Thoughts on Staff Meeting
November 6, 2004
When Kristie was talking in our staff meeting yesterday about avoiding work in general and ESL in particular, I know she wasn’t giving me any dirty looks or anything, but even so, I hope I’m not one of the people who does that. I’m looking back on my behaviour, and I remember one time being reluctant but doing it with a smile, and one time I had a difficult time getting it across to a very loud and abrasive student that I was about to sit down with a girl who had come in before him, and that another tutor would be clocking in in just a minute. That one made me a little cranky—the world’s one and only student wanting me to drop everything and read his paper right now. I like to work—I do tend to get too absorbed in what I’m doing while waiting for work and someone has to rattle my cage, but then I wake right up and do what I’m here for. I want to certify, so I actually need those hours written down.
I think I’m a good tutor, and I think I’m getting better. My observation went well, and people seem to leave me feeling pretty good about what we did. I’m having a confidence crisis now, though. If I’m voluntarily and subconsciously blind where I’m concerned, someone please point it out (privately and gently, please).
I’m going so crazy in my Education classes that tutoring class is something I take care of when I think of it. I wish it weren’t that way, because I’m painfully aware of ripping myself off, which is why I’m taking the time this morning to take a look at things. I got here at 8:00; I figured the WC doesn’t open till 10:00 and I’d have time to get some work done. Well, I got some reading done—the Testing Center doesn’t open till 9:00. Oops. Ah, well. Lesson learned.
When Kristie was talking in our staff meeting yesterday about avoiding work in general and ESL in particular, I know she wasn’t giving me any dirty looks or anything, but even so, I hope I’m not one of the people who does that. I’m looking back on my behaviour, and I remember one time being reluctant but doing it with a smile, and one time I had a difficult time getting it across to a very loud and abrasive student that I was about to sit down with a girl who had come in before him, and that another tutor would be clocking in in just a minute. That one made me a little cranky—the world’s one and only student wanting me to drop everything and read his paper right now. I like to work—I do tend to get too absorbed in what I’m doing while waiting for work and someone has to rattle my cage, but then I wake right up and do what I’m here for. I want to certify, so I actually need those hours written down.
I think I’m a good tutor, and I think I’m getting better. My observation went well, and people seem to leave me feeling pretty good about what we did. I’m having a confidence crisis now, though. If I’m voluntarily and subconsciously blind where I’m concerned, someone please point it out (privately and gently, please).
I’m going so crazy in my Education classes that tutoring class is something I take care of when I think of it. I wish it weren’t that way, because I’m painfully aware of ripping myself off, which is why I’m taking the time this morning to take a look at things. I got here at 8:00; I figured the WC doesn’t open till 10:00 and I’d have time to get some work done. Well, I got some reading done—the Testing Center doesn’t open till 9:00. Oops. Ah, well. Lesson learned.
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