Will I live long enough to see the DFS Sale end!!!

Well finally handed in the assignment so now I just about have one free hour a day to sleep now. Not sure if i will survive the stress to see the DFS sale end though.........

I have spent the last couple of weeks teaching AS Biology, this has been really fun, the group are good and all join in with all my mad-capped activities, with only a modicum of chivvying along. I have set up a moodle site with all my resources on, and I spent hours making a who wants to be a millionaire PowerPoint quiz. This class is going very well with the only issue being that my mentor wants me to be very enthusiastic when a student answers a question, this requires a lot of acting on my part and I am worried about patronising them. I also have been doing tutorial sessions with the A2 group and this has been fun, like all of us on the PGCE we have at least been through one Uni course, in my case this is my third so I was able to give them a good idea of what Uni entails.

I have also just started teaching on the Access to nursing course this is very different environment to the AS course. The classes are set up to be more university like, in order to prepare them for their future course. These classes have a massive range of entry level knowledge with some having long history of employment in the nursing field whilst others are much more close to school leaver levels of education. This means that you have to target the teaching at the lowest levels whilst try to engage the higher-level students. Luckily I have lots of relevant experience of working in a hospital and I can get the high level learners to put the theory in to a practical context whilst the other are still exploring the theory as an abstract concept.

I have also been observing and taking part in some classes at the local school in A2 and AS biology classes and the difference is massive. The school kids are so lively not like the college students.

All in all the last few weeks have been massively fun and useful I am much more confident in the class room. I just have to get my resource based learning assignment started properly now.