In my first post I wrote about the daily routine and how I feel bored of it. It is obvious that the reason for being bored is the lack of change in my life .. the morning is just like the afternoon .. just like the evening !!
Today I had a new kind of boredom. There was something new and different about this day. I had a session at an IT course ( EDUEGYPT ) which usually lasts for six hours ( from 9 to 3 ). I took the first semester two months ago and it was very interesting that I didn't want it to end. The second semester , which I'm taking these days , is not interesting at all , and that's because :
1- The content itself is kind of boring. It's about business writing , which requires a lot of writing activities like editing , correcting , revising letters and reports .. the kind of activities that make you dream of your bed.
2- The instructor is a very poor-skilled guy both in handling the topics and in managing the session. He keeps reading the PowerPoint slides from the PC , things that already exist in the students' handouts , and then he repeats what is written in other words without even giving any practical examples !!
The only activity that we do is that we divide ourselves into 3 groups and take about half an hour to prepare for a presentation .. and guess what do we do in these presentations ?! We repeat what he has just read from the PC , hehehe …
A Revolutionary Act :
Because we couldn't put up with someone like that guy for six hours every week , we gave him a very bad evaluation. That was not enough though , as 19 out of 26 signed a complaint and sent it to the project manager ..
Actually I enjoyed the idea of protesting , no matter the result it would bring or how it could affect the trainer ..
Some people refused to sign the paper although they don't accept him. I don't know if that was out of fear ( completely unjustified fear ) , or simply because they refuse any new attitude ( for they are totally unused to such kind of acts ) .. I don't know !!
Anyway , that was the only New Thing that I did this week , do you think I'm making progress ?
Today I had a new kind of boredom. There was something new and different about this day. I had a session at an IT course ( EDUEGYPT ) which usually lasts for six hours ( from 9 to 3 ). I took the first semester two months ago and it was very interesting that I didn't want it to end. The second semester , which I'm taking these days , is not interesting at all , and that's because :
1- The content itself is kind of boring. It's about business writing , which requires a lot of writing activities like editing , correcting , revising letters and reports .. the kind of activities that make you dream of your bed.
2- The instructor is a very poor-skilled guy both in handling the topics and in managing the session. He keeps reading the PowerPoint slides from the PC , things that already exist in the students' handouts , and then he repeats what is written in other words without even giving any practical examples !!
The only activity that we do is that we divide ourselves into 3 groups and take about half an hour to prepare for a presentation .. and guess what do we do in these presentations ?! We repeat what he has just read from the PC , hehehe …
A Revolutionary Act :
Because we couldn't put up with someone like that guy for six hours every week , we gave him a very bad evaluation. That was not enough though , as 19 out of 26 signed a complaint and sent it to the project manager ..
Actually I enjoyed the idea of protesting , no matter the result it would bring or how it could affect the trainer ..
Some people refused to sign the paper although they don't accept him. I don't know if that was out of fear ( completely unjustified fear ) , or simply because they refuse any new attitude ( for they are totally unused to such kind of acts ) .. I don't know !!
Anyway , that was the only New Thing that I did this week , do you think I'm making progress ?
I couldn't stop laughing while I was reading your NEW post mate :)
ReplyDeleteThis Guy Really Sucks.
What makes me much more frustrated that he doesn't prepare what he is going to teach, so he skips the parts that he does not understand just like we do. I wonder what is the difference between the teacher and the student then!!!
Teaching is all about talent and preparation; if I am not talented I could make things work out through good preparation , and if I did not prepare I could mange things with my talent, but how on earth I am going to do anything at all without both Talent and Preparation.