Welcome!

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog!

I am Nikita Mickan, a graduate, early career teacher based in Adelaide, South Australia. I graduated from Flinders University with a double degree (four years) of Bachelor of Education (Middle and Secondary Schooling)/Bachelor of Arts. I’ve majored in Legal Studies and English and am able to teach both from Year Eight to Stage 2. I am currently studying a Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) at Charles Sturt University.

I should note here, that while all attempts have been made to use Australia-wide terminology; I will be using some South Australian and South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) specific terms. Two of these include Stage One and Two which refer to Year Eleven and Twelve respectively.

I have completed three Professional Experience Placements, one solely observation and the other two where I taught three to four classes each time. My first teaching Placement (third year of my degree) involved teaching two Year Eight classes and one Year Nine class. These were all English classes and units were based around the genre of Horror (Year Eight) and Introduction to Shakespeare (Year Nine).

My second teaching Placement (final year of my degree) involved teaching Year Eight, Nine and Stage One English, and Stage One English.  I taught poetry at a Year Eight level, narratives at Year Nine, comparative advertisement analysis at Stage One within English. I taught Criminal and Civil Justice System to the Stage One Legal Studies class.

I will be utilising Creative Commons within this blog with any and all images, links and quotes etc., will be properly referenced and linked (if links apply). If referring to experiences within my past teaching, I will always use pseudonym’s to ensure past students, teaching staff and the schools in question privacy.

I do have an e-Portfolio showing how I have met the AITSL standards which can be found here: https://nikitamickanportfolio.weebly.com/

Outside of my studies, I work part-time at Big W (I have held various roles for 6 years) and have started a casual position as a trained team member at a primary school Out of School Hours Care (OSHC). I am hoping to gain Temporary Relief Teacher (TRT) work in the coming months. I have additional interests in European history, photography and cooking (as I am writing this, I have made a cookie pizza for the first time. Tastes amazing!). I also enjoy NCIS, NCIS: LA and the occasional reality TV show.
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I hope this gives you a bit of insight as to who I am and what my background and experience is. See you in the next post!