Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Left the house at 530am, although my mom said my cousin would probably be looking for me when he left at around 7am.

So far, other that looking in on the electronics lab during his 8am Introduction to Robotics class, I haven't seen him around. Probably during the 2pm kinematics lab class.

Hitching a ride going home yesterday with Ma’am Lissa, who is in charge of assigning our workload, I found out why the third section in kinematics was removed. She couldn’t find a way to reconcile that schedule with the one for introduction to robotics, whose senior half of the team teaching roster was only available on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings.

She even told me that the original section allotments only allowed for twenty students in the lecture classes, which she apologized for increasing to 29 since it was down to two sections now. I said it was okay. For some reason, teaching a class of 30 students is way better than teaching a class of 40 students, it’s more than a geometric or exponential improvement.

Although I realized setting a maximum of 19 students in the laboratory classes makes it a little difficult to divide them into even groups. And considering there are only 4 sets of equipment for each experiment, that means three groups of 5 and one group of 4 students each.

She also seems to have difficulty finding time for the science laboratory schedules as opposed to the computer lab schedules, which are considered both lecture and hands-on sessions for a total of three hours a week. I told her laboratory classes have a maximum of 30 minutes lecture at the start of the session, just in preparation for the experiment.

I think I’ll try to cram as many experiments per session as I can for these classes, so that the students may have some free days towards the end of the term when we’ve finished all the experiments. Maybe that’ll give us an idea if it would be possible then to allot just two hours for the science laboratories.

Ma’am Lissa also asked me to encourage the students to start a Science and Math Club, as it seems they aren’t much interested in one from when Maila taught their math subjects. Well, let’s hope I can make them more enthusiastic about the sciences.

For the 11am kinematics lab class, I took the centerstage while my co-teacher David (who is also handling the Robotics class) sat on the sidelines. I pretty much gave the standard lab class orientation including the complete set of requirements and the group assignments. The only thing different is the removal of the oral report.

I also reminded them that lab gowns will not be required, although open-toed sandals are discouraged especially during the experiments on freefall and gravity.

Lastly, I also said that each experiment won't take the entire three hours, but if the leader assigned to the next experiment is ready and the whole group is willing, they can proceed with the next experiment, so that they could stock up on free days towards the end of the term.

We left all the materials (syllabi, class cards) in the lab in anticipation of the 2pm class later. I guess I'll relate what happens there tomorrow, as well as my TrigApp and Mechanics classes.