Training day

[franceslievens]

We travelled along the canal on a boat, got good food, and oh yeah, in between there was some incomprehensible chatter about vision and school concept. Maybe the assembled teachers did indeed manage to externalise their views on teaching and the school, but I did have the feeling we were only muddling along.

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[long-roadtoruin.livejournal.com]

Fun...

I'll be on a canal in Brugge tomorrow...then having a tour of the place! Hmmm...Fun. Or not, considering I have the plague.

xxx

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Canals in Brugge are a bit more fun than the one in Brussels. That one is a real route for boats getting their quarry from one place to another.

Have fun in Brugge. I've got school, so I can't come to accompany you. :-(

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Oh it was that kind of training day that serves as an excuse for a trip.

When the local government stopped the teachers from going on a "teachers' trip" once a year, usually to some not-so-nearby city with cultural significance and lots of restaurants, some schools became creative with their training days. I once attended a training day which on paper was about getting the kids to do more physical activities, but actually consisted of the teachers doing the activities - there was a choice of canoeing, cycling and rollerblading - and then we had a huge picknick afterwards.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Ooh, but we did some work on the boat! It's just that I don't know if something useful came out of it. The person leading the training was very chaotic in explaining and sometimes we didn't even know what we were supposed to discuss in our group. It felt like a session philosophising.