14. Lesson Planning
Its Sunday night. Your headache sits with you as closely as the pizza boxes and bad looks from your parents as you staggered in as they were eating breakfast. Its okay though. Rattle off the lesson plans and then the 2000 word reflective essay will roll off the keyboard. Then you hit a snag. How the hell do you do the lesson plan?! Youve been given three templates from Mr Weary (one is like a clock! Cool!) but the lesson-planning session on your course isnt for another fortnight. You stare at it. A mess of words and empty boxes. Lesson Objectives? Learning Outcomes? Equality & Diversity in the lesson? Differentiation? Resources? Oh God. You were just going to totally blue sky the session. Sit the kids down, Dead Poets Society-esque, in the field and talk about life and their expectations for the future. You were going to mentor these kool kids through the obstacles of life. Sod it. Youll stick a video on for ten minutes and get them to write about it. Boom.