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October 29th, 2007 by reimer
So I had just finished writing a pretty substantial reflection for my first day of my week long visit, and I don`t know if it is my shitty Telus connection or this blog site….but I lost it so here I am again starting over. Man that kind of stuff just drives me nucking futz (Tom Bone, 2007). well that`s it! I`m done with this for the evening and will continue tomorrow…I`m back because it just did it again, at least I have a draft to go back to this time, something about upgrading, cleaning or fixing the Edublog site? make up your mind and do your maintenance when I`m not on-line, Thanks.
I spent the day in the woodshop with four blocks of woodwork and four totally different dynamics. The first class was a grade 10 wood and they are about mid-way through a small side table. The process is good with many different machining and joinery concepts. The grade 10`s are quite easy to manage, direct and keep busy, this class was very enjoyable. The next class was a repeat of the first, grade 10 wood again and about the same progress on the projects. There is a lot of demo and show and tell as the majority of these kids have no prior experience with woodworking, but again my sponsor teacher has a set plan developed over the years and this works very well. the next block was grade 12 woodwork and the project is self selected, with prior approval, and the processes fro each are varied. This class was much more challenging as there is a great range of student motivation within the class. It is very hard to motivate some students to ’get to work’, while others are chomping at the bit to get going. This was very educational from my perspective as this will be the norm with all senior classes, i`m sure. The last block was grade 11 wood and slightly more structured than the grade 12`s but still a far cry from the grade 10`s. It`s funny, a good friend of mine, more of a mentor, once told me that teaching middle school tech classes was some of the best experiences he had. Judging from the difference in attitudes from the different age groups I saw today, perhaps this is what he was referring to. All in all, I`m liking it very much, there was talk today about me taking on a class and a class project in wood during my practicum time which suits me just fine. Mid-way through the week and I think I`ve made a good choice for the future. Listen to me, after a couple of days…..time will be the ultimate teller of stories.
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