The course was fine. I found the course material easy to retain and work through. I had a horrible experience with my tutor. When I read reviews I found similar experiences to mine, so I don't think it is a one off problem. My tutor, Asif, graded assignments very subjectively. The brief for assignments were vague at best, however they gave a specific reuberic for what the assignment needed to have or not have. My tutor would give feedback asking for things the brief specifically said not to include or didn't talk about at all. His feedback was highly specific to his opinion and style of teaching. Which your course says they want individual teachers and are there to enhance unique teaching styles not create teaching robots. I found myself learning things a teacher should and shouldn't do during the course and then having my tutor act contrary to what I was learning. Because so much of his feedback was subjective I had a hard time revising assignments. What looked to me like an appropriate activty for teaching a concept, to him, needed a revision bevause it wasn't what he would do. I got to the point where I just asked him whay he want to lesson plan to look like, bevause unless it was a lesson plan that he would write he wasn't going to pass it. I was not impressed with my tutor and feel like the assignment portion of the course needs stricter rubric that tutors adhere to and only grade from, or the individual tutor needs to design the assignment according to their grading rubic and it needs to be given to the student prior to the assignments. I also wish there was more transparency on the course itself. I am teaching online one-on-one and the course I took almost exclusively focused on in-person large classroom teaching. However, there was nothing to indicate that would be the case prior to selecting this course. There a lot of options out there for telf certification and I would probably choose a different one.
10 months ago
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