Tuesday 20th.

Today, being Tuesday was a very big day for me, i've got Workplace Maths in the morning, then Multimedia after the recess break, then duty for 30 min of lunch in the cafeteria, then another lesson of Workplace Maths, and then finally Cisco, before home time.

I'm writing this during the cisco class and my brain has turned to mush, it's been a

really

long day.

Workplace Maths - Today i worte notes about Johns teaching style and how he keeps the class on task, the main things i noticed were his change of activities regularly, and just having a good ability to check on each of the students enough to keep them on task and not talking to each other.

After about 10 min, i started mimicing his behaviour and going round the room check on the students, which helped in reinforcing that "on task" attitude that the class had. I was able to help about 6 students with questions, and noted that the most dificult problem that faces the students was understanding contor lines on a map (which it appears that none of them had done), but other than that the worked really well, on a worksheet that was, what john believes, is above their level of skill.

Multimedia - This class ran in exaclty the same way as the first time i ran it, i gave them 45min on their excel and photoshop activities, and then 35min to continue with the PowerPoint activity i started with them "Creating a PowerPoint presentation about yourself" including 2 new skills, Slide Transitions, and Object Animation.

Workplace Maths - This lesson the students were in a computer lab working on a poster collecting and display a heap of maths information "Airline prices vs Distance Travelled", i spent most of the class either monitoring their work, or helping 1 or 2 with basic computing skills, (creating a graph from data).

CISCO - The cisco class basically runs itself, the students have online worksheets to continue with and they just do that.

Time to go

See ya

Adam