Monday

[purpletigron]

G is safely away for factory testing. D should be coming back on-line from the observatory soon, having set out on Saturday.

The weather forecast has been upgraded from cool and very wet to cool and showery - unfortunately, we need the rain :-( It should be warm and showery later in the week... and my water-butts are primed to catch whatever rain we do get.

Is it a bad to want to shout at my PGCE course materials? Major problems include: verbose political correctness from Government; unfocused idealised urgings from academics; ambiguous wordings from both; and the gulf between long lists of theoretical requirements, and the reality of school life.

At least I'm sleeping a little better... Even when I was trying not to 'strive to be a perfect (student) teacher', the contradictions were too stressful :-(

Comments

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

G is safely away for factory testing.

Great scot - I hope they don't find anything wrong with him!

Is it a bad to want to shout at my PGCE course materials?

Oh dear. :::Sympathy:::

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Actually, there are a couple of bugs that need fixing (mostly, in the sinus area :-(

As my friend below puts it, education documents are so often a load of guff...

[muninnhuginn]

... the gulf between long lists of theoretical requirements, and the reality of school life

My sympathies. I finished on Friday a read through of the School Development Plan and, when not doing the grammatical nit-picking bit, got caught between the guff about nice aims and the actual actions. And I don't have to implement the stuff (or not very much, tho' I think there were some actions for governors).

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Oh, those documents are nightmares.

They should all be required to fit on one side of A4 - with standard margins and 11pt text.