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Feb: Delivered interactive evening presentation, 'Dealing with Conflict -
Commentary:, CIPD's Jane Walton
had attended a similar session I had done in January 2007 as part of theYorkshire
Leadership Programme hosted by Wakefield College and used the ideas presented to
help her tackle issues in her own work team. This convinced her to ask me to make
the presentation. Feedback was enthusiastic.
Feb: Began working on a long(-
One of the boys was so severely affected by a combination of innate temperament and unfortunate experience that I felt I had no alternative other than to get him a referral to the local psychiatric services.
The second boy developed wonderfully under my guidance and was acknowledged by his parents, his teachers and a social worker involved to be making significant progress. Most heartening: the boy came to recognise his own needs and was effusive in his gratitude for the help he received.
April: Accepted into the Chartered Insitute of Personnel & Development with the grade of Affiliate.
August: All my tutees achieved or exceeded their target grades in the May-
Commentary: While I was pleased with almost all the results, it was the Sociology ones I found the most gratifying. Prior to Rossett I had only ever taught ‘bits’ of Sociology here and there on supply. This was my first experience of teaching a full module on the subject.
Of course, no matter how good a teacher I am, in the end it is the student’s result, not mine! The results reflect their smarts, their grasp of the subject and the amount of hard work they’ve put into it.