ERO are coming to my school this coming week. I was pretty much fine about it, as well, they were probably not going to be seeing any of my classes in particular, they were more likely to focus on PRT2s as the ministry just released a report about them.
But, apparently the team told the school they want to focus and follow a whole department, and the Science Department was the one selected. This means that it is actually quite likely that I will be visited at least 4 times in the next week. FOUR TIMES??? One for each of my classes apparently.
Now, I wouldn't mind too much if they actually stayed and discussed with me how my class went. But they won't. If they have any problems with it they will go to my HOD and if things went well, they will also go to my HOD. So basically I get nothing out of it. I'm kinda freaked out that they will all be people who have been out of the classroom so long that they won't remember what kids are like. That they'll see my kids chatting to one another and be all "UNABLE TO CONTROL THE CLASS!!"
Also, senior reports are due in this week and I am STILL getting over my cold. Yuck!
On the plus side, because ERO are coming and we will be having a whole school assembly, I will only be teaching 2 classes on Monday and one of them is an assessment. Awesome!
Beau has been away in Gisbourne on a Pediatrics in the community Section ( or something) but he came back this weekend for his sister's 30th. He's only been away since last Sunday and he'll be coming back on Friday, but I think I really shouldn't be spending much time with him as he has exams coming up. MANY of them!
I've also semi-committed to do some marking. It is for Y13 stuff tho and I haven't taught Y13 this year so it might be too hard for me.. or something. Anyway it would mean an extra $3000 for 2-3 weeks work, so I probably Will do it. Money is always handy, especially if one is planning on a 2 week holiday in Japan. Plus... Christmas coming up!
I've decided that I will do a Y12 Japanese course through the correspondance school. I have already contacted them about it and found out that I can start even now if I want, and it is $80.
I told a few people about it yesterday andPhreq didn't really get why I was paying for a course, she thought I'd be better to save my money and organise an online penfriend to practise with. I couldn't get it out at the time, but that wouldn't work for me. I have tried learning Thai casually with friends and family but it didn't work. I do know more Thai, but I still have no clue for reading and writing, so with all the support I had with Thai I still wasn't getting the right info.
Also, Japanese, like Thai, is a tonal language (altho I don't know if it is to the same extent that Thai is), I really need to have things I can listen to if I want to speak it at all properly. Not to mention the whole madness that are the Japanese alphabets.
Anyway, I think online penfriends will be a good idea for me when I have some actual vocab to try out, but right now I need the structure and base that a course will give me. Sok said that I just wanted someone to tell me when I was doing well. It is true that I do, but not just for learning Japanese ;)
Posted by giffy at October 10, 2004 01:25 PM | TrackBack