Tuesday, 3rd of October, 2006
6:22 pm on the 3rd of October, 20062nd year first, I didn’t do much. This isn’t an exciting class for a student to teach - they just get on with things. Would be a dream class if theyr were my own though.
then 5th year for two periods of PCS. This class aren’t really a bad lot but they take some getting going. There’s been a bit of a change over the time I’ve been there, earlier there were kids who went through loads of wood because they were too hasty, and aggressive with it and didn’t really care - this caused a fair bit of disruption but now those ones just come in and sit doing next to nothing - this doesn’t bother me, they aren’t causing any harm, they are going to be leaving after Christmas and don’t want to be there. If this was my own class I would maybe be trying to gee them on a bit - it is pretty possible fomr them to have completed some of the models befre they leave and at least that way they get some credit for having been in the class, this is more than can be said for some other subjects they will be in.
3rd year - the class who were hard work yesterday - for a KU period next up. Wrapping up the idea of 5th-95the percentiles. While the terminology won’t have stuck with most of them they seem to have grasped the idea of designing for either tall or short people and why.
4th year last period. This worried me a lot. This is the class I have for my crit. I felt like I hardly knew them, today they weren’t the class I have been in with, it was as though they’d been replaced by noisier, more aggresive, less able kids who wouldn’t think twice about wrecking a crit if they knew it was going on. Is this just nerves or are they really behaving differently? They weren’t behaving as well as usual anyway because three of tehm have been promised referrals and this is mighty unusual. Is it just a Tuesday afternoon thing though as their usual teacher seemed to be telling me. I’m concerned that I won’t be able to teach the lesson I want to. We’ll see - I’ve got until Thursday to get myself in order.
