It's been a long time coming!

NuttySupplier · #1 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 09:54 AM

Welcome!
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I've wanted to do this for a while, and I've been prompted into doing it after being frustrated that I couldn't post what I really thought, how I really felt, in other forums.

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#2 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 01:38 PM

Hi, no longer on supply for 6 months, maternity cover, but willing to help in anyway I can.

#3 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 01:40 PM

Sorry forgot to put in my name, good luck to all, it's Zahra, the longest serving supply teacher!!

NuttySupplier · #4 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 01:46 PM

Hi Zahra! Welcome aboard and congratulations on the job
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, sounds like they really want to keep you there! How do you find the TEFL? I've thought about it a few times but never done anything about it.

Zahra · #5 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 03:11 PM

TEFL is great, very few discipline problems as the kids all want to learn. I am Course Director of a residential summer school for kids aged 8-19 from all over the world. Love the work, it's not as well paid as state school teaching but very little stress, you do need an impeccable knowledge of verb tenses though!! Much of it is grammar based and there is the pronunciation and stresses to teach.

If you're in Sussex I would be more than happy to welcome you into one of the classes next summer, then you can see for yourself what fun it is.

NuttySupplier · #6 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 03:18 PM

Sounds great... would love to come but we're miles from Sussex!

Verb tenses, one of life's great :? mysteries! I went through school when grammar wasn't taught at all. I first came across verbs and nouns at the tender age of 17, whilst studying for A-Level German and French! I'm all for this new-fangled way of teaching grammar to the littlies, but I'm still struggling with it myself. There were special
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ch-up courses when the Literacy Hour first appeared, for people my age, and I went on loads, but alas to no avail. I still don't know my imperatives from my connectives and resort to loo
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it up in my Ladybird Book of Grammar before each lesson!

I'm thin
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of loo
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into Outdoor Edu
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ion in this area for a job for the hols, there's a lot of them around here (I'm up in the Lake District), I think it would be the same sort of atmosphere, the kids would want to be there learning, even if it were wildlife studies.

Zahra · #7 (**permalink**) 19-11-2005, 03:57 PM

The TEFL way is a bit different to the NLC, I have to look up the mysterious words they use. Why couldn't they just
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y the TEFL names!!

#8 (**permalink**) 20-11-2005, 08:07 PM

Hey Nutty supplier...

I like the
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! He's beautiful!

NuttySupplier · #9 (**permalink**) 21-11-2005, 08:29 AM

Thanks! I've two border collies, Red and Tyler. This one's mine, Tyler, Red is a tri-
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, she really 'belongs' to my partner rather than me!

purple · #10 (**permalink**) 04-01-2006, 10:06 AM

Well done Nutty its a great site and will get bigger and better. I enjoy coming on here.

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