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Name: Emma Serafin.
School: Forest Hill Public School.
Grades and subjects taught: years 3/4 and dance teacher.
1. Why did you become a teacher?
I had some very inspirational teachers when I was at school and I just wanted to be like them.
Also helping students and kids was something that I wanted to do.
2. What’s the best or worst excuse a student has ever given for not doing their homework?
‘I didn’t get it’, or ‘my rabbit ate it’.
3. What’s the most embarrassing thing that has happened to you in the classroom?
I fell up the library steps, flat on my face and sprawled out the steps in front of my class last year, nothing too embarrassing this year – fingers crossed.
4. What do you love most about your job?
Probably the ‘ah-ha’ moments students have when you are able to make that connection and see their successors and achievements.
5. What’s the funniest question a student has ever asked you?
I’m not sure about question, but I get called mum a lot and that’s always funny.
6. What’s the biggest change you’ve witnessed during your teaching career?
Technology for sure, the new apps that are in, the new programs that come out, how quickly they change and how up to speed we need to be with them.
Definitely, the change in the need for data as well and trying to find the work-life balance is quite difficult.
7. Who’s harder to keep in line – parents or children?
Not the parents, we have very supportive parents at our school, so if I had to choose it would be the students.
8. What’s your secret to controlling an unruly class?
We love rewards in my class and smelly stickers.
9. What’s the one subject you would never want to teach?
That’s a hard one, because we have to teach everything and know the tricks of the trade.
I have had conversations with other colleagues who are high school teachers, so I probably would not want to teach at that level.