#promising!

[dearmrsawyer]

i’ve just started a short professional development course on teaching/training and i’ve been looking forward to it alllllll year because its one of the areas i most want to pick up skills!!! its only a few weeks so i know it’ll be fairly general, but i’m still hoping it’ll be valuable for me. 

i obviously do a lot of one-on-one with students when they come in needing help. based on my own opinion/experiences the level of success in those interactions is usually dependent upon the student’s willingness to understand/learn. sometimes students want a solve but aren’t really invested in how to carry that skill forward, so i can see them disengage when they realise i’m not simply giving them the answer lol. but maybe there is more i can do on my end in those situations! i’ve never learned how to give instruction so i’m just going off my instincts, and building on the experiences i’ve had as time goes on. 

but my expectation is really that this course will help in group environments. sometimes i conduct little skill sessions in classes and in those cases i’m talking to 10-30 people. i don’t have any knowledge to base my ‘techniques’ on, i’m typically allotted about 30 minutes and just bring handouts/speak/take questions for the time i’ve got. i’m positive there’s a way to make those sessions more fruitful, even if i’ve only got a limited amount of time. eventually i’d like to have sessions based in the library itself. this is entirely dependent upon a) the teachers allowing me the time, b) getting my hands on any resources i might need and, most importantly, c) having the time to design the sessions. i... don’t anticipate c happening in the near future so this is a distant goal but i think it would be soooo beneficial to the students, and also save myself time in the long term. 

like i said, this course is probably just going to be introductory theory but i hope it’ll at least give me something to structure future instruction around, i’ll at least know what boxes i need to tick, and i can self-evaluate against actual criteria and improve. 

[laryna6]

Okay, here’s something that might look good at the beginning:

“Something’s wrong with the kids.”

Takeo’s announcement, though quiet, succeeded in freezing the rest of the household in their tracks. Seira paused in the middle of picking up a plate, and Regis in the midst of getting up.Tao and M-21 had been doing the same as the young noble, except they froze in a somewhat awkward hunched-over position. Frankenstein went abnormally still, and He stopped mid-drink, holding a teacup halfway to his mouth.

The air seemed to hum with tension as Frankenstein asked, a pleasant smile on his face that had chills going down the Trio’s spines and the nobles straightening up, “What do you mean, Takeo? They did not seem ill on their last visit with Master.”

And he would know, went unsaid and heard loud and clear. There was no way Frankenstein would let sick humans anywhere near his Master.

Takeo was glad he was still sitting down. It made it easier for him to stare straight ahead and give his report. “When we returned a week ago, I noticed they seemed abnormally tired during recess. Shinwoo sleeping in class is normal, but I observed Yuna and Suyi also napping during my rounds. Ikhan drifted off more than once as well. Two days later, Yuna fell asleep standing up in the hallway. Suyi pulled her out of the way of getting knocked over. She woke up fifteen minutes later. All of the children have been showing symptoms of exhaustion. Shinwoo mentioned during lunch that he was cutting back on training. Suyi indicated that she was trying to lighten her own schedule. Yuna and Ikhan were both asleep during the conversation. Shinwoo informed them of the topic after the bell woke them up.” He hesitated, taking a deep breath before finishing, “Ikhan has also not had his computer in class from the moment I noticed something wrong until the present. Tao, when’s the last time you and Ikhan talked online?”

Tao paled. Okay, yes, something was definitely wrong.

(What do you think? Too sudden? Too dialogue heavy? Wrong person bringing up the issue? This is a first draft, so it’s subject to change.)

I don’t think Takeo is a bad option for bringing up the issue - he’s the quiet one, and as a sniper he’d be a trained observer. Tao would be more likely to start a conversation with the kids than observe them having a conversation.

I don’t think it’s dialogue heavy: you have lots of description of what’s going on with the people and motions - a weakness of mine, I need to work on having more than just the convo going on during convos.

[bleedingiba]

0 days without bitching about 911 good god i need a priest who can exorcize the hiperfixation out of me before i become the joker over a stupid tv show

[ahoneesan]

that said i am enjoying the tv show so far. fun to see not just any show but a star war thats like yeah cops are either lazy and cruel or active and stupid and when they come to your town the way to deal with them is hook a line to their squad car so when they try to run away with their tails between their legs the wire catches and they whip around and explode

[reitziluz]

a combination of actually eating enough and taking the time to squeeze the anxiety out of my flesh every day has banished the remains of my long struggle with insomnia.

the downside is that i'm now dead tired because having some Real Rest seems to have kickstarted intense repair of the accumulated stress damage in my body.

this is a vastly preferable kind of tired tho.

[chinchillasorchildren]

Films of 2021: Prayers for the Stolen (dir. Tatiana Huezo)

Grade: B

[divalectics]

‪Gonna watch a movie I’ve somehow missed: The Crow (1994)‬