Friday was the last day of TEFL classes. Five weeks down, just as promised. Well, not exactly. You see, they realize that the workload in that five weeks is crazy, so they give additional time for some of the work. I have two research papers, a cultural project and a huge collaborative project to work on. they generously give us all month to do these things. The problem is, I have another tough class starting on the 23rd, so I only have a week to get as much of this stuff done as I can.
Today I went to school for a meeting with my collaborators on the collaborative project. One of them didn’t show up, the other had nothing done. I had my syllabus all typed up and ready to fill in with their lesson plans. No dice.
I don’t know why this was set up as a collaborative project, those things are nothing but a pain in the butt. I’ll probably NEVER collaborate on something like that in real life. I set a “due date” of Thursday for the lesson plans, let’s see if they listen to me. If not… Well, I can always turn in the collaborative project missing a name or two, right? Since it’s 50% of their grade, they ought to be motivated. OK, so I’m a slave-driving taskmaster. I can live with that.
Still, the six-hour-a-day classes are over, and things are on the downhill slope now. I’ve got a few more hurdles to get through this summer, and you’ll be hearing about them shortly!
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July 16th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
See?…And you thought that you could not handle a bunch of five-year olds!
They will be a lot easier than the collaborative project believe me!
You can actually get five year old children to do things, because they are motivated to learn!