Teaching Learning David Hillenthen

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Teaching Learning by David Metzenthen

In the short text “Teaching Learning”, Sandy moves to a new country to teach at Wyncha State School. In this new country, Sandy is completely isolated from anything she has ever been familiar with in the past. This means that Sandy must be resilient in order to deal with the new, unfamiliar environment that she is faced with.

“Teaching Learning” raises issues which are relevant to readers future lives. This is because we are all eventually going to have to step out of our comfort zones at one point or another in our lives. For Sandy, this means packing up her life and moving to a far away country where she is surrounded with unfamiliar people and an unfamiliar culture. For readers, stepping out of our
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This is because many countries worldwide, including New Zealand, are getting increasingly more diverse in culture. In order to deal with this and to live comfortably, we must all learn to respect and accept other people and their cultures.Through Sandy demonstrating respect and acceptance for the new and unfamiliar culture that she comes across after moving to Wyncha, She was able to interact, fit in and make new friends with the people. As a result of this, Sandy finds her time away from her family and friends from home a little bit easier because she was able to make friends in Wyncha also. This aspect of the text also demonstrates a theme of “accepting others allows you to lead a happier life.” This is because if Sandy had not immersed herself in the new culture and ignored everybody on the sole basis that she had come from a very different social and economic background from them, she would have had a very miserable year away from. Not only this, but, she would also have not been able to interact very easily with the students she taught at Wyncha State School because she would not have been able to respect them for who they were. Because Sandy respected the people for who they were and their culture, they respected her for who she was and her culture. As a result of this, sandy was able to easily make new friends and thoroughly enjoy her year in

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