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silly rabbit, brains are for zombies!
Apr. 17th, 2010 07:08 pmwell, our actual classes are wrapping up and in a few weeks I will off to my prac placement. It's really silly, but one of things I will miss most are the music workshops and the drama workshops. It was immensely fun to get into a circle and sing songs and clap rythmns. Twenty of us held hands in a circle XD. In drama, getting in role was very good. Why did I miss all this stuff in high school or in undergrad? Oh right, too busy concerned with image and seriousness and being "legitimate".
/slaps 18 yr old self.
/slaps 18 yr old self.
ah, a change!
Apr. 2nd, 2010 01:37 pm I went to the hairdresser and now my hair is blonde. BLONDE!!! It looks nice and I am happy with it. It isn't a platinum blonde or anything, but it kind of bumps up the original light brown to levels of FAHBULOUS. I have been a blondie since I was nine. My hair still smells deliciously of harsh chemicals.
nature by numbers.
Mar. 30th, 2010 08:32 pmI was looking for audio visual material as focus material for an integrated unit. This is on the front page of vimeo. Wow!
Nature by Numbers from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
Just finishing up on my first piece of assessment for the semester. It's been years since I have had to do this. Fingers crossed I have jumped back in the saddle successfully!
It's getting hard to think of zombie themed subject titles and I am only five entries in!
It's getting hard to think of zombie themed subject titles and I am only five entries in!
there's a zombie on the lawn.
Mar. 25th, 2010 03:34 pmI have to contact the advisor for my school tomorrow. So full of nerves. It's at these times where I have to constantly remind myself to push ahead with what I am doing. Nerves, nerves, I hate getting nerves! I wish I could be cool and assured without appearing like a twat. In hindsight, I know its silly to worry about it, that nerves are something that nearly everybody experiences. Hindsight is hindsight and does nothing to allieviate the almost physical sickness that my nerves bring on. Now, perspective! By contact I mean I have to make a phonecall. Yes, I am a wet noodle.
I had a full day of classes. Today and friday are my worst days for class. Seriously, who timetables three hours of math curriculum on a friday afternoon? My university, apparently. One feature of the program I am enrolled in is that a wealth of information is dumped upon us in such a short period of time. For one semester we have 9 weeks of class and then six weeks of placement. This means that the entire set of skills we need for teaching mathematics and teaching literacy is thrown down in weeks 1-9! Its very much a one shot deal here. We don't revisit english and math content at all. I have to make the most of my time here. Oh and independently from the univerisities, the QCT is introducing literacy and numeracy tests as a requirement for entry.
It's good to come home and stretch, XD.
It's good to come home and stretch, XD.
we got these undead
Mar. 23rd, 2010 03:48 pmClasses are done for the day. I am going to do some reading of the textbook and work on an annotated bibliography. I found out my prac placement today. I am happy with where I am at. Basically, I didn't care whether it was state or private, catholic, protestant or secular schooling. As a student teacher, I am slowly realising that good teaching is something that comes mostly from your skills and that working in a wide range of environments will only broaden my experience.
In addition to prac, I have to undertake wider professional experiences. This entails 50 hours of well....a mixture of things. I am going to do a first aid course (which I am hoping to amounts to ten hours), and I am hoping to be able to volunteer at my prac school. The Royal Children's Hospital runs the wonder factory programme. I should email the PEO to see if this sort of activity would be acceptable. I could volunteer my Saturday mornings, yeah!
On another, more sad, note, I paid my tuition fees outright for this semester. Australian tertiary education is cheaper in comparison to other places I guess, but still! a hole in my pocket.
In addition to prac, I have to undertake wider professional experiences. This entails 50 hours of well....a mixture of things. I am going to do a first aid course (which I am hoping to amounts to ten hours), and I am hoping to be able to volunteer at my prac school. The Royal Children's Hospital runs the wonder factory programme. I should email the PEO to see if this sort of activity would be acceptable. I could volunteer my Saturday mornings, yeah!
On another, more sad, note, I paid my tuition fees outright for this semester. Australian tertiary education is cheaper in comparison to other places I guess, but still! a hole in my pocket.
Really tired at the moment. It's 1am and I am ready to go to bed. I am posting to clear my head and arrange the day's events in my head. I find out the location of my prac placement tomorrow. Hellishly exciting is one way to describe it. I am looking to teaching. One of the things I have lost touch with over the ideas is a love of language as it appears in literary and non lit texts. One class I am required to take, my teaching-english-curriculum class I call it, has refreshed alot of knowledge in my mind. The varied ways in which clauses can be structured, the beauty of simple rhymes! I am rambling here!
Anyway, here's to posting on a nearly-defunct-but-not-anymore journal.
Anyway, here's to posting on a nearly-defunct-but-not-anymore journal.
