I’m providing a fuller report by owl to you both (and of course Whitacre), but thought you might appreciate a short note in advance. Today went quite smoothly, all things considered - such a shock for some of them, though to work under tighter discipline than has apparently been the case. I’ll give them a meeting or two to settle, and then take stronger action as needed. I have also been finding the meetings with individual students most interesting.
Miss Padma Patil turned out to be an excellent early subject - most agreeable when answering questions about her likes and dislikes, and with a number of detailed suggestions. Not all of them are possible just yet - or desireable, perhaps - but an excellent start. Curious the differences between her and her sister, mind, that one is so successful and the other far less driven.
Others, though, I found more puzzling - Miss Lestrange, for example. Her answers were, of course, entirely proper, but reviewing my notes, they were also not as informative as I might prefer. On the other hand, there are perhaps more useful avenues to begin with, and we could come back to her and those like her.
I have quite a few other notes, as I said, and of course I’ve a number of meetings yet to document. Now, I do think another meeting would be best, before the next YPL session. Perhaps the middle of next week (the 26th?) That would give me time to get through almost all the planned sessions with our CCF corps and counsellors.
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Date: 2012-09-16 11:00 pm (UTC)I’m providing a fuller report by owl to you both (and of course Whitacre), but thought you might appreciate a short note in advance. Today went quite smoothly, all things considered - such a shock for some of them, though to work under tighter discipline than has apparently been the case. I’ll give them a meeting or two to settle, and then take stronger action as needed. I have also been finding the meetings with individual students most interesting.
Miss Padma Patil turned out to be an excellent early subject - most agreeable when answering questions about her likes and dislikes, and with a number of detailed suggestions. Not all of them are possible just yet - or desireable, perhaps - but an excellent start. Curious the differences between her and her sister, mind, that one is so successful and the other far less driven.
Others, though, I found more puzzling - Miss Lestrange, for example. Her answers were, of course, entirely proper, but reviewing my notes, they were also not as informative as I might prefer. On the other hand, there are perhaps more useful avenues to begin with, and we could come back to her and those like her.
I have quite a few other notes, as I said, and of course I’ve a number of meetings yet to document. Now, I do think another meeting would be best, before the next YPL session. Perhaps the middle of next week (the 26th?) That would give me time to get through almost all the planned sessions with our CCF corps and counsellors.
Yours in service,
Dolores