foolfillment: the blog

First two periods off - time to get things sorted for crit (I think they are now) and some wrangling over how you draw sections in thirs angle projection - there were three of us totally confused for a while, all thinking slightly different things. All sorted now though apart from one little thing with Inventor but that can be sorted I’m sure.
First class was the 3rd year GC class, had a little chat with them about sectioning objects. As usual some of them really know what it’s all about, most of the rest know the ir stuff too but aren’t as forthcomng with answers. Let them continue with their drawings and discovered one pupils who really has not got the hang of it at all - I tried to explain the drawing by taking it back to just an ordinary orthographic before any cuts have been made, this didn’t work, so I simplified it a little more, this didn’t work. In the end I went right back to the stage of drawing cubes and steps from different angles and built it up with them. Unfortunately I just know that next time they come they’ll not be able to remember how to do the drawing. It’s is made worse because of the 3 periods a week this pupil misses 1 for some out of school activity and often isn’t in for both the other 2 periods.

1st year after that, I really enjoy this class, they are really good fun to teach. Making a trowel (the one that is everywhere, I’m sure you know the one) at the moment so they are pretty excited to be in the workshop. I’ve been laying it on thick about how they have to be safe otherwise they’ll end up losing fingers or arms or eyes.

After lunch I got to take a second year class through the start of a model - marking out a through housing joint. This was left up to me by the PT and I’m really glad he did - I’ve been settling into taking a back seat in too many classes and need to get back ito gear with actually teaching them - just me and them. It was a pretty tough challenge - a full class of 20 kids in a tiny workshop just after lunch. Getting their attention and explaining everything I needed was difficult but on the whole this class are pretty good so I think I coped fairly well.

Last period was S5/6 PCS, slowly getting along with the mirror frame model.

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