This could be the straw that broke the camel’s back

Forgive me for digressing from the usual theme of my posts but I have to get something off my chest.

Last night I think I may have wasted 3 hours of my life… and unfortunately I’m probably going to waste another 3 hours every week for the next 11 weeks!

How? I have been teaching at the local college for the last 4 or 5 years (can’t remember exactly). I got involved in teaching as a way of passing on the knowledge I’ve gained in 21 odd years in graphic design. Our ‘hopelessly out of touch’ Government decided that all non-qualified teachers have to do a PTLLS* course by 2010 or give up teaching.

This course is supposed to prepare us to teach!!!!! From what I saw last night I’m not sure I want to teach anymore. No wonder our kids are leaving places that are meant to prepare them for a career with no idea of what they’re doing…

I don’t want to be turned into an academic. I don’t want to waste precious hours of my life filling out paperwork in triplicate. I just want to share my knowledge to help prepare people to work in the graphic design industry. I don’t want to think until my head feels like it’s going to burst.

At the moment I’m not sure I’m going to see this course through. I’m not a quitter, I love learning, my head is full of ‘stuff’ that I’ve accumulated over the years but this just seems so far removed from what I do and how I do it. I’m not perfect and I’m not the best teacher in the world but I get the result I set out to achieve.

OK so rants over, I’ll get back to some real work.
Till next time
’B’s Mum

*PTLLS – Preparation to Teach in the Life Long Sector