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Tag Archives: teaching
Teaching and Trainspotting (Rousse)
The school secretary informed me that my first class as a newly qualified teacher would be mathematics with the fourth years – even though I was completely unqualified to teach this subject at secondary level. When I learnt that my … Continue reading
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Tagged assembly, cessation, classroom, loyalty, mathematics, mentor, music, pupils, remedial, secondary, secretary, smoking, song, soundtrack, teacher, teaching, trainspotting
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A house move to Malaysia and a musty old school (Rousse)
RL and SL and said that they were moving to Kansas, but now their plans had changed. Their new home would be Malaysia. Before they left for Asia, RL recommended me for a teaching post at an Edinburgh private school. … Continue reading
Advice for a NQT? Don’t go into teaching! (Rousse)
I bumped into my school friend KC (wearing a hideous pale blue fake satin 1980s style ballgown) and her daughter K at a service station on the M5. The daughter explained that she had just finished teacher training. She asked … Continue reading
Academic highs and lows (Rousse)
There it was in print: my first co-authored paper with BC. Best of all, when BC read it out loud to me from the pages of the journal it was the sweetest bedtime story ever. Granted it was only a … Continue reading
Poor student performance (Rousse)
P was about to give the students their feedback on their exam performance. Their work was dreadful. Only a couple had managed to complete the paper successfully. P’s concern was that perhaps the paper had been too difficult, and now … Continue reading
Panel deals drugs at University interview (Rousse)
I had been primed to ask the interview candidate about three publications that he used when teaching the Information Delivery module. One of these was co-authored by me, with the candidate himself. This was just one of the strange things … Continue reading
“Innovations” in knowledge management teaching (Rousse)
What great excitement was this? My colleagues had just discovered “knowledge management” (KM) and one was under instruction to develop a series of linked modules on the topic so that all graduates would be well-versed in both KM theory and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1999, colleagues, curriculum, excitement, final year, graduates, innovation, innovations, KM, knowledge management, module, modules, practice, students, teaching, theory
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Academics work through the night to cope with workload (Rousse)
I was both amazed and appalled to discover an office full of colleagues on campus working at 02:00 in the morning. One was just about to pack up and go home to his wife and children, but would only manage … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, chat, children, colleagues, cope, office, research, sleep, students, teaching, wife, workload
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A bread and chocolate breakfast feast (Rousse)
I woke up in a single bed in a luxurious Perth hotel. SC, in the bed to the left of me, was already awake and watching a BBC nature documentary on her iPad. There came a knock on the door … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, bed, bread, breakfast, butler, butlers, Canada, chocolate, colleague, cousin, documentary, father, game, hotel, husband, ice-breaker, internship, iPad, librarians, MacUser, magazine, mother, nature, Nutella, parents, Perth, photograph, snog, statistics, stats, teaching, Toblerone, trolley, undergraduate
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A deal with Oracle goes wrong (Rousse)
X shouted an insult at me as he left campus at 4pm on Friday – just as I was arriving at work to clear my e-mail. He was convinced that I was not doing a proper job of looking after … Continue reading
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Tagged accusation, campus, deal, donate, drink, e-mail, fail, Imperial, Oracle, PhD, research, smart, staff, strangers, students, supervisor, teaching, TPR, university, work, wrong
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