KayaPapaya
Well-Known Member
Hello all I'm new to the site (wave)
Can I ask you all a really bizarre question?
How does your college teach practicals?
I am doing 1st year of NVQ2 and I am really strugling with the practical side of things.
Our teacher seems to show us somthing once - one demo on a stage. That's it. Then let us work on blockheads then walk round 30 minutes later saying no that's wrong, or yeah that's good. then clear off again, and then do the same.
I am just feeling really out of my depth. We then do it one week and then don't go back to it for 5 weeks when she says lets do an assement.
My hairdresser told me, that how she was taught, that her whole class stood roudn in a circle and they all head blocks on stands - the teacher is the first one, and they follow what the person next to them does - like Chinese whispers type of thing, and teacher stands behind WATCHING them.
I am really starting to wonder whether it'll be worth moving colleges or actually whether I want to do the next year of the course - I know shes a new teacher and frankly I won't stay if she will do the course next year. I struggle with confidence as it is, and I'm really struggling with her teaching (or lack of it).
So Please, how are you shown at your college? Maybe this is normal and I'm just not getting it quick enough, I don't know. I prefer being shown, then shown again, and again, and then working on somethign for weeks until we get it. In other disciplines, you learn routines I know it's probably not the same in hairdressing but I am not sure if it's her teaching, or me being thick
I also know I must practice more as well to gain confidence but it's a problem when I have a full time job as well![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Can I ask you all a really bizarre question?
How does your college teach practicals?
I am doing 1st year of NVQ2 and I am really strugling with the practical side of things.
Our teacher seems to show us somthing once - one demo on a stage. That's it. Then let us work on blockheads then walk round 30 minutes later saying no that's wrong, or yeah that's good. then clear off again, and then do the same.
I am just feeling really out of my depth. We then do it one week and then don't go back to it for 5 weeks when she says lets do an assement.
My hairdresser told me, that how she was taught, that her whole class stood roudn in a circle and they all head blocks on stands - the teacher is the first one, and they follow what the person next to them does - like Chinese whispers type of thing, and teacher stands behind WATCHING them.
I am really starting to wonder whether it'll be worth moving colleges or actually whether I want to do the next year of the course - I know shes a new teacher and frankly I won't stay if she will do the course next year. I struggle with confidence as it is, and I'm really struggling with her teaching (or lack of it).
So Please, how are you shown at your college? Maybe this is normal and I'm just not getting it quick enough, I don't know. I prefer being shown, then shown again, and again, and then working on somethign for weeks until we get it. In other disciplines, you learn routines I know it's probably not the same in hairdressing but I am not sure if it's her teaching, or me being thick
I also know I must practice more as well to gain confidence but it's a problem when I have a full time job as well