| nomad_teacher ( @ 2005-03-05 12:07:00 |
It's been a while... There's no time to post.
I'm actually quite burned out at this stage. Not to mention feeling a little put upon, possibly cursed by fate. The course assessor is visiting on monday. It's bad enough having a session on a monday morning two weeks running, but first session, with the assessors presence making it the make or break session for the whole course. (Ralli is following with the second session. I worry a bit for her. She always looks exhausted these days. Not too much though. I save most of my worry for myself at present.)
To crown it off, the final essay (Student Case Study plus Language Related Tasks: 2000 words) is due Tuesday morning.
On the bright side my lesson gradings have gone "fail-borderline-meets the standard-meets the standard plus-meets the standard plus". If the trend continues then Monday and Friday's lessons will be well into "exceeds the standard". Working against that, though, is the perfectly understandable need for the school and tutor to be extra harsh on Monday with the assessor watching.
Still, my first essay passed without issue and there's been no bad news on the second yet. Additionally the essays I've seen from the last two years have had a quality to them which I'll be nice and describe as "simplistic and childish".
I did break a key rule of CELTA though and disagreed openly with the senior tutor. The subject was the timelining of a future perfect sentence. Hopefully she didn't take it personally.
Enough of this displacement activity. Back to listing anticipated problems inherent to learning the various uses and meanings of the word "work" along with the relevant pronouns, a set of generic job adjectives and a few co-locations in that lexical set.
(How do you spot the ex-computer geek on your TEFL course? He's the one who lunges for the jargon/terminology like a duck lunges for a drowned worm.)
I'm actually quite burned out at this stage. Not to mention feeling a little put upon, possibly cursed by fate. The course assessor is visiting on monday. It's bad enough having a session on a monday morning two weeks running, but first session, with the assessors presence making it the make or break session for the whole course. (Ralli is following with the second session. I worry a bit for her. She always looks exhausted these days. Not too much though. I save most of my worry for myself at present.)
To crown it off, the final essay (Student Case Study plus Language Related Tasks: 2000 words) is due Tuesday morning.
On the bright side my lesson gradings have gone "fail-borderline-meets the standard-meets the standard plus-meets the standard plus". If the trend continues then Monday and Friday's lessons will be well into "exceeds the standard". Working against that, though, is the perfectly understandable need for the school and tutor to be extra harsh on Monday with the assessor watching.
Still, my first essay passed without issue and there's been no bad news on the second yet. Additionally the essays I've seen from the last two years have had a quality to them which I'll be nice and describe as "simplistic and childish".
I did break a key rule of CELTA though and disagreed openly with the senior tutor. The subject was the timelining of a future perfect sentence. Hopefully she didn't take it personally.
Enough of this displacement activity. Back to listing anticipated problems inherent to learning the various uses and meanings of the word "work" along with the relevant pronouns, a set of generic job adjectives and a few co-locations in that lexical set.
(How do you spot the ex-computer geek on your TEFL course? He's the one who lunges for the jargon/terminology like a duck lunges for a drowned worm.)