Learning Journal

The FE sector is quite disorganised, in my opinion, on Tuesday evening a headmaster from a south Birmingham school rang me up to tell me that I had an interview on Friday, and please could I prepare a 20 minute lesson on key assumptions in psychology for a class of 'twelve to fifteen students'. How thorough.
Anyhow, I've done my best with it, and a Magnum Opus of 'What do you think about Freud' has resulted. It's better than the deal my mom got - she is going down to London tomorrow for an interview she's only known about for a week, to teach 50 minutes of physics. The amount she has to teach she'll usually cover over a number of weeks, so she's panicking.
Compared to her, I'm more picnicking.
A problem with this course, I feel, is that just as we need the chance to wind down from teaching, with our hours mostly done and our projects all due in, the college ramps up its final blitz towards the exam. With the revision classes now being taught, I'm up to 8 hours a week of teaching, with 7 hours of this original lesson that I have to plan for painstakingly. And then I have to go home and attempt to write 2,500 word essays. Hurrah!