It’s funny how tutors, when giving feedback, tend to start highlighting the good things we did, right? I remember this great tutor who would start his feedback just like this:
‘Priscilla! Well... Your lesson was very good. You did this, this and that [bla bla bla... a long list of achievements]. HOWEVER...’
And everything would fall apart.
As I have just come back from my DELTA Module 02 intensive course, lots of colleagues and friends keep asking how it was.
To write about it I have chosen not to follow the steps of my tutors. I will do it excatly the other way around. Not that I disagree with them, but I just have so much to talk about on the high points that I still need to digest the whole adventure before being able to post anything.
What you are about to read is a piece I started when it was week 03 of the course and carried out throughout the whole course. I hope this serves as food fo thought and help you not to let this happen in case you decide to embark in this crazy adventure!
Prix. =)
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So sorry!
Expectation...
Why do we expect so much from others? It's been a while I've been meaning to write about teamwork again and its importance in such a tiring, hectic and suffocating course like the DELTA. Time has passed me by with all the essays and lesson plans that I had never had the chance talk about it with my peer colleagues.
Colleagues.
What an interesting word. In my own language and taking into account my personal view of the world - obviously - I see the 'co' in colleague as a means for collaboration, co-creation, co-working and why not comprehension and support... It's just funny that none of these views were even referred to in this intensive course.
This is the word: intensive.
It's exausting, demanding, painful... So what? Who cares? No one. No caring and sharing! I even heard of a classmate that we were supposed to work on our own, that we shouldn't write each other's papers. Since when is sharing, proof reading, discussing and giving suggestions the same as doing someonelse's work? I'm sorry, pal, but where I come from sharing means growing!
I have to confess that being this course as heavy as it already is just judging by its content that the minimum I was expecting from a group was that we could really work as a group. This was never encourged. I did try a couple - well, more than a couple - of times to get the group together to share ideas... I have volunteered to discuss lesson plans with peers... It never really happened. I'm so sorry. So many ideas not discussed, so much knowledge not shared, so much learning not...
So... So sorry!
