Starting Ptlls
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Starting Ptlls
This is a post for people at the beginning of their Ptlls journey – next week will be a long article for people who have finished and are looking at where to go next. So, on to my little guide if you are getting started with your Ptlls course. There are all the Ptlls essays with notes but this is more an overview of how I would tackle things at the beginning of the course if I were doing over. If anyone has any pointers please leave a comment.
Assignments:
• Straighten out your assignment deadlines right away. Make sure you know when everything has to be handed in. Someone on my course did all the essays in the first weekend because of confusion over the deadlines. • Start taking notes for your reflective learning journal early. This is practical assignment 6 but you need to be aware of it right from the beginning. • Always over estimate the amount of time you will spend reading and researching then proofing and referencing your essay. They are only tiny word counts but the preparation and then tidying up still takes time. • Know how to format and reference your essays properly. Might do an actual post on this because it is easy to trip up over.
Resources:
• Keep everything organised. If it’s anything like my course there will be dozens of handouts and bits of paper flying everywhere each session and unravelling them all and trying to put them back in order afterwards is a devil. Also tutors seem not to hole punch things, so have your own and remember how annoying that is for when you are distributing resources of your own! • Find your library, be it public or college etc, and see what books and resources they have there. Do this before you need it in a hurried panic later in the course. • If choosing books to buy base it on their usefulness not just during the course but as a handbook for your teaching practice afterwards. The library or even just the internet will
Starting Ptlls
This is a post for people at the beginning of their Ptlls journey – next week will be a long article for people who have finished and are looking at where to go next. So, on to my little guide if you are getting started with your Ptlls course. There are all the Ptlls essays with notes but this is more an overview of how I would tackle things at the beginning of the course if I were doing over. If anyone has any pointers please leave a comment.
Assignments:
• Straighten out your assignment deadlines right away. Make sure you know when everything has to be handed in. Someone on my course did all the essays in the first weekend because of confusion over the deadlines. • Start taking notes for your reflective learning journal early. This is practical assignment 6 but you need to be aware of it right from the beginning. • Always over estimate the amount of time you will spend reading and researching then proofing and referencing your essay. They are only tiny word counts but the preparation and then tidying up still takes time. • Know how to format and reference your essays properly. Might do an actual post on this because it is easy to trip up over.
Resources:
• Keep everything organised. If it’s anything like my course there will be dozens of handouts and bits of paper flying everywhere each session and unravelling them all and trying to put them back in order afterwards is a devil. Also tutors seem not to hole punch things, so have your own and remember how annoying that is for when you are distributing resources of your own! • Find your library, be it public or college etc, and see what books and resources they have there. Do this before you need it in a hurried panic later in the course. • If choosing books to buy base it on their usefulness not just during the course but as a handbook for your teaching practice afterwards. The library or even just the internet will