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Apr. 2nd, 2009 01:37 pm8 weeks to go, 8 assignments/exams. That lecture timetable that looked so nice in September (full day Weds, half day Fri, that's it) for this term is, as I suspected, just to give us free days to come in and present things or give antenatal classes or whatever.
I'm glad the year is nearly over. Particularly because module evaluation sessions will be coming up. As the first intake of direct-entry soon to be degreed up midwives, we have quite a bit of influence over things. In particular, the Health Promotion module assignment is completely out of keeping with the actual lecture content. Assignment: lead an antenatal class. Lectures: women's health stuff, cervical/breast cancer stuff, depression, smoking cessation, contraception, domestic violence (which I bunked off, otherwise shouting would have happened and I'd have had to get a bus to Cark) interesting stuff like that. "It's the way it's always been done" has been the answer every time I've made a comment about the assessment. Because that's exactly the way you want your students thinking - not questioning things because it's the way things have always been done...
Annoyingly, it seems as if 20+ hours of "how to use de inturnet" classes didn't work. There are still people having problems with the idea of searching for things. I'm crying inside. Still, my planned evaluation of that part of the research module is still going to be along the lines of "some of us did not need anywhere near that amount of training, please to be checking this for future intakes, some of whom might actually know already how to turn on a computer."
I'm glad the year is nearly over. Particularly because module evaluation sessions will be coming up. As the first intake of direct-entry soon to be degreed up midwives, we have quite a bit of influence over things. In particular, the Health Promotion module assignment is completely out of keeping with the actual lecture content. Assignment: lead an antenatal class. Lectures: women's health stuff, cervical/breast cancer stuff, depression, smoking cessation, contraception, domestic violence (which I bunked off, otherwise shouting would have happened and I'd have had to get a bus to Cark) interesting stuff like that. "It's the way it's always been done" has been the answer every time I've made a comment about the assessment. Because that's exactly the way you want your students thinking - not questioning things because it's the way things have always been done...
Annoyingly, it seems as if 20+ hours of "how to use de inturnet" classes didn't work. There are still people having problems with the idea of searching for things. I'm crying inside. Still, my planned evaluation of that part of the research module is still going to be along the lines of "some of us did not need anywhere near that amount of training, please to be checking this for future intakes, some of whom might actually know already how to turn on a computer."
