Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Procrastination.. the (well, ONE of the) banes of my existence!
Tuesdays are bad that way because i only have 1 lecutre on from 5pm-7pm, and that leaves me the rest of the day to do assignments! (riiight)
After that theres small group so that's always a positive thing!
I am really getting embarrassed here! there are so many cool blogs out there, and then there's mine, still with the generic colour scheme. but i hereby do swear that this shall change in the holidays! even if i have to go through every tutorial i can find on html! :)
Todays Rant:
(Rant)
Thinking about Uni yesterday, i am still unimpressed by the education department. i mean seriously, all they do is spew rhetoric at us, and theories galore. they make us do assignments and case studies into individuals and tell us all about Piaget and Vygotsky et al... But hardly any practical experience.
Im doing Music Teaching (with History as a 2nd teaching area) and yet we still have to go through classes on ESL. fair enough there may be some ESL students in a future music class, but really, as long as they are willing to sing, they can learn how to be good musicians. the thought processes have almost nothing to do with the language used.
Thats what we have to base our next ESL assignment (3,000 words) on, we have to project what we've learned from the course onto our future classes, and write a plan of how we would teach our subject to accomodate an ESL student. A music class? i would teach exactly the same. maybe spend a bit more time with an individual after or before class to ensure they got it, but thats about it!
aaaannyhoo.. thats enough for now (/rant)
To Summarise, Education at UQ SUXX0R. :) especially for future music teachers... ah well.. only 2 and a half years to go!
Thats all for right now! News at 8.
Tuesdays are bad that way because i only have 1 lecutre on from 5pm-7pm, and that leaves me the rest of the day to do assignments! (riiight)
After that theres small group so that's always a positive thing!
I am really getting embarrassed here! there are so many cool blogs out there, and then there's mine, still with the generic colour scheme. but i hereby do swear that this shall change in the holidays! even if i have to go through every tutorial i can find on html! :)
Todays Rant:
(Rant)
Thinking about Uni yesterday, i am still unimpressed by the education department. i mean seriously, all they do is spew rhetoric at us, and theories galore. they make us do assignments and case studies into individuals and tell us all about Piaget and Vygotsky et al... But hardly any practical experience.
Im doing Music Teaching (with History as a 2nd teaching area) and yet we still have to go through classes on ESL. fair enough there may be some ESL students in a future music class, but really, as long as they are willing to sing, they can learn how to be good musicians. the thought processes have almost nothing to do with the language used.
Thats what we have to base our next ESL assignment (3,000 words) on, we have to project what we've learned from the course onto our future classes, and write a plan of how we would teach our subject to accomodate an ESL student. A music class? i would teach exactly the same. maybe spend a bit more time with an individual after or before class to ensure they got it, but thats about it!
aaaannyhoo.. thats enough for now (/rant)
To Summarise, Education at UQ SUXX0R. :) especially for future music teachers... ah well.. only 2 and a half years to go!
Thats all for right now! News at 8.
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