1st December 2009 9:00
By Blue Tutors
It’s been a slightly strange week for me, doing lots of annoying little things that have to be done, but stop me getting on with anything more interesting.
I have been developing a way to teach our teaching ideas; lots of people have asked in the past about whether we offer any training, and I have been disappointed in the past that we have had to say no. We have always tried to make our teaching guidelines as helpful as possible, but it would obviously be helpful if we offered interactive training.
I think that I was originally trying to do too much with the course, and felt that I was labouring a little over discussing our teaching ideas to ensure that tutors had demonstrated them to me completely. What became clear is that simply by asking tutors to teach me, I can confirm whether tutors are doing everything that we ask them to. The last few sessions I’ve had with tutors have gone really well, I just stop them every 3-4 minutes, and we discuss that period of teaching. The results have been great, and I’m hoping that we’ll be able to make these courses more widely available in 2010.