@KIRSTY WEECHER
@DATA TYPE: RETROSPECTIVE
@LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
@COUNTRY: FRANCE
@PARTICIPANTS: S 
@SETTING: PRIVATE
@TIME: LATE
@SCHOOL: SECONDARY

1. Reflecting on  live recording

* I feel as if I did give the right impression of myself during this interview but that I could have been more confident and forceful. I realise that I found it difficult to communicate my feelings to Mme Hullet concerning my experience as an assistant and that I tended to um and ah and not really get to the point.  This occurred, I believe, partly due to the fact that I wasn't used to discussing my role as an assistant and my feelings concerning it, but also due to the fact that I rarely spoke to Mme Hullet and didn't know her very well.
* Looking back on it now, I don't really believe that I understood Mme Hullet's position as a teacher of 36 students.  I think that I underestimated how difficult it was for her to find time to deal with me when my role was actually quite a simple one.  On the other hand, I think that she was very clear and precise in stating what she required of me whereas I came across as a little bit young and nave.
* As I said in my tmoignage, I was extremely pleased with the outcome of the interview.  It was the first time that I had spoken to Mme Hullet at length and I found her to be a very reasonable person.  I was pleased to be asked about my classes and about my relationships with the students and I felt that we dealt with quite a few important issues in a short amount of time.  We addressed the timetable issues and the issue about marking.
* I feel as though my tmoignage is an accurate reflection of what happened in that it details the organisation behind the interview, my reflections upon the interview and the background behind the issues discussed.  The timetable issue was slightly difficult in that I don't think that it was actually necessary for her to repeat the contents of my timetable. This seemed to me more like a method of reassurance on her part.

2. Reflecting on relationship with responsable 

* I found my responsable very accommodating, friendly and open at the beginning of my assistantship.  I felt very privileged to have a person like that to look after me.
* My relationship with my responsable changed a great deal over a period of months.  I became very close to my responsable and got on very well with him indeed.  We ate lunch together regularly and I found out a great deal about his life.  I did get the impression during the time spent together the conversation was quite one-sided on M Debas' part.   Around about mid November, I decided quite unconsciously that I would try to make more effort with the other teachers at the school as M Debas had quite a monopoly on me.  Thus I ate lunch with him less and less.  I believe that this had a detrimental effect upon our relationship.  The crunch time came when he questioned me about the marks for the C & G and confronted me in a very unpleasant way.  After this, we really had no contact apart from the occasional encounter in the staffroom and in the corridor.




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