Pre-service Teacher

First week into my course, which is called week 0 - I'm confused, too. And what a fuck-over it's been. Christ, after reading each subject learning guide, which is full of dense officialese language so we know how important this subject pretends to be, my eyes want to bleed. We don't even have a timetable yet - or some subjects do, others don't. My biggest gripe with the subject is task-switching between half-a-dozen platforms: LMS, teams, emails, forums, Zoom, Padlet. I don't even know how to use Padlet; I'd love to see how my assignments look in them haha. One of our readings was a document on the teacher standards, complete with waffly explanations of what a bespectacled technocrat sees our profession as looking like. Here is the Mount Sinai of our vocation. These be laws: Thou shalt deliver differianted teaching techniques in accordance with the diverse learning needs of your students. And so on and so forth. One of the few good things to come out of this is the chat in Zoom. I found out I was not the only one to have entertaining thoughts. I had a chuckle over some of them, including one of a pre-service teacher calling herself the mother of dragons. I've been zipping everwhere on my bike. One day exercise with my physio, another tutoring. I'm getting tired. My naivety and doe-eyedness about the profession has been disabused. Hello cynicism!