Good god ...
Friday, 14 September 2007 22:05![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mysteriousaliwaysCould someone get me a clone or something to do half of the stuff I need to get done? Or one of those time-turners that Hermione had would be useful.
I've just found out from the staff meeting for my evening class that, apparently, new government regulations mean that I have to get a teaching qualification in order to continue teaching bellydance evening classes. Fair enough. But tonight they revealed that it's not just a basic teaching qualification, it has to be a full teaching qualification. i.e. the same level as a secondary school teacher! Apparently I'll need to do a preparatory City & Guilds course (4 Saturdays), leading on to a Foundation course, which then leads on to a Diploma course. Someone mentioned something like 240 hours *sigh*.
Of course, there should be no problem shoehorning all that into my schedule. I mean all I'm doing is two part-time jobs, studying for a specialised dance teaching qualification, unofficial childcare for next door's kids, collaborating on a novel, developing my own dance with my own dance teacher, choreographing for our dance troupe, doing stuff on a church rota, not to mention the small matter of looking after two kids and a husband. And writing the odd fic in my spare time as well as my minimum-two-hours-a-night LJ habit.
*feels faint*
Oh and apparently the first day of the first course clashes with the birthday party that I booked for my 8-year old daughter. I shall have to phone up tomorrow and change the party date. If I can find time between spending 9 - 5 doing my arabic dance diploma and taking my daughter off to her new violin teacher to try out violins in the evening. And somehow finding time to get to the shops to buy her birthday presents before Tuesday.
Anyhow, I'd better go. I have to prepare a microteaching lesson to teach to all my fellow students on Sunday.
Just as well I cut down on some of my commitments earlier this year, eh?
*whimpers*
I've just found out from the staff meeting for my evening class that, apparently, new government regulations mean that I have to get a teaching qualification in order to continue teaching bellydance evening classes. Fair enough. But tonight they revealed that it's not just a basic teaching qualification, it has to be a full teaching qualification. i.e. the same level as a secondary school teacher! Apparently I'll need to do a preparatory City & Guilds course (4 Saturdays), leading on to a Foundation course, which then leads on to a Diploma course. Someone mentioned something like 240 hours *sigh*.
Of course, there should be no problem shoehorning all that into my schedule. I mean all I'm doing is two part-time jobs, studying for a specialised dance teaching qualification, unofficial childcare for next door's kids, collaborating on a novel, developing my own dance with my own dance teacher, choreographing for our dance troupe, doing stuff on a church rota, not to mention the small matter of looking after two kids and a husband. And writing the odd fic in my spare time as well as my minimum-two-hours-a-night LJ habit.
*feels faint*
Oh and apparently the first day of the first course clashes with the birthday party that I booked for my 8-year old daughter. I shall have to phone up tomorrow and change the party date. If I can find time between spending 9 - 5 doing my arabic dance diploma and taking my daughter off to her new violin teacher to try out violins in the evening. And somehow finding time to get to the shops to buy her birthday presents before Tuesday.
Anyhow, I'd better go. I have to prepare a microteaching lesson to teach to all my fellow students on Sunday.
Just as well I cut down on some of my commitments earlier this year, eh?
*whimpers*
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Date: Saturday, 15 September 2007 02:43 (UTC)Though that much time to qualify to teach what you're already teaching? Are you throwing advanced quantum physics in there too?
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Date: Saturday, 15 September 2007 19:56 (UTC)If all these qualifications actually contained something relevant to dancing I wouldn't mind so much - it's only general teaching techniques. So I'd be qualified to teach just about anything in any school. It seems kind of pointless, since I've never wanted to be a school teacher. (My mum was one, and that was the one career I knew from an early age that I didn't want to follow!)
If I read a few books on quantum physics, I could probably teach that as well by the end of it ...
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Date: Saturday, 15 September 2007 20:02 (UTC)