In With the New

I haven’t updated for a week or more due to some downtime because of ill-health; it made keeping three blogs on the go too much of a task!

However, a lot has been happening student-wise and I hope to reflect and report on it more regularly from now on.

At present I am split four ways in my teaching, which suits me rather well. I have one group of international students in week twenty of a twenty-eight week arts course; we are about to fly headlong into a unit on twentieth-century art in the west. A second arts group has just finished a film studies unit and is about to begin week thirteen of twenty-eight. My New Zealand Studies group is the same amount through their course, last seen looking at the allies in World War Two, and today began a new intake of local students in their preparatory programme. I am involved with a study skills course for them.

I volunteered to take the first lecture in this course, and was pleased enough with what I came up with. As a group the students seemed focused listeners, but the proof of that will be in the tutorials (of which there are three to every lecture).