Lecturing

Starting my stint as a guest lecturer at one of the advance diploma course ran by RCTC and Ngee Ann Poly. Twice a week, 7 to 10pm after work for 5 weeks. Quite tired by the end of the day but i think so far it has been quite a positive experience.

True that there is a lot of work to be done such as preparing the slides, planning & writing out the assignment, reading up and doing the notes, liasing with the coordinator for print-outs and just last night, i had a teaching observation done by the supervisor of the program. But it has been great learning for me as well and it does broaden my perspective because these are adult learners from different centres and kingergartens.

However, i am having a bit of a trouble balancing the lecturing and my own work in school. I am usually quite tired (now more so than ever) and it really takes great effort to juggling all my responsibilities on top of solving others' problems. I must say though, some colleagues at work (some whom i wouldnt have thought could), has been a great help with supporting the program and kids, and working really well together with me. Was a bit surprised but in some ways, i think we all grow and change. I think HOP being on course has been a great learning experience of some of these other senior teachers. One thing that has been affirmed... some people are just much better at being supervisors than teachers, and vice versa. Well, in any case, i am pretty happy and felt quite supported as a team.

Anyway, lecturing will be done by the 24th when the trainees have to do their assignment presentations. I will not be missing the late nights and preparation work, but i think i will miss the interactions. I am NOT looking forward to making their assignments though. 28 trainees and 2 assignments each. Woah. No joke. I have to go dig out my own training with SIM's Open Uni tutor course which i had to undergo when i got a job helping them to tutor the open Uni's course. It's similar type of standard of marking and it has to be really detailed.

In the mean time, i will just try to cope for the next 3 weeks and i still have 2 more lectures to prepare before i am done. Sigh...