I’ve brought home 5 files from the North American Montessori Association – the only one missing is practical life apparently, which is supposed to be very easy to pick up on. The language and culture areas may take the most work – all of this is for the Children’s House, no doubt there will be similar amounts later on for the lower and upper elementary, as the plan is I will continue and acquire all qualifications before we branch out into unknown territory.
I’m slightly intimidated, but at the same time a bit thrilled – how am I ever going to remember every scripted presentation??? And are all of these how Maria Montessori would have done it, or have they grown and evolved – can you mix and match, tweak and polish? Not when starting out, obviously, but is there room for interpretation and adaptation?
I don’t actually have the course materials in terms of assignments and question sheets yet, these are the returned files from my predecessor, rather than the ones which will come with my course. I think I might get started over the weekend. I’m a little surprised that there doesn’t seem to be anything craft related in all of this – I would have thought many crafts grow out of and build on skills acquired through the practical life sessions, but maybe I’ll find out more about all that as I go.
Considering running a separate blog about my training based on the school website, which would be a less personal one, but would hopefully grow as a resource and act as a draw to the site. As well as being educational for me to write 🙂 I could end up with as many blogs as there are days of the week as also considering a group one for getting my fitness and health in order. (Somehow I just don’t want to say that I’m dieting. Weight loss is part of the plan, but only because I feel flabby and unfit – I suspect if I felt fit and healthy I wouldn’t give a monkeys what size trousers I’m wearing.)
Yes, did go to see house yesterday. Yes, am hoping to organise renting of it, need to sort out more paperwork tonight, having set off to post forms today and then realising that all our utility bills are online, so I can’t send any in! (Mobile phone bills will do, and I think I’m still getting paper varieties of that at the moment, phew.)
Work at ITland, rather than gradually scaling down is rapidly ramping up as there are now three of us working our notice in the support dept. There’s a sort of siege mentality settling in on those left behind and I can already see a distance growing between myself and the rest of the team. Some of that is good and they are working out how they will work together without me, and some of it is bad as they are already rebelling against some of the practises I put in place that are actually worthwhile. Ah well, very soon be someone else’s problem.
Right, do I want to watch some tv or do I want to go to bed. Very tired tonight, can’t think that that has anything to do with being online trying to help sort out problems at 11pm last night 🙁
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