TAE – Terrible (learning) angst ridden experiences :) part II

So thinking I could use some coaching to make everything go quicker with my assessments, I booked and went to a tutorial for a module that was so confusing about the assessment requirements. I seem to have trouble grasping the simple things lately while I yell at the clouds about them ….

I don’t know why but…. I expected the tutor to apply adult learning principles in course all about how adults learn.

The tutorial opened without the tutor asking us what we needed or indeed wanted to know (in the 30 minutes of precious time we had), it then consisted of the tutor talking through the assessment book. now there were already people in the call who could read the book, could watch another video of a tutor walking/talking through the book and I certainly had not attended to have the assessment book read to me.Far enough they did share some annotated notes and an example of a assessment piece (with a tone of delivery as if that was an amazing gift and would help us achieve more …mmm not really but thanks heaps for sharing what you could). Best intentions I am sure and I am not trying to disrespect that person. I would just like to see coherence between the content and the delivery experience.

What I wanted to know from the ‘learning coach’ was how to actually achieve the assessment with minimal fuss and wasting everyone’s time having them sit through 3 presentations and signing off on my ability. I was  also worried that my ailing phone would not have space for recording another 3 presentations and saving them !!

Never one to take zoom etiquette as gospel, I distracted the tutor by popping my questions into the chat. luckily they got distracted too and (hopefully the hint) and moved to that part of the book and answered my first question – Yay.  then they reverted to autopilot and starting reading through the booklet again from their placeholder …:0.

why did no one else put questions in the chat?

Waiting a bit I put another question into the chat – a longer pause this time before they responded and sort of answered my question in part. then they went back to their bookmark and kept reading through the book.  …:0….

at this stage, I though I might as well spend the time, working through the book and answering the ‘knowledge’ questions ie. cut and paste into the tables. acknowledging my sources of course. I turned my camera off saying my connection was bad (which it also was truly). ..

we all waved off wondering why we had bothered showing up (or was that just me?)…

Then I realised I had lost a previous file with all the knowledge questions mapped out….agh!! I now need to see this as an opportunity for repetition which should in theory help me to learn.. correct?  positive thinking applied.

The best course about learning that I have ever done is called learning how to learn – which opened as a MOOC (massive online open course) before educational platforms became popular and then commodified.  Dr /Prof. Barbara Oakley designed it – quite brilliant.  If only the TAE course designers had done this program too. The course is still running!!  still free on many platforms and so much more worth the effort than anything you might get a certificate from the VET sector in…big call and probably obnoxious to all the hard working educators in the TAE course design world.  Please prove me wrong by applying some of the androgogy that LHTL applies so well.

Video circa 2014

Maybe I could pull up my LTHL certificate and apply for RPL….ROFL.