Nearly at the start of things

Just a couple of days to go now before the start of the semester, and I once again have that slightly queasy feeling of wanting to get started and at the same time wondering whether I still remember how to teach, and whether I might have some rather difficult students. I'm sure that it will all work out though.

I'm sure that the DELTA will also be fine as well, although I'm currently scratching at finishing off my RA and will need to get LSA3 on the road very soon after classes start - need to do extensive diagnostics with my students in the first few classes to make sure that I've got a good needs analysis basis on which I can build my language analysis and teaching plans, however those turn out...

Limbering up once more

After a decent break over Christmas, it's time for me to get moving once more, with both RA stage 3 and LSA3 already on the horizon. Don't entirely have my head together yet, but I'll hopefully get there. I'm making a start on the RA today, at least, and once again have to reflect that the timing of things doesn't help us a huge amount - we only had a month of teaching after RA stage 2, so little chance to read up and put that into practice and for that practice to be observed... Will have to see what work-arounds are available.

Was however heartned to see that I'd got a pass for LSA2, both for the BE and lesson itself. Wasn't too confident about it, so a pass was a nice result. Will have to see about improving on it though for the last two LSAs.