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Kevin Mcgrath
21 December 2008
KEVIN McGRATH
BACHELOR OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEYKEVIN MCGRATH, 21, will complete his degree in primary education at the University of Technology, Sydney, in 2010."I never wanted to be a teacher. It's something that caught me by surprise," McGrath says."When I was finishing the HSC, I made a list of possible career options and gradually made that list smaller and smaller. Primary teaching ended up at the top and I realised that I had been teaching for most of my life. I would help my friends with school work and tell people about interesting things that I had learnt."McGrath was determined to pursue a career that was interesting and challenging, with scope to explore his creativity. When he began his degree in 2007, he wasn't sure he would see it through. However, after visiting a primary school as part of his studies in the fourth week of his course, his mind was made up."I found that teaching is a very rewarding job," he says.As a male in a profession wrought with gender imbalance, McGrath says "the role of male primary school teachers is important in providing students with positive male role models and breaking down gender stereotypes"."Being male there are a lot of challenges you face and you really have to be transparent," he says. "People often think that men who become primary teachers are stepping down because they are awarded lower pay than other men. I think that male primary school teachers are gutsy."
