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Otterman Ollie · Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 8:24 am Post subject: Workshop Fatique Syndrome

Well there are workshops on chronic fatique I just wondered if anyone on this forum has had enough of workshops, period?
Its not that I don't think they can be worthwhile, I do generally. However, a small group of workshop givers with grand aspirations and even grander titles seem to be able to trot them out ad nasuem about the most mundane of subjects with very little revelance to what happens in the classroom. This probably comes from the fact they spend less time in there than us mere mortals, so have more time to dream up even more workshops. Am I the only one here who feels like saying "don't force me to attend this pap, let me draw on my hardwon experience to get the job done"

jimmiethefish · Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 29

Maybe you could give a workshop on that? Wink

Otterman Ollie · Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 8:38 am Post subject:

Oh yeah, now why didn't I think of that? A workshop on workshops and why I think most of them are a woft! That would go down a storm, really make me a target for the first one out the door for the next academic year.
Funnily enough , I thought why don't I post on Dave's and see if I am a lonely voice in the wild and wooly place we term academia. Perhaps a kindred soul has the same perspective and like me feels too much time is spent after normal working hours listening to some self appointed teacher trainer who is over paid and has to justify his existance with worthless and irrelevant advice and information. I forget the last time I walked away from a workshop with just a small something I felt I could and would use in the classroom.
But then again I have been teaching(at least I think thats what it is) for the last decade and a half, so what do I know?