educational style school with a focus on the Arts in its curriculum and a campus exclusively for Year 11, 12 and 13 students.

Amy ventured into higher education at [|Swinburne University] in the late 1990's, but decided she needed a break from formal study and withdrew. She entered the work force for a number of years, then decided to pursue her dream of becoming a Sound Engineer and completed a Certificate 4 in Sound Engineering at [|RMIT TAFE]. Soon after, Amy decided to follow her lifelong passion for Media Studies and completed a Bachelor of Media Studies at [|La Trobe University] in 2005. She is currently following her long held interest in becoming a Media Studies teacher and undertaking a Graduate Diploma of Education (Secondary) at La Trobe University. ||
 * >  ||> **Philosophy: ** |||||| I believe that learning is a life long process woven from the tapestry of experiences we go through in our lives. Sometimes we make good choices, sometimes bad ones. Sometimes fate intervenes and sometimes we make our own fate. Whatever life brings to us, it is our ability to engage with our world and with others, to create ideas, form judgments, re-evaluate our opinions and contribute to the lives of our fellow humans that brings meaning to our existence. Our births are random accidents and our deaths are inevitable: it is what we do with the bit in between called 'life' that counts.
 * >  ||> **Philosophy: ** |||||| I believe that learning is a life long process woven from the tapestry of experiences we go through in our lives. Sometimes we make good choices, sometimes bad ones. Sometimes fate intervenes and sometimes we make our own fate. Whatever life brings to us, it is our ability to engage with our world and with others, to create ideas, form judgments, re-evaluate our opinions and contribute to the lives of our fellow humans that <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">brings meaning to our existence. Our births are random accidents and our deaths are inevitable: it is what we do with the bit in between called 'life' that counts.

Education is in my blood: my path to life was set in motion when my mother and father met at their first teaching job in a primary school in Melbourne's north in the mid 1970's. I spoke and read at a precociously young age, and have been a truly voracious reader ever since. I discovered my passion for music and media studies in my teens. I had always been interested in books, reading and writing, but it was in my first Media Studies class room at the age of 14 that I finally found my calling. Here was a medium that pervades all of our human societies in one form or another, then re-presents our reality back at us in changed and distorted ways. How does this strange alternate reality work? Why? And who says so? I was spellbound, and completely hooked.

I hope to be the type of teacher who can inspire kids to reach down inside themselves and experience that moment of revelation in the class room just as I did all those years ago. The modern media is a multi-faceted and constantly evolving medium, and children are target marketed and demographically profiled from the moment of their birth. If we are to create curious, engaged and successful adults, we need to foster their ability to think critically about the world of information they are living in. I hope to bring my passion for communication and thinking to my class room, to enable my students to achieve their best, whatever that may mean for them. I hope to learn to navigate the traps and snares of administration, assessment, workplace politics and class room disasters and come out a stronger and better teacher for it. I hope to allow my passion and my enthusiasm for my subject areas to shine through in my work, and to appreciate and engage with the passion and enthusiasm of my students and colleagues for their work as well. || Certificate 4 in Sound Production - 2000 Bachelor of Media Studies - 2005 Graduate Certificate in English - 2008 Graduate Diploma in Education - 2009 ||
 * >  ||> **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Qualifications: ** |||||||| <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Victorian Certificate of Education - 1995
 * >  ||> **<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Qualifications: ** |||||||| <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Victorian Certificate of Education - 1995

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