This is Omar’s blog

Take the hat and go and stand in the corner. NOW.

Don’t we? Sometimes it feels like the world is falling. Dramatic perhaps; but then we are when we’re stressed. It doesn’t feel like we will but we do. We get by and we keep on moving. My problem is, i’m too critical of myself and what i do.

[One thing that i cannot stress enough is that children need to be able given real life examples of abstract concepts otherwise it won't happen - trust me on this. This is number one from the book of - i so should have realised that before i planned the lesson]

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I know none of you watch it. However; episode 17 was simply amazing.

I still can’t stop playing the Fray.

Had my final observation today from my Uni tutor at least. It was ok, a few things that i’d do differently. Mostly though they are to do with choices i made and so i know that as i get more experience will get better.

I bought them here. I also got a handwritten note on a postcard too. Ozzm.

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See, i think i like point and shoot more. Because i just want to do that. It’s simpler, easier, more spontaneous. I like taking photos but i don’t like asking people if i can take their photos.

Anyway.

http://www.wekillyou.net/shop/pins.jpg x 9.

Life’s too short.
Money is. I don’t know what it is but i don’t like it. Don’t like the way it is treated and how it affects us. How it does in ways it shouldn’t. It complicates thing unnecessarily.
Keep it simple eh?

I don’t know why i’ve picked up on the title; i say it and i immediately get this image of psychiatrist in my head. Talking about your feelings is a funny thing. Because i find it difficult to pin it down, i’m not deliberately being obtuse (do i mean that?). Say something makes you anxious, you find it difficult to do. It’s something you do all the time in a different context, just now you can’t. Now; consider how you feel when you’re doing that. Can you do it?

Absolutely shattered. It’s hit me this evening. I sat down and 45 minutes disappeared. Lesson planning is time consuming, my pdp, assessment mechanisms, ess, observations have fallen by the wayside. If i had the time to do them, i would. If i felt they were more then simply jumping through hoops (not true of all of them), i’d do them. It just feels, our time could and should be used in a more productive manner. It’s too late to change it though, still.

This week has been hard - really hard. Getting up each morning has been hard, from a motivational point of view. Lesson planning is just plain time consuming. Today was a good though on the whole. I taught history (the intro just didn’t captivate them, i need to consider how to make what i did more interesting. They loved the role play. Now i’m thinking they should have been combined. Perhaps. I’m toying with the idea of pretending to be a Victorian teacher next week… ), maths (a few just didn’t get the method, it’s a funny feelings staring at a whiteboard desperately trying to think of new way to explain something), science (could have been better i think, preparation was key), games (i can’t play football, they enjoyed it though).

When i relax i really enjoy teaching (whether when i do that i am better teacher is open to debate). Partly down to planning, partly to being confident in my own abilities.

Dear man in the middle lane,

The nearside lane is empty you silly nob and the nearest lorry is a mile further down the motorway.

From Omar

Ps. You’re a nob nob nob.