Mastodawn

It's my 1 year anniversary at work. I have survived my first year as an educator! Everyone who told me the first year would be tough wasn't wrong! In fact, they downplayed just how tough it is. But I'm still here, and still enjoying it when it's not immensely stressful. #Teaching #FurtherEducation #Apprenticeships #Apprentices

Stu Watts Mar 9

The long awaited follow-up to my insightful and incredibly well written blog about trying to become a teacher is up!
https://www.bone-idol.net/2025/03/09/teaching_devops_part2/

Disclaimer: may not be insightful or well written, but it is up.

#Teaching #Apprentices #Apprenticeships #GlosCol #DevOps #FurtherEducation

Teaching DevOps with Project Based Learning, part 2 ·

A new educator tries something

Stu Watts Feb 19

So, I'm finding that teaching sometimes feels like a long uphill trek, with little to no pay-off along the way. Might just be me, might just be what I'm teaching. But I'm someone that *needs* some payoff. Safe to say this is one of my least favourite bits of this job. However, I visited some of my apprentices at work last week, and they've only gone and implemented a concept I taught them about, and it's working and they're happy with it, and their manager is happy with it. Win! #DopaminePlease #Teaching #Apprentices #FurtherEducation

Stu Watts Jan 29

Having anxiety over a terrible job I had 12 years ago because I'm using their release process as a case study on "how not to do things" for my DevOps students >shudder< #DevOps #Teaching #FurtherEducation

Stu Watts Jan 13

Students are sitting my first ever exam this morning. I have never been so worried about having my work go out into "production". #FurtherEducation #HigherEducation #Teaching

Emeritus Prof Christopher May Jan 12

Away from the media spotlight the pay dispute in Further Education reaches strike action next week; but not all colleges reached the vote threshold for acton, and of those that did eight FE Colleges have settled the dispute with acceptable pay rises, leaving 25 Colleges on strike next week in England (including my local Lancaster & Morecambe College).

Its time the Govt. funded FE properly, not just spotting pious words with too little cash.

#FurtherEducation #politics
https://feweek.co.uk/further-pay-deals-made-ahead-of-teacher-strike-next-week/

Further pay deals made ahead of teacher strike next week

Multiple colleges have settled pay disputes with unionised lecturers ahead of next week’s England-wide strike action. Pay awards of up to 4.5 per cent have been agreed by FE teachers at a further four colleges across the country following the University and College Union (UCU)’s ballot over pay and workloads. Staff at Barnet & Southgate

FE Week

Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®Dec 26

Employer Branding durch Weiterbildung & Lebenslanges Lernen: Talente fördern & binden - In der heutigen Arbeitswelt werden ständig Aufgaben automatisiert und Prozesse optimiert. Erfolg fußt mehr denn je auf einer qualifizierten Belegschaft. Dafür benötigen aber alle Mitarbeiter Zugriff auf relevante Lehrmaterialien und Schulungen. #EmployerBranding #FurtherEducation #HighPotentials

https://berufebilder.de/employer-branding-weiterbildung-talente/

Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®Dec 22

Empowerment für Mitarbeiter: Auf zur internen Weiterbildung! - Der Fokus der Weiterbildung hat sich mit der Digitalisierung enorm verändert: mehr als um individuelle Qualifikation geht es jetzt um Sinnhaftigkeit und Mitgestalten am Unternehmenserfolg. Gute Gründe, hier mitzuwirken und mehr zu fordern. #Digitization #FurtherEducation #SocialMedia

https://berufebilder.de/empowerment-mitarbeiter-internen-weiterbildung/

Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®Dec 14

Berufsbild! Psychologie Lebenshilfe & Beratung: Traumjob oder Flop? - Es gibt Branchen, die in Krisenzeiten besonders boomen. Dazu gehört such der gesamte Bereich von Coaching, Lebenshilfe und Beratung. Die Zahlen deuten darauf hin, dass Coaching und Beratung ein Wachstumsmarkt ist. #CareerChoice #Coaching #EducationSystem #FurtherEducation #PedagogicsProfession

https://berufebilder.de/berufsbild-psychologie-lebenshilfe-beratung/

Best of HR – Berufebilder.de®Dec 13

Digitale Erziehung statt Leben in der Realität: Machen Medien Dumm? - Kinder müssen spielen, dadurch lernen sie und entwickeln sich. Digitale Medien untergraben diese Entwicklung. Was können Eltern besser machen? #Communication #Creativity #Digitization #Family #FurtherEducation #Learning #ProfDrGeraldLembke #SocialMedia

https://berufebilder.de/digitale-erziehung-realitaet-medien/