An all-nighter, and not the fun coding type

This is night #1 of “oh shit, my Uni work has to be in NEXT TUESDAY? Not a week on Tuesday?”

You see, for the past eight months I’ve been teaching IT to kids. This involves quite a lot of paper as I have to meticulously plan everything - I have yet to acquire the ninja skills required to simply turn up and go “right then, today we are …”.

It’s the worksheets that do me in. 30 kids in the room, I’ve made a two page worksheet for them. That’s 60 bits of paper to hand out and then take back in.

Here is the current state of my front room after sorting through this shite. The piles mean things, they’re important. A lot of this stuff is evidence that I can teach kids properly. It all has to be sorted, collated and put together into one coherent folder that can be assessed. Then I have to invent a reference system so I can say “ah yes, I meet standard 3.2.1 because lesson plan for class 7S3 - 3/2/2007, Period 1 says so”.

Obviously I’ve not just started to do that now. No, this is the finishing off - checking that if I taught something on the 8/3/2007 at 10:45 there really is some paperwork to back that up. No, not the 8/3/2006 at 10:45, nor the 9/3/2007.

Yes, I am finding lots of typos that I never noticed before. Head, this is Mr Wall, get acquainted

Not to worry, I’ll run out of A4 paper soon and my toner’s going.

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Tags: Boredom, Teaching, University