Fish Bowl!

So I did my first Fish Bowl lesson.  I think all of us that has done this can agree with me the set of mixed emotions is as varied as the fish in the sea.  Everything from nerves, tears, sweat, fear, anticipation, excitement and exhilaration.  For some it was a pure thrill and for others ... torture?

Where ever someone rated themselves on this emotional scale, one thing was noticible through out the building - adrenaline!

And in the moments or even days after (depending on your personal style of course) REFLECTION....
that is the name of the game.

What worked; what did not fly and why not; and on and on we evaluate ourselves and our peers.

Let's just keep our eye on the ball.  Teaching is for learning; even though we are learning to teach.

Instructions to teachers

Instructions to teachers in 1872
....This is just too good not to post.

Source:  http://wced.pgwc.gov.za/ministry/speeches/DeVilliersGraaffHighSchoo-140th-anniversary.html

These instructions include:

1. Teachers will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trim wicks each day.
   
   
2. Each teacher will bring a scuttle of coal and a bucket of water for the day's use.
   
   
3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs for the individual tastes of children.
   
   
4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
   
   
5. After ten hours in school, the teacher should spend the remaining time reading the bible or other good books.
   
   
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in other unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
   
   
7. Every teacher should lay aside from his pay a goodly sum for his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society.
   
   
8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents a pool or public hall, or gets shaved in a barber shop will give good reason for suspecting his worth, intentions, integrity and honesty.
   
   
9. The teacher who performs his labors faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of 25 cents a week in his pay providing the board of education approves.

#PGCEmix Interview part 3

I think I am ready for my first dry run.....
Testing my questions on classmates.

Watch this space for the results.

Nervous, not so much, just excited to see how it will go.  I also enlisted the services of an classmate to help record the interviews and if I "graduate" to the next phase I will progress to video.  (Taking baby steps here.)

The material on the internet that I worked through were very helpful and there are some great learning opportunities available.  Some sites include support as well.

I did read a bit about the setting up of questions, (open ended, humoristic, content appropriate) and about doing interviews in person or over email or phone.  I think I prefer to do in person interviews, especially because I would like to be able to get to know the people I interview a little better and a phone or email is just too impersonal.  Sure there is some valid reasons for using other options.

About 12 questions - open and closed ended. Tounge in cheek and  tell it as it is. The test will be in how they do with the actual interview, and of course how I put that into writing. 


Will you find it interesting?


http://jonahenry.com/embrace-ignorance/

#PGCEmix - learning to do an interview part 2

Polar bears should always be interviewed in person.



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