Comments | grapefruitzzz: corse it is

grapefruitzzz

corse it is

Sep 17, 2007 23:45

I am starting my teaching-adults A-levels course tomorrow, and it is a bit nervousising for some reason. Maybe beacause I'm not sure about it as I was with the MA, or because I have gone into a bit of a hole since then. Or maybe it's because they're paying me £6-10K to do the course. Someday. In the far future. Also I don't *really* see myself ( Read more... )

rent, study, television

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dzilinebisa September 17 2007, 23:26:43 UTC

Woop! Good luck! I bet you're full of nerves (I would be!) but you'll be fine. Better teaching grown-ups than kids, methinks. ;)

grapefruitzzz September 18 2007, 00:07:28 UTC

I can't sleep! Wonderful start to the course!

Thanks for the wishes, though!

dzilinebisa September 18 2007, 00:14:15 UTC

The students'll probably be the same, remember! I did my A-Levels in evening classes a couple of years ago and I was a bag of nerves for about a week before the course started.

grapefruitzzz September 20 2007, 20:42:05 UTC

I'm just learning how to teach the class at the moment. I don't think I'll be let loose on anyone until December. They also came up with the delightful news that the govt. is shunting a lot of 14-16 year olds onto adult education because they can't recruit teachers :D

mswyrr September 18 2007, 03:46:28 UTC

Hope the teaching goes well! Adult students, from what I've seen at community college, tend to be better behaved than kids because they're really invested in their own learning.

Winter started at about 7pm tonight when it all went suddenly cold. Dammit.

Huh. Strangely enough, it came on suddenly here, too. Usually it's a gradual thing.

grapefruitzzz September 20 2007, 23:21:52 UTC

I thought you lived in the desert!

mswyrr September 21 2007, 01:20:26 UTC

A desert where it snows sometimes, yes. :)

grapefruitzzz September 21 2007, 07:39:39 UTC

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mummimamma September 18 2007, 12:02:38 UTC

Good luck on the teaching. Remember to introduce yourself :) And even though you get a job teaching now doesn't mean that you have to do it for the rest of your life!! (I really hope so at least!!)

And landlords (and assistants) are stupid by default. Just hit him.

grapefruitzzz September 20 2007, 20:50:53 UTC

I'm not teaching yet, just learning how to teach. There are a whole mountain of regulations to go through first. Mmm, bureacracy, so nummy. I really just sort of hope it'll help with my PhD application as well as being a fun. part-time job. SO far they seem less zealous than the children's-teaching people.

mummimamma September 20 2007, 20:53:28 UTC

Learning how to do it? Huh, I never did that...
Regulations? Huh, I never saw those...

But I'm right there with you when it comes to the children...

grapefruitzzz September 20 2007, 23:47:08 UTC

IT's such flannel. I found out the sekrit govt. reason for all this... they can't recruit school teachers and expect people like me to teach 14-16 year olds. Erk.