***Halloween Weekend chat thread 31st October 2009***

ghostmadlittlemiss

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

yes, Buffy teaches in a school - I teach adults in adult learning and Lou teaches adults in an FE college (pretty sure that's correct Lou? )

I'm only in my second year of teaching and it's driving me round the bend already - and I don't do it full time!

The paperwork is a nightmare - there is just so much of it, you wouldn't believe it. Initial assessment, individual learning records, enrolment forms, learner agreements, evidence of using initial assessments, ensuring embedding of literacy, numeracy and ICT (and evidencing it), recording achievement (RARPA), setting of goals and targets and recording the achievement of these, varied activities to accommodate all learning styles, lesson plans, schemes of work, end of course evaluation, learning aims and objectives, evidence of raising health and safety and safeguarding, induction materials such as learner handbooks and going through various sections in that, personal learning records.......

oh, and then each week handouts which depending on the course you can perhaps lift from somewhere but if you have devised the course from scratch (all mine are like that) you'll need to prepare print and copy all the handouts. After the session, there is lesson plan evaluation to write up, tutor comments to add to personal learning records and for me, ingredients to buy.

Oh...........and teach them at some point in amongst that lot :rotfl:

I started off thinking £18 per hour for being part qualified :T I then realised that the 45 minutes early I get there to set up and the 15 minutes I stay behind to wipe down/ensure stuff is put away, shut off the gas, get rid of the rubbish - I don't get paid for. The planning of the course, the production of the paperwork and all the handouts - probably an hour a week - I don't get paid for. The time in the supermarket buying my set of ingredients - I don't get paid for. Any recipes I want to try out for timings - I don't get paid for. I worked it out recently to be more like £7 p/h.

Still keen? :rotfl::D

I will say, the best bit is when they leave class having successfully completed their dishes or say thankyou because they've enjoyed the session or course - it is a great feeling :T

You've not put me off completely, just mostly. :rotfl: I need to take some time to think about it properly anyway. I'm just gathering opinions for now.
Kayleigh

Burlesque_Babe

how about doing some voluntary tutor work in a literacy or numeracy class at an adult learning centre? You'll get a feel for a classroom environment.

I know people often say to go for a teaching assistant job, but there's a qualification attached to that now and most places want you to have it first.

Burlesque_Babe

LouiseJ wrote: »

BB that is alot of prep work my friend:eek:

I know........sob.......I have everything for tomorrow and tuesday night ready, copied and inthe register folder. I have ingredients laid out for tomorrow night. All ready to grab when I finish at the office.

Then from next week, it's a re-run of the course I did before half term and I spent a day pulling it all back together again. I then have to do a 5 week course from scratch - another whole day I guess (after work or not when I'm teaching this week!) and it starts a week on Tuesday.

I will say that if you go into full time school teaching, the salary is good - newly qualified is 20k and so will be a bit more by the time you start. There's money available - up to 9k - depending on what you will be teaching which you don't pay back - golden handshake type stuff and yes, the holidays are good, although you'll never get a cheap break away because all the kids are on holiday too - 13 year being with a teacher taught me that - that's one of the few advantages of sessional teaching, more flexibility for cheap trips abroad!

ghostmadlittlemiss

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

how about doing some voluntary tutor work in a literacy or numeracy class at an adult learning centre? You'll get a feel for a classroom environment.

I know people often say to go for a teaching assistant job, but there's a qualification attached to that now and most places want you to have it first.

I'm thinking of doing that. It'll be good experience anyway and I think I need more structure to my days and a sense that I've achieved something with my time, rather than sat around watching Scrubs on Youtube and playing Farmville (like I'm doing now).
Kayleigh

Burlesque_Babe

ghostmadlittlemiss wrote: »

playing Farmville (like I'm doing now).
Kayleigh

and what's wrong with that? :rotfl:(have you seen some of the halloween ones they are using during load up - surely they can't be real farms!!!)

........goes off to check if any trees need harvesting.......

edit: oooh, I have potatoes, cotton, coffee and ghost chillies to harvest

elfen

Ha ha! I am still the Queen of Crackling!

ghostmadlittlemiss

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

and what's wrong with that? :rotfl:(have you seen some of the halloween ones they are using during load up - surely they can't be real farms!!!)

........goes off to check if any trees need harvesting.......

edit: oooh, I have potatoes, cotton, coffee and ghost chillies to harvest

Wow, you're a few levels up from me then, out of that lot I can only grow cotton. Yeah, I've been looking at those farms all day thinking, "What? How do they get them all those colours?"
Kayleigh
PS I just got the cat! :j :rotfl:

Burlesque_Babe

ghostmadlittlemiss wrote: »

Wow, you're a few levels up from me then, out of that lot I can only grow cotton. Yeah, I've been looking at those farms all day thinking, "What? How do they get them all those colours?"

Level 27..... I've been playing for months.........cough.......honest ..:o :whistle: Add me as a friend if you like, we can be neighbours and I can send you purple hay and rabbit topiary :rotfl:

ghostmadlittlemiss wrote:

PS I just got the cat! :j :rotfl:

awwwww........name? pics?

ghostmadlittlemiss

Burlesque_Babe wrote: »

Level 27..... I've been playing for months.........cough.......honest ..:o :whistle: Add me as a friend if you like, we can be neighbours and I can send you purple hay and rabbit topiary :rotfl:


awwwww........name? pics?

I didn't know you could name animals. Have I got you on FB already? I don't know. :rotfl:
Kayleigh

Burlesque_Babe

no - we're not friends. If you are friends with bunny, jacs, toto, snaggles, bank of slate, squizz, buffy, I_A, Maz, ginger ste (and quite a few others!!!), look for the black and white profile pic with an irish sounding surname beginning with 'F'

ooooooh, I thought you had a real cat - I've just realised it is a Farmville one? :doh: Exciting - not seen them yet!