Deep and crisp and Faking it

Stardate 8 January 2009
Back to school the last two weeks of term. It’s an odd month this month has me questioning and second-guessing myself. I have to complete the terms paperwork and prepare some kind of fake lesson for this inspection that happens the first week of the next course. I should do an introduction welcome to the Stained glass here are the toilets and this is the health and safety rules kind of lesson. But I’m presented with a problem Many of the learners have being doing the course longer than me and this first week will be more interested in progressing their work and pushing their ideas than doing learner introductions to what are more or less their friends. The evening course is much more suitable to be inspected as the demographic is newer and many of the learners are closer to the level 1 nature of the course. Differentiation is however everything so whilst I’m happy for learners to work through basic projects, I’m delighted if they want to push their own skills to the limit. Many of the learners work to and beyond level 5 and 6.I have told the returning learners that the new term I’d like to focus more on leaded lights and I’m delighted to see most of the learners have jumped at this opportunity and are busy developing projects of this nature. If I’m lucky I can time the “leading up” demonstration to coincide with the inspection so I can do my “Time served craftsman” bit the question is should I have a pipe and beard to add authenticity? But the truth is the inspectors won’t come to this session they will come to the morning session where the learners are all working a range of mediums in a range of levels and how do I present a model workshop lesson containing all the Tricks required to get a grade one. I can do the Crisp start with the Aims and objectives slide, re cover health and safety mention the fire drill. I know I’m suppose to provide answers to all the questions i ask here but I’m still deciding...


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