Staying Cool at School
Back to School As I was winding up draft 14 of my memoir, life took an unexpected turn. An opportunity came up for me to enrol in the Certificate IV in Training & Assessment – on a scholarship. It's a special offer for trainers of pre-accredited courses to up-skill their teaching to include literacy and numeracy. Apparently this funding has been allocated in response to research that 99% of employers aren't happy with their employees literacy and numeracy skills. Although my year was already full, and people told me that it's a really heavy and hard course, I enrolled. The first couple of weeks introduced an intimidating workload; not just intimidating to me, but to many members of the class. Mopping tears of frustration, I considered withdrawing from the course. I spilled my frustrations onto Facebook; something about 'so very, very, many, many, many, maddening pages of work.' I took it down, reminding myself not to spill onto Facebook like a lunatic. I spoke ...