Another School Year

Although I wouldn't mind prolonging my summer holiday with one or two additional weeks, I guess it was ok getting back to work again. It all started with a two-day course at a conference hotel last week.

Since the participants came from all the adult education centres in town, I also got the chance to see my nice colleagues from my former workplace again. True, the very first person I ran into was my personal nemesis. But after having survived her basilisk gaze I was actually quite glad to get that over and done with. And afterwards I could socialize with my ex-colleagues. I don't regret leaving my former workplace. But it was a pity losing so many nice colleagues.

The program offered many relevant/interesting topics, although I personally didn't always find the relevant stuff that interesting. And vice versa.

An element which may not have been that relevant for the daily work in the classroom, but which still caught my interest, was a presentation of Holland's six personality types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional (or for short: RIASEC).

During the presentation we were encouraged to find our own personality types, and it turned out that both I and my neighbour defined ourselves primarily as S-, I- and A-types. On the other hand, I guess it's no surprise that teachers usually have a social, investigative and artistic disposition.

All in all these days were a rather good start of the new school year. And of course it felt great being able to eat as much soft ice and pop corn as we wanted. Teachers aren't exactly pampered with fringe benefits.