Wednesday, 25 March 2015

NZSL intensive day

It was exciting to get to class after my refresher the night before. I had for some reason though there were two teams coming along but it was just the Franklin team of 6 RTDs plus the three tutors. The ration of teachers to students was 1:2 which was fantastic.

We started off with a signed 'catch up' with our peers. Within a short time I discovered that I need access to a whole range nouns and topical vocabulary. This was something I commented on in my feedback to the presenters: "Could we have some short and snappy topic based vocab sessions (3-5 minutes) dotted throughout future sessions.