Claim to Fame
So excited I don’t know which to mention first, but in keeping with the title, I must disclose the claim to fame heading………..I have had a comment on my post from……….wait for it…………Dave Willis!!!! Yes, THE Dave Willis. How very kind it was to thank me for MY comments. I have raved about the books both on here and at college, and what’s more I passed the methodology/reflective practice assignment (well almost-I forgot to write in the phonemes-couldn’t manage to find them on the computer!!) Good old Task Based Learning, I say.
Moving on, I cannot contain my relief at the thought of no college tomorrow. I feel terribly guilty saying this, as it in no way reflects my enjoyment of the content (well most of it anyway-does anyone truthfully get excited about policies?) but I do have to say that Tuesdays have been very stressful, particularly when I have been up till four or five a.m. in order to meet deadlines for assignments!
The third was completed and duly handed in on the last day-this was the Learner support one, and it wasn’t quite as awful as I thought, but we will not have them back until September, so I shall simply put it out of my mind until then. Meanwhile, we have the Diagnostic Assessmnet assignment, which I am a little concerned about, as I have my own views on this which are not very complimentary. Then the Discourse Analysis, which will involve mountains of work, but actually looks quite interesting, as I mentioned before.
There is also a scheme of work to be planned and a rationale provided. This is difficult because it ties in with other portfolio requirements and as I work for a Training Provider, not a college, the intake is not on a yearly basis, but week to week, on a ‘Roll On, Roll Off’ system. Therefore students are arriving and leaving all the time, which makes the continuity of my portfolio difficult to maintain, to say the least.
For this week, though, I shall enjoy the freedom and the relief of having no balck cloud hanging over my head. (Just watch this space at the end of August-there will be one VERY stressed individual cursing for having left things until the last minute.
‘So what?’ I proclaim. ‘ Isn’t that what procrastinators do?’ I mean…….hay fever sufferers sneeze, smokers cough, drinkers slur their words, and procrastinators……well, you already know. Amnd if you don’t know, then you haven’t been paying enopugh attention to my diary blog, so I have no sympathy!!
I shall endeavour to astound everybody-including myself-by starting to think about these next mammoth tasks way in advance. Well, one can try, can’t one?
By the way, I found a resource I had thought was lost for eternity. I knew I had a dictaion activity related to money and numbers, which I need for a much later lesson I have to teach using numeracy. This was another great relief. I am now sharing my classroom again with a lovely lady from ‘Up North’ She and I are similar in many ways, and the last two weeks have been hectic, what with trying to make some space for her. After my last classroom sharer left, I simply spread out to fill the room with all my ‘stuff’. Now I have had to move everything in a hurry, and I doubt I will ever remember not just where I put things but what resources I had that have now been stashed away somewhere never to be found.
Middle daughter graduates next Tuesday, oldest son moves house the following week, and as you all know (if you’ve been paying attention), youngest daughter takes her G7 piano exam on 18th July.
Hmmmmmm! Did I say I would be LESS stressed when the term ended?????? Must start to plan some of these assignments. Just not yet-I’m off to bed to enjoy that wonderful feeling you experience when youhave ……….no college for two months!!!!!!!
