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• W263969667 abstract "This is a description of my first teaching experience in Moe, Victoria, Australia. This article mentions many differences and some similarities between the American school system and the Australian school system. Some of the differences took me by surprise. Like any first-year teacher, there was some nervousness about beginning my teaching career, but all of this was multiplied by being far from home. Want to go to Australia? These were the five words that changed my life. Little did I know that when I said yes, things were going to change quickly. Instead of teaching close to home, I was going to be 24,000 miles away. Let me back up for just a minute. It was 1974, and graduation from Dana College in Blair, Nebraska, was fast approaching. I had no prospects for a teaching job. Having grown up outside a small town in Iowa, I wanted to stay nearby, so I narrowed my job search to teaching positions in Nebraska or Iowa. To my dismay, there were no open positions. A classmate and Physical Education/Health major, whom I had known throughout college, was also having no luck finding a job and had come across a brochure that said Australia needed teachers. One day while standing in line for lunch in the Student Center, he uttered those five little words; he wanted to know if I was interested in applying. I did some quick research in the library about Australia, and just days before graduation, I filled out the necessary paperwork. In two short months, I passed the inter- views, applied for a passport, filled out moun- tains of paperwork and found myself on a Qantas Airlines 747 filled with other teachers flying to Melbourne, Australia. Of course there was some trepidation as I thought about all those educa- tion classes geared toward teaching American students. What were students like in Australia? Could I actually do this? Gathering my courage, I disembarked the plane and went to a student hos- tel in Melbourne, Victoria, along with 25 other American teachers. While staying at the hostel, we were given a crash course about the Austra- lian school system. I didn't know when I would be picked up by my school principal, so a few of us went exploring in the city each chance we got. After three days at the hostel, I was excited to see my principal arrive. Nervously I put all my belongings in his car, said good bye to my fellow American teachers, and with my principal at the wheel, we drove east of Melbourne about 60 miles to Moe, Victoria. My teaching career was going to begin at Moe High School. My friend from college had also been picked up by his principal and went sixty miles west of Melbourne. Even though we saw each other only twice in 28 months, it was comforting to know that I had a friend just a phone call away. Educational Difference Were there some educational differences between America and Australia? The first thing I noticed when I arrived at the school was that the students wore uniforms. There were a few variations of the uniform that included a dress, skirt, blouse, pants, and sweater for girls and dress pants, white shirt, sweater, and tie for boys; but apart from their dress, these students were not so different from the American students I had encountered. They were very social and for the most part eager to learn. What about the academic subjects? English grammar is still English grammar; math is still math, and science is still science. History, though, was another matter. I had to remember that Columbus hadn't reached Australia. Music was still music; art was still art; physical education was. . . .oh, where was my gym and the locker rooms? There was no gym, just an oversized classroom filled with gymnastics equipment and tumbling mats. No indoor basketball court or volleyball court. Where were the locker rooms? See that long shed outside? the principal re- marked as he pointed across the courtyard; That's the girls' locker room. The boys' locker room is straight across the way, an exact match of the girls' locker room. …" @default.
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• W263969667 title "From Cornfields to Kangaroos" @default.
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