Gold stars for all

Stardate 8 October
Well a normal feeling week. The lessons were both good work-shopping ones. I’m trying to think how I could have improved them without reducing the productivity; I think I gave a good amount of attention to all the learners; I am concerned in the evening class that a couple of the new learners haven’t returned but I was thinking about this. I’m sure some people enrol on courses for unexplained reasons that are there are some benefit advantage to it. If I was to guess or speculate id say one of the missing learners was there for such a reason. But I don’t actually know they could be stuck down a well for all I know. The new learners all learn at different rates. One of them is hugely unconfident and I think concerned that other learners are progressing faster than she. I have spent time explaining that it’s not a race and her time is better spent getting her feel for the tools and building her skills at her own rate and has her own understanding of what she’s learned. I don’t want to chase her off or intimidate her from the course as in my experience; they do all get the hang of it. By the end of the lesson she had cut out her project fairly well and you could see the proud look of achievement on her face. I am taking care now to praise the learners more and to draw other learner’s attention to successes, as it helps promote a stronger social feeling, which has a twofold benefit firstly they feel better about themselves and secondly they stick with the course and I get to keep my job.