After the first week, my voice feels sore as ever. With 12 hours in class and another 16 in FSRC, I am mildly concerned if I can keep this up week after week. By the 2nd week, I find myself on MC, down with the flu (or is it sore throat) of sorts.
I count 171 students in my module and another 19 in FSRC. Kinda hard to remember all the names, but I'm working at it.
One thing's for sure though... I definitely enjoy FSRC more than traditional classroom teaching. In FSRC, I get to teach them whatever I want, set them whatever project I want them to do. It is here that my experience has the most relevance, e.g. showing them how to use the Bloomberg machine. I also got them to play a stock trading game/role play, where we simulated a trading pit and some of the students were the brokers, some the stock exchange and the rest the investors. That was quite some fun.
Classroom teaching on the other hand... it's tough. I have one hour to deliver a fixed set of material and classroom control consumes so much energy. I so very much want to find new ways of teaching the material, but with so little time and so much material, I can't afford to try new things or wait for them to participate. So in the end, I feel like I'm dragging them through the questions and answers, then end the class. Problem too is that to make it interesting with stories, I don't have that wealth of experience so I need to do lotsa research. But I'm so tired!
My boss tells me he wants to introduce financial modelling to FSRC one day. Gets me all excited! Kinda miss financial modelling...
Major bummer came in the form of an arrow, firstly that I have to co-ordinate the Certificate in Fund Administration course in late November, then that I have to teach one of the sessions that week. The class is in fund administration... how stress is that? I not only have to teach an area I have not worked in before, but I have to teach it to a class of adults who mostly have years of experience in that line! Hai...
Overall, feeling very physically tired. I'm told I look more tired at 6pm than I used to be at midnight. No energy to clear O/S list...
I count 171 students in my module and another 19 in FSRC. Kinda hard to remember all the names, but I'm working at it.
One thing's for sure though... I definitely enjoy FSRC more than traditional classroom teaching. In FSRC, I get to teach them whatever I want, set them whatever project I want them to do. It is here that my experience has the most relevance, e.g. showing them how to use the Bloomberg machine. I also got them to play a stock trading game/role play, where we simulated a trading pit and some of the students were the brokers, some the stock exchange and the rest the investors. That was quite some fun.
Classroom teaching on the other hand... it's tough. I have one hour to deliver a fixed set of material and classroom control consumes so much energy. I so very much want to find new ways of teaching the material, but with so little time and so much material, I can't afford to try new things or wait for them to participate. So in the end, I feel like I'm dragging them through the questions and answers, then end the class. Problem too is that to make it interesting with stories, I don't have that wealth of experience so I need to do lotsa research. But I'm so tired!
My boss tells me he wants to introduce financial modelling to FSRC one day. Gets me all excited! Kinda miss financial modelling...
Major bummer came in the form of an arrow, firstly that I have to co-ordinate the Certificate in Fund Administration course in late November, then that I have to teach one of the sessions that week. The class is in fund administration... how stress is that? I not only have to teach an area I have not worked in before, but I have to teach it to a class of adults who mostly have years of experience in that line! Hai...
Overall, feeling very physically tired. I'm told I look more tired at 6pm than I used to be at midnight. No energy to clear O/S list...
O/S List
1. Specialist Diploma study guides
2. Module 3rd common test questions
3. Module Exam questions
1. Specialist Diploma study guides
2. Module 3rd common test questions
3. Module Exam questions
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