So I'm on this Young Learners course now. It's paid for by my generous and excellent bosses, and it's all friendly and well-run, but I'm a bit daunted at the prospect of teaching 22 hours and doing loads of "homework" too. It'll be useful as fuck, and probably a lot of fun with my fellow teachers, but I'm still a bit freaked out at this term's workload. Sometimes I just want to shout "Help! I'm new! I can't do 20 things at once yet! Leave me alone!". And the rest of the time I'm sort of on top of it, so we'll see how it goes.
There is one excellent thing about the course, though, and that's its website. It's just really nicely organised, and has everything there, and encourages discussion, and the design is kind of tactile, and really nice and intuitive. It's a lovely website, and it's the kind of thing I'd love to be able to use for the teen classes. A blog, a wiki, an interactive homework record site: these are the reasons I wish I learned computer science. It'll get easier to develop these things, I'm sure, and (at the risk of sounding like a Sci-Fi fan) I wouldn't want to be teaching in the 21st century without them. Takes a bit of work, is all.
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Is that "Young" as in you're young, or is it to learn about teaching young people?
By doing more than we can, we learn, right?
Btw, it's obvious that I'm catching up here. Beautiful that you found the TWW I Don't Like Mondays, so beautiful, and guess what iTunes has automatically followed it with: Radiohead! Woo! I'vw got the R+J one right now, which is for me an all-time great song, though the name escapes me right now (no need to look it up for you right?).
Hang on, Talk Show Host right?
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