Day 5...

I was late!

Anyway, so far, so good... My students have already adjusted to our lessons. Though there are still some who couldn't really do their project on their own but at least they are exerting real effort to learn the commands. I just need to keep on reminding them to take down notes. Morning session ends up earlier because they have done their activity faster than the previous sessions. Afternoon session is equally good. There are more serious students on this group. They too finished their hands-on activity an hour before the time. So I just asked them to photocopy the notes and activity for tomorrow's session.

What a day!

 
Activity of the day: Circle Exercise 

Day 4...

It's Tuesday! Again and again I was late! I need to walk quite a distance before reaching the office and I usually find myself breathing heavily! (My tummy gets bigger and heavier anyway LOL)!

My students are improving well. There's only few left who just cannot really grasp the lessons as they should be. Our activity for today is quite challenging. I introduced new commands like Scale, Polyline and PEDIT! As usual, I spoon fed them with the do's and don'ts but there are still some who committed some mistakes. Anyway, for them to really do their best, we agreed that all unsatisfactory outputs will be returned to them unchecked so they have to repeat it until they got it right! At least they agreed with me LOL!

Activity of the day: Polyline Exercise

Day 3

It's Monday, and I was late! I was tagging along my son with me that is why I was late LOL! Anyway, I can see on the faces of my students that they are really determined enough to learn. Before giving them their activity for the day, I asked them about their struggles. Good thing they are open enough to share the things that they truly found difficult. So I once again made some recap with our past discussions. A series of demo was done. I also emphasized to them the value of taking down notes and listening to every discussions I gave. So far everything paid off with the result of their work. Indeed, extra patience is all I need!

Activity for the day: (Project 1) Lines and Arcs 

Day 2

Well, today is quite stressful for me. My patience was being pushed to the limit by my students. You see, I spoon fed them with what to do and all yet most of them just cannot get the instruction. They were given complete hand-outs with detailed instruction on it. However, they just cannot give me the desired and expected result from them. They even find it too difficult to save their work. Well, I just need to extend a little more of my patience. 

Activity of the day: Line Exercise

Day 1...

Well actually this was my second day but somehow there's a slight changes with the sectioning. Instead of handling two courses (Automotive in the morning and Electronics in the afternoon), the Dean of the CIIT instructed us to handle the two sections of the same course to avoid conflict with the schedule of their major subject. So I was assigned to teach the Electronics students and today would be our first meeting!

I first oriented them with some of the rules that they need to follow including the requirements that they need to comply in order to pass the subject. I also gave them the grading criteria as well as some expectations for the subject. Right after introducing to them the AutoCAD application, I gave them the freedom to explore.Well, I can see their willingness to learn. It's going to be a month long of patience and perseverance ☺

I really thought I would be idle from work for the whole summer but thanks to God I received a very timely text from a colleague that there's a need for an additional teacher for the Basic AutoCADD Summer Class with the students from Bukidnon State University-main campus. I've been handling BSU students way back 2008 and now I am back! Indeed many students were enrolled that they cannot be accommodated for just one section so they have to be divided. I was tasked by my colleague to do the splitting of students. As a result, we'll be handling 34 students for each section, not bad at all-just good enough for the available computers in our CAD Laboratories. 

I am so excited to handle students from Bukidnon again. I know they are still adjusting to CDO's climate considering that they have colder weather there compared to here. I know as well that it would be a challenging session with them. When asked if they have any background with AutoCADD subjects their answers are all negative. Good thing most of them knew the basic computer operation like booting and shutting down...

It's going to be a long and busy month for me! God bless me!