Since our last episode, Helen has been hard at work. Preparing herself for the assessments that are coming up, Prime opportunity to both impress and teach the tutors.
May 2nd 2011: Term two commences,
A bright and sunny morning awakens dear Helen, and she rises full of hopes and desires for the day. Happily going about her morning routine, feeding triffids, and categorising her Star Trek collection in chronological order, She can barely contain her excitement for the days class. See Mondays are Media Days, and today she has Glen. The foreign tutor from somewhere in the Waikato. He has a gallery and an agency, and Helen desperately wants to impress him in hopes of future employment. So off she goes, into the sunrise to begin the day.
As the students trickle into the class, Helen Rushes to make it on time, Darned Traffic!. She makes it in by the skin of her nose as her dear husband would say. She sits down and logs on, ready for GLENN to begin class.
Today the students are asked to show GLENN where they are up to in their Assessments. Helen readily shows him her online presentation and after some constructive criticism, he moves on. Helen leaves the days class disgruntled that she was not given even the slightest chance to participate in group discussions. There was so much the others needed to know and only her to teach them!!!.
What will Helen to for the rest of the week?, Surely it can’t all be checkpoints and one-on-one time! How will she cope?,
Suddenly she remembers to her great horror, That tomorrow is the photography Hand-In day, and that in turn meant very little class time. Oh What a Dreadful week this is turning out to be.
Will it get better for dear Helen? Or will she be driven to take a personal day. Something she never does out of fear of missing a vital teaching opportunity….
TBC..