Teaching with Ms Whiston - BONUS EPISODE

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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In this special bonus episode in partnership with Get into Teaching, Alex is joined by Nicola Whiston. Nicola is an Assistant Principal from Stoke-on-Trent AND 2018 Math’s Teacher of the year. In this chat, Nicola told us about what made her get into teaching, the influence of social media on young people and her most memorable moments. Teachers are such foundations in our youth and this conversation got a little emotional so if you listen, are feeling inspired and are looking for a career where every day is totally different and every lesson can shape a life, then search Get Into Teaching now to find out more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Should I Delete That. This week's episode is brought to you in partnership
0:12.6	by Get Into Teaching and we are joined by Ms. Nicola Wiston, who is an assistant principal
0:18.1	and maths teacher from near-spoke entrant. We're going to chat to Nicola about her career
0:23.5	in teaching, how different every day looks, about how varied the job is and maybe some
0:29.9	memorable moments. So welcome to the podcast Nicola and thank you so much for joining us.
0:34.6	Morning, thank you for having me. So, I think we've both got to know this morning. Oh no,
0:40.6	you haven't got to know this morning. No up north, we haven't got to know for once today.
0:45.9	I'm quite jealous, even though it looks really pretty outside right now. I know it's going
0:49.7	to be an absolute nightmare, so that's fine. So, we'd love to jump in with how long have you
0:57.7	been teaching? It would be good if you could tell us a bit about how you got into teaching.
1:02.6	What made you become a teacher? What was the impetus? So, I think I've been teaching about 15
1:09.9	years now, something like that. I didn't go straight into teaching from university. I did a year
1:17.1	with the nine to five in the four weeks holiday, that type of thing, but I always wanted to be a
1:22.1	teacher. I was just put off a bit in school by being too nervous myself to speak in front of
1:27.6	classes. I was that student that didn't want to read in English or anything like that, but I loved
1:32.4	P.A. MP was what I wanted to do and just I wasn't happy. I just didn't feel like I was giving
1:39.6	anything back or changing any lives and I felt very office based and restricted and so sort of
1:46.4	some getting to teaching campaigns and they were actually looking for maths teachers. Now, I was
1:51.4	really, I was like naturally good at maths and liked it and that's what swayed me to go into maths
1:57.4	and give that a go. So, I just went for it and took a pathway in with a like a maths conversion
2:05.2	course, enhancement course because my degree wasn't in maths either. And then this is where I've
2:09.8	got teaching. Amazing, and that was 15 years ago. Yeah, a long time now. That was like, yeah, quite a
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