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Post by johnc on Oct 9, 2023 12:21:37 GMT
We have a friend who got divorced a couple of years ago and has now started a one year University teacher training course so that she can go back to work and hopefully have hours and holidays that fit with her two youngest children.
She was complaining to my wife yesterday that they spent some time last week looking at fractions and talking about the requirements to teach them and their importance etc. However they have not been taught how to teach fractions and when questioned they were told they should follow the curriculum and find a method of teaching that they were confident in!!
Is this one of the reasons you get some outstanding teachers and some (many) crap ones? The outstanding ones find ways to convey the knowledge in an understandable way and the crap ones don't or don't bother.
I really think the best teaching methods for most of the basics should be agreed upon and taught across the board.
Apparently most of their course so far has been on gender recognition, inclusion, multi culturalism and being totally PC. She's a bit disillusioned.
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Oct 9, 2023 15:03:49 GMT
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Post by Big Blue on Oct 9, 2023 15:03:49 GMT
Yep: unless you get a decent Trust / Head Teacher / Board of Governors teaching can seem a bit secondary I reckon. Also being an old guy with young kids I see the world far differently to the teachers that are barely a year or two older than the girls’ brothers!
Interesting that as part of Black History Month T4 had an assignment to review a Steve McQueen film. I automatically took the “LeMans” Blu-ray off of the shelf until I was told this Steve McQueen is the director of “12 Years a Slave”, which is a decent film anyway.
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