Run Over by a Training Course
Oct. 15th, 2001 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterSchoolwork continues to annoy me. This is my last semester here at SMSU, and I'm busier than a one-armed paperhanger. All of my current four classes demand collaborative final projects (heck, one of them is a final project), and I've got two part-time jobs.
For one of those final courses, I and two classmates have to teach a two-hour training course in "web images" toward the end of the semester, and we have to spend most of our time getting ready for it. It's been one long frustration from beginning (what the heck is a "web image," anyway?) to end, as we have to do all this little piddly penny-ante documentation up, involving such wonderful little creative terms as "needs assessment" or "chunking." Yay. It keeps seeming like so much of it is busywork, designed to fill out a semester long class that isn't teaching very much.
Today, I learned that one of the trainees...is actually a training course instructor herself, and she "just wants to see how we teach the course." Which is a little frustrating when we've only got about four students total, and we need to find out what our trainees want and tailor the course to them--and not only that, it makes me feel like we're going to be graded by one of our trainees, and that's just wrong.
I can't help but feel a little inadequate to this semester. I keep feeling like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm relying on my teammates too much--and that's not fair to them. I have to carry my share of the load--but how can I when I'm not even sure what the load is?
I'll get through this somehow, I just know I will.
For one of those final courses, I and two classmates have to teach a two-hour training course in "web images" toward the end of the semester, and we have to spend most of our time getting ready for it. It's been one long frustration from beginning (what the heck is a "web image," anyway?) to end, as we have to do all this little piddly penny-ante documentation up, involving such wonderful little creative terms as "needs assessment" or "chunking." Yay. It keeps seeming like so much of it is busywork, designed to fill out a semester long class that isn't teaching very much.
Today, I learned that one of the trainees...is actually a training course instructor herself, and she "just wants to see how we teach the course." Which is a little frustrating when we've only got about four students total, and we need to find out what our trainees want and tailor the course to them--and not only that, it makes me feel like we're going to be graded by one of our trainees, and that's just wrong.
I can't help but feel a little inadequate to this semester. I keep feeling like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm relying on my teammates too much--and that's not fair to them. I have to carry my share of the load--but how can I when I'm not even sure what the load is?
I'll get through this somehow, I just know I will.
