The third week of my placement is over.  It seems awful for me to keep counting the number of my placement weeks and it sounds as if I am not enjoying it which Is not true. I am in fact, enjoying my teaching very much and I think I have made the right choice by coming to the Uni to do my PGCE.  This week has been much calmer and the trouble class has at last calmed down.  I made them go to the Library yesterday to work on their power point presentation as part of their Key Skills.  I told them to produce at least ten slides before they could leave the class.  One of them said “You will be lucky to get two!” followed by another girl who said “What is the point?”  I felt like asking her “What is the point of you coming?”

I was asked to’ babysit’ a City & Guild IT Practitioners class on Wednesday.  I was briefed by the tutor who had babysat the previous lesson.  She was telling me the horrific things that had happened in the previous lesson: one girl was reduced to tears IT so that I could teach them.  It was lucky that I was involved in IT Management for many years so I talked for fifty mins about the ‘Implementation of a Business Application’.  I managed to attract their attention for this period but the next ten mins were awful.  No one wanted to do anything except just sit around and moan. 

One thing I have noticed about the overall attitude of college students is that only a handful of them are willing to learn.  They have come to college because of the EMA (government fund).  I personally think it is an easy way out of finding a job!