A rainy day with no where to go - no shops open that I know of, and no tourist sights to see due to the cyclone damage. Another cyclone is beginning to build to the north of us, and we have received the first warning. Do we have enough butane/candles/gas/batteries? Reminder to self: Must find time to do an emergency shop tomorrow.
It must be a day for planning semester 2!! So I have done some. It does give me a sense of satisfaction to have done the programming and a few other administrative tasks. Have been thinking about the logical order to deliver subjects in. I have been delivering subjects each week of the semester to date, but it is looking more and more like having blocks of delivery would be a good idea. I wonder if the students could cope? TNQ TAFE has always had to ocnsider the distance learner, the isolated pockets of learners and the working learner, so delivery has tended to be spaced out to allow people to work around their work and home schedules as well as cope with travelling. Maybe a student survey canvassing their preferences would be a good idea. I will develop something simple to hand out next week. I know from an adult learner's perspective, it is good to allow people time to process information, which is an argument for keeping delivery as it is.
Marking will come next. Students deserve to have feedback asap, and I have a bundle of assignments to go through.
I started this blog so I would have a place to post my thoughts about adult learning. As well as teaching, I work as a TROPIC observer - Teachers Reflecting on Practice in Contexts - a peer observation system for giving Teachers feedback about the flow of a lesson and the microskills used for communication and behaviour management. E-learning and m-learning interest me though I am not very experienced in this area.
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- Susan Hurley-Luke
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