I am proud to announce that I received a HIGH DISTINCTION grade for my USQ Semester 3 course 'Foundations of Numeracy'.
This was a lot of work, the assignment work was to create a wiki on 3 segments of mathematics studies - Operations, Whole Numbers and Fractions. And for this I got 46 out of 50.
In my whole Graduate Diploma this was the only subject I had to sit an exam for, and got 80%. I found it a bit ironic that for the whole of this course I have been able to submit everything online from China, and the one time I needed to show my face I happened to be in Southern Queensland, admittedly not exactly where the USQ campus is, but Southern Queensland nonetheless.
I was on holidays in Australia while completing most of this subject, and on the Gold Coast for the exam. The week the wiki was due my sister and Grandmother had come to visit me and the kids as well, so most of it was done in the late hours of the evening. So with many other distractions this result is particularly pleasing!! Hooray for me!!!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Last prac....
Started my last prac, or internship this week, back in the same class as for my prac in August 2010. Truly in the downhill run now, with just the one course to complete for my Grad Dip!
Monday was mainly observation and just getting to know the kids again, with a little bit of small group teaching in numeracy.
Tuesday we went on an excursion to the 'Children's Technology Workshop' where the kids built bridges reinforcing what they'd done in Science recently on forces. So nice gentle introduction back into school life.
From Wednesday I taught numeracy, and will be teaching this every day, and Science, which although only twice a week I am responsible for the new topic 'Seeing Things'. In their Topic (History / Geography) slot at the moment the class is working on their presentation for their assembly. Each class is responsible for one assembly a year and ours in on my last day of prac. Being Year 6, they are expected to work quite independently on this, and ask for specific assistance with props, costumes or scripting.
It's been nice being back in the class, and I am amazed that the kids have grown so much since the beginning of the school year back in August.
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