{"id":4062,"date":"2014-09-30T14:49:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/goglobal\/?p=424"},"modified":"2017-04-28T11:18:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T11:18:07","slug":"hannah-gaunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/hannah-gaunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah Gaunt \u2013 teaching abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hannah Gaunt,\u00a0Final year student in Sports Coaching, Sheffield Hallam University<\/h2>\n
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“I learnt how\u00a0to be innovative and my confidence grew so much because of this experience.\u00a0I believe it\u00a0makes me stand out and along with\u00a0my other sc\"Hannahhool experience contributed to succeeding in gaining a teach
\ner training year.<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I have been studying sport since college and will continue my studies when I graduate to\u00a0train to be a teacher. I have volunteered at many events, including sports days, coaching\u00a0and giving presentations on my time in Tanzania.<\/h5>\n

I spent 2 months in Tanzania and I got this opportunity through the University. It was a\u00a0formal application process and I was selected to go. I was a sports coach to an under 16\u2019s\u00a0girls’ football team, a teacher in colleges and schools and helped in the community with HIV\u00a0awareness.<\/p>\n

My most memorable experience was turning up to teach at a college. We were never told\u00a0how many people would be there or what we would be doing until the day. When we\u00a0arrived and got to class there were 98 students which 4 of us had to teach. They didn\u2019t\u00a0speak much English and didn’t always want to input so it was very challenging. I learnt how to be innovative and my confidence grew so much because of this experience.\u00a0The hardest thing for me was the realisation of how much I take for granted. Some of the\u00a0children I worked with had very little but were still the happiest children I have ever taught\u00a0or come across. The experience taught me to be thankful for everything I have and to\u00a0respect and value people a lot more.<\/p>\n

The best thing about the experience was seeing the children\u2019s faces every day when we\u00a0turned up to coach or at school. They were always so happy to see you and never wanted us\u00a0to leave. The worst thing about the experience was probably being away from my family\u00a0although at the time I wanted to stay longer and wouldn\u2019t change one minute of the trip.<\/p>\n

The experience has given me so much confidence and passion in what I do and what I want\u00a0to achieve. I learnt how to live in a completely different culture for 2 months and adapted to\u00a0their way of living. I gathered so many new idea about running lessons, games and how to\u00a0communicate effectively when you are faced with challenges such as language barrier.<\/p>\n

I feel\u00a0more motivated to achieve the things I want to achieve and I strongly believe that this\u00a0experience has made me more employable as I have developed a range of skills that are\u00a0essential in teaching jobs. I believe that this experience makes me stand out and along with\u00a0my other school experience contributed to succeeding in gaining a teacher training year.<\/p>\n

If I were to give advice to anyone who was planning to volunteer, I would say to do as much\u00a0as you can while you are out there in order to gain the most from the experience. If you go\u00a0in half-heartedly then you will not develop as a person and learn new skills.”<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re inspired by Hannah\u2019s story, then like our\u00a0Facebook page<\/a>\u00a0for all the latest exciting opportunities and news!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hannah Gaunt,\u00a0Final year student in Sports Coaching, Sheffield Hallam University “I learnt how\u00a0to be innovative and my confidence grew so much because of this experience.\u00a0I believe it\u00a0makes me stand out and along with\u00a0my other school experience contributed to succeeding in gaining a teach er training year. I have been studying sport since college and will … Continue reading Hannah Gaunt \u2013 teaching abroad<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[186,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-stories","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-13w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}