Apr 28, 2006 10:25
Well it's that time of the month again, time for a good ole whinge. And what better place to whinge about than here. The comming comments should feel right at home :)
ATP: Assistant Teaching Practical
Duration: 10 weeks
Star LJ personality about to undertake this feat: me
Basically I have to plan for the first 5 weeks of school, doing one partictular subject. Usually language or maths.
Now this prac is staggered so that i do around 6 lessons in the first week. then about 10-12 in the secong, so on and so fourth till im doing around 60% of lessons by 5 weeks and 90% of lessons by the end of it all.
After aproaching the teacher she asked me to do the language lessons... all of them. Now as these guys are year twos language takes up around 60% of their time. Idiot me said yea ok i can do that. (This 60% of all lessons start straight away so when other will be teaching their lesson per day im doing about 3)
Usually the teacher gives u some direction as to what content she would like to be in it. Alas not in this case I went away from the one and only meeting with her email and the knowledge that I have to plan around 80 lessons on language. yay
So i finish a rough plan but a plan none the less and email it to her. THis plan is called a Forward Planning Document and it basically outlines what i want the kids to achieve, how i will get them to do it, and what i will evaluate them on etc. (this document took me around 20 hours to write up)
I got a rather rude reply back from her telling me what NEEDED to be changed. And thats it...
So pissed off me went about re working the document which has now turned into a document that looks less like an outline of learning and more of an actual plan of each event sequence for that lesson. over 8000 words and 21 pages later I have finally finished what I can only describe as my greatest achievement in the 5 years I have been at university.
So I have just sent this document to her, giving her a very detailed description of what I have included, all the work behind the scenes and what I intend to do with this document.
So there you have it. No more Essays due, finished my last exam ever a few days ago but alas i still need to write another of these in 5 weeks time, plus 4 others with less detail and I now have had absoloutely NO time off during these soo called holiday breaks.
In concluding, if in the next 10 weeks I jump on MSN (I'm unlikely to come on here due to it's time wasting potential) and I start talking to you and you notice a pattern of me whinging, please put up with it. It (hopefully) doesn't usually happen and I will be eternally grateful to let off steam.
Prawn
PS anyone who would like a copy of my greatest achievement at University is more than welcome to it, just ask :) No copyright, just burning potential.