Tears before Bedtime. Not mine.

It was actually a very un-Cor! kind of day. I thought I'd finished online at 11am with just my observation feedback to finish typing up, but a trainee did the whole, 'but the other trainer said this', carry on. I was the other trainer in this case.  There were tears on Zoom. Not mine. Myself, my colleague and said trainee met up in the early evening at my suggestion as I thought that was the easiest way to manage it and nip it in the bud. More tears, apologies, she said she hadn't been trying to play us off against each other, but just trying to understand things, which may well be true. Anyway, all a bit uncomfortable and hopefully it's now cleared the air, although it didn't feel like that to be honest after the 1.5hr session. This trainee wants to understand every little thing about everything little thing and a precise answer to every little thing. Sadly it doesn't work like that. She's not open to my colleague's suggestions in lesson planning, despite her 80 mins teaching experience against my colleague's goodness knows how many years. Nor, however, is she happy to run with her own ideas and then get feedback on them, which we'd be happy to let her try. I've said to my colleague that we need to cut back on lesson planning time with her as it's not productive or healthy for anyone to rehearse to the last second a million times. I hope we can reach an understanding as I want to enjoy the next 4 weeks and also help the other trainees enjoy the experience, which many do, despite the intensity.

An hour's smart matching around our barrio, taking me from 2,000 steps to 9,000 and then a pizza delivery helped the day end better. A stomp around our house got my 10,000 steps.