Wednesday, February 22, 2006

our very first PA training session

今天下午,是PA今年的一次training。感觉自从月初的general meeting之后,很久没有集体活动了。这次大家还算给面子,出勤率也有60,70%了吧~ 不过,我们这届也算是很对得起他们了,直到现在才有第一次training,去年我们可是一周一次,到了2月底的时候talentime都已经开始连排了。

点名,然后samuel tan讲了一堆废话,就开始上课了。我实在不想用training这个词,因为的确只是上课而已。先是sound,然后light。先是一两个人睡觉,然后是一两排人睡觉。要是有椅子和桌子,我很有可能一起睡。

后来吃过晚饭,终于开始正式的hand on。虽然好像很多人都已经累了,不是很能提起精神,不过engaged的人还是比上课的时候多了不少,还算有点安慰吧。

最后弄完所有东西,samuel tan问我们有什么看法。我便把我对上课的不满表达出来了,我说我们可以先让juniors有hand on,然后再讲theory,要不然会像今天这样很多人睡觉。可是好像他不是很同意我的话,于是我说as all the juniors r not very professional yet, they are just like primary students. when we were in primary school, we were only told what to do, but not why we do it. so why did we teach them the theory first? later if they have questions abt why they need to do the thing in such way, they can come and ask us lor.

可是,很多时候,我们知道怎么做了之后,就会懒得去问为什么要这么做。也许这就是为什么samuel tan想让junior从一开始就学习theory的初衷吧。

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Physicists think that human beings are supposed to know the every basic rule, the fundamental equation of the universe, then, we derive the equation in order to suit it to different circumstances. For example, we should know the Theory of Relativity before be know Newton's law of motions, because Relativity is more general than Newton's Laws, which is only applicable when velocity is low. However, the real life is opposite. That's why people are trying to find the Generally Unified Theory (GUT)....What I want to say is that, theory comes later. That's the nature process for us, human beings in this universe.

SenCordE said...

哇~~说得真好啊!!虽然我不知道generally unified theory是什么东西...
不知你是有意还是无意,samuel tan刚好是物理老师~~

Anonymous said...

我还是相信 实践出真知 的。说实在,我觉得那些theory现在都没什么用。或许是我自己不会用吧。samuel tan总是这样,从好的角度出发,选不好的路走。但他已经进步很多了,至少从tutorial上来说。

SenCordE said...

“从好的角度出发,选不好的路走”说得真好!
其实如果我们真的想要学得更深一点的话,那些theory是必需的。但问题是,又有多少人想真正学下去呢?

Btw,我觉得他的tutorial的plan很清楚,每次上课前都会列出我们要学习的内容,只是他自己讲不清楚而已...

Anonymous said...

Mr.Tan...physics teacher...disqualify him! oh, yeah~~

Anonymous said...

by the way, his the teacher in charge right? Why does the other technician seem to have more authority?..

SenCordE said...

u r indeed observant~~ i didn't notice that until i became an exco member and the seniors told me... of course it was partially becoz last year the teacher in charge was another one and the situation was not as obvious as now...
it's really quite a long story why the technician seems to have more power than the teacher ic... u will learn sooner or later... before u know the whole story, just bear in mind that the teacher ic is still the one who has the last word...

Anonymous said...

haiz... teachers VS technician thingy again
i just hope e trainings does help ppl
guys work hard!!!! talentime!

SenCordE said...

from my point of view, prolonged training is not exactly necessary other than the very basic ones..
practically, i think it's the troubleshooting part that is difficult and requires time to acquire the skill. and this comes from doing various duties...

Anonymous said...

slacker slacker..im e slacker..

SenCordE said...

strongly agree

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