Thursday, 2 October 2014

Blown away - stick this in your pipe

Domestic issue with my son and a breakfast disagreement has my mood carried into the day (as well as a bruised hand due the hole I punched in a wall) including the meeting with iLeader. Suddenly micro-managing lesson plans after wasting my time in August & September? Are you totally off your heads?

Could not write a more farcical requirement, given the utter shambles of a job I have been expected to try & do the last two months. Now we want to have everything written down in advance, with timings & materials translated a month in advance? Stroll on - as if your lot take ANY notice of what I share in terms of photos, recordings, material, feedback (giving up on Edmodo), ideas (ditto Google Drive), messages (Line/Messenger). Breath-taking chutzpah.

But lo, a little later, when my classroom role is uninfected with bloody sports day practice, aerobics for MTV, drumming for the deaf, a required lesson plan or anything specially prepared...

3 songs with the left-hand tiddlers
They sang totally without me
CD player set very low volume, me in front prompting
 Allan & K2 totally blown away!

And blown away why? Any chance the little bit of learning they do with me goes in better/deeper because of the way I make it work for them - and the fact they can do it, like doing it, do it again? 

To be totally honest, this minor miracle of memory from the 3/4 year-olds made me feel 20 feet tall, as we have not been able to do anything for weeks. Just imagine what an uninterrupted charge of English could have achieved? Could be doing Macbeth by now...

Hand still hurts, wall still has a hole in it. Pity any of the hierarchy or my wife couldn't have witnessed this either. 

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