Thursday, 28th of September, 2006
7:43 am on the 29th of September, 2006Thursday is the busy day, I started off with a new topic for my third year graphics class - sections. Using Inventor I showed them an object that another teacher had dreamed up - hte orthographic views wouldn’t tell you exactly what the object looked like in real life and were slightly ambiguous which led nicely to showing the usefulness of sectioned drawings. A lot of them seemed to grasp it straight away but others seem like they need more time to understand what the different orthographic view represent in the first place - before any cuts.
I took a fourth year class on the same topic later in the day, this is a really good class and they got the hang of it straight away, most anyway.
I also had a nice 2nd year class, this is the class that had been getting cover material who I took through marking out their wood last week, now that their teacher is back he’s taken them on to the next stage - actually cutting it out.
Also had PCS where I started them on the mirror frame, the sheets are for the wrong level though and don’t show the correct joint so I had to change what Iwas saying very quickly and then try to get them back to the right thing. This was a poor lesson in terms of teaching, I really should have prepared better but I hadn’t actually expected to be in with them today.
Finished off the day with 1st years, they’re a nice crowd and I can get on with them really well. In my last placement the PT said that when you first start teaching the seniors are pretty daunting and the first years are great, but once you;’ve seen them grow up over the 4/5/6 years then you can still get on with them in the much the same way you did when they were first years. I hope this is true.
