work experience Review

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Best work experience I have ever done and it being virtual because of covid did not get in the way of that at all.

Despite the huge number of people in the zoom call, the constant break out rooms with the workers at teach first allowed for me to feel welcome and valued.

Very helpful. Made it clear that they were always there to help us and all my questions were answered

In terms of how the experience helped me, I think it has been really beneficial because of the amount of self evaluation involved in this experience. I was made aware of my weakest skills and definitely took away practical ways to strengthen it. This has been useful for my degree because I can apply it to seminars in which my weakness hindered my participation.

Extremely well structured and every single session gave us enough time to cover what was needed. We were also well informed of the timetable which helped.

Great atmosphere. Very welcoming and so different to that awkward zoom classroom environment.

The companies values were very clear and this reflected in the activities we did which helped us in our own self development. We had a little session where we presented a lesson to the other peers in our zoom room. I think this is a great example of how the company invested in us because they gave feedback to each of our presentations and it was thoughtful and helpful information which helped me evaluate on my skills.

Very informative as I have explored in my other answers. In situations where questions arose, they were answered to a more than satisfactory standard. Before I started I had no interest or very little interest in pursuing a full time role with the company and i think that was because of my lack of knowledge/ The experience certainly enhanced my understanding around what it involved and now i am interested in applying for a future role with them.

Very much - I have stated how they made their key values key at the start and throughout the session - and we had to implement them.

Very very helpful - before it was just a little idea but now Im very invested in this as a possible career and definitely want to apply to their next stem trainee session. As i said before this i did not think teaching was something i wanted to pursue and i even lacked knowledge around it. I think this also helped me recognise why i am interested in things like human rights as a possible career path.

Yes we had a little opportunities fair - very interesting and informative

Honestly amazing- all the workers were so nice and we also had a little Christmas quiz which was fun. It was a nice moment of relaxation especially after the long hours on zoom. i think it being on the first day was great because it gave us a chance to meet other people. Another cool thing about it was that we were put into groups with people similar or close to us so we could talk about that to break the ice.

Yes - we spoke to people who had left teach-first but still felt a connection for the company

I definitely would recommend this even if you are not interested in teaching there are a lot of skills which can be taken away from this. It definitely helped clarify why I am interested in human rights, education, nGOS charity work etc. I think my answers show it was a great experience and with it being online I did not expect it to be so great but I 100% recommend this programme to anyone thinking about it.