03-02-2006, 06:03 PM
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Warwickshire
Posts: 709
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
What's your favourite subject to teach?
And what's your least favourite?
I like maths best - and you get to do it every day!
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
I like literacy least. And you get to do it every day!
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
I'm a black-and-white kind of person - maths is either right or wrong and you can easily see (and explain) why. Literacy I find much harder both to get across what I'm after and to decide if the children have done it or not. And it takes MUCH longer to mark (having just finished in school at 4.45 today as the class teacher left an extended write for them to do today. Gee thanks.)[/b]
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
03-02-2006, 06:51 PM
|
 |
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Eating Chocolate - yum! x
Posts: 4,914
Thanks: 107
Thanked 80 Times in 63 Posts
|
|
Snap!
I wasn't really taught Lit at school, which doesn't help, haven't a clue what they're after sometimes! Sub-ordinate clauses at year 5?! I only did them at degree level
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
!
Beware some schools... I've been in a few now where the kids are set, and one teacher does all the numeracy, and one does all the literacy... double literacy in one day... nightmare! [smilie=hate-mirror.gif] 60 stories to mark before you go home!
__________________
Nutty x
Site Owner and Chocoholic. Thank you for your continuing support.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Twitter: @NuttySupplier
Facebook:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Would you like me to check your covering letter, CV, supporting statement or application form?
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
for information or visit the main website.
|
03-02-2006, 07:38 PM
|
 |
College Clown
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,246
Thanks: 10
Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts
|
|
favourite: Art
least favourite: R.E.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
03-02-2006, 07:56 PM
|
|
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Eating Chocolate - yum! x
Posts: 4,914
Thanks: 107
Thanked 80 Times in 63 Posts
|
|
Oh yes! Forgot about RE! Only think it's bad when it's Christianity... the others are fascinating!
__________________
Nutty x
Site Owner and Chocoholic. Thank you for your continuing support.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Twitter: @NuttySupplier
Facebook:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Would you like me to check your covering letter, CV, supporting statement or application form?
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
for information or visit the main website.
|
04-02-2006, 08:51 AM
|
|
College Clown
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,246
Thanks: 10
Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts
|
|
I just wonder about the relevence of R.E. to children's lives. OK, so they have to be aware of other religions but I always try and compare traditions and Bible stories to their lives, e.g. we did Joseph and his techni
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
ed dreamcoat story and I got the kids to think of their own item of clothing that helps them do things, e.g. "Jordan's Sheep Pyjamas - Helps her sleep soundly and makes her feel snug".
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
04-02-2006, 09:38 AM
|
|
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Eating Chocolate - yum! x
Posts: 4,914
Thanks: 107
Thanked 80 Times in 63 Posts
|
|
It seems to be sometimes just another circle time... time that could be spent dealing with things which, like you say, are more appropriate to the children's lives. There isn't enough pastoral care in some schools, you never see 'dealing with absent fathers', 'dealing with
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
ic parents' etc. in primary schools... but these are hugely topical to the kids where I am!
A lot of morals etc. are taught through bible stories, but the kids find it so hard to translate into real life, I think there're easier ways to teach them the same values.
Tolerance/understanding of others should be a thread within PHSE itself, rather than making it discrete (sp?) in the teaching of Judaism etc. Teaching individual religions like that, you are already putting people into groups, stereotyping.
Soap box!
__________________
Nutty x
Site Owner and Chocoholic. Thank you for your continuing support.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Twitter: @NuttySupplier
Facebook:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Would you like me to check your covering letter, CV, supporting statement or application form?
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
for information or visit the main website.
|
04-02-2006, 09:52 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 89
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
I did one of my placements last year in a tough area of Liverpool in a Catholic school. I am an atheist and found it hard to teach RE (2 hours a week) and do prayers 3 times a day, but I found that the school had such a strong ethos and the children were so good due to the morals they were taught through their religion.
I find it so much easier to teach religions other than Christianity though, probably because I feel that I should tell/imply to the children that I am a Christian myself - images of angry parents coming into school haunt me!
So RE definately not a favourite! Give me science or art any day - think I could spent my life teaching those! Maybe I should have gone for secondary!
|
04-02-2006, 10:32 AM
|
|
College Clown
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,246
Thanks: 10
Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts
|
|
I'm an athiest too. Did you see that programme about America and Creationism versus Darwinism? It was really freaky that they wanted to teach Creation Story as a Science base topic as opposed to R.E.! Mad!
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
04-02-2006, 10:40 AM
|
|
Administrator
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Eating Chocolate - yum! x
Posts: 4,914
Thanks: 107
Thanked 80 Times in 63 Posts
|
|
I'm a sit-on-the-fence true agnostic... and that sounds like a
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
! As an american friend of mine used to say (and I'm sure plenty others) 'only in America!'
__________________
Nutty x
Site Owner and Chocoholic. Thank you for your continuing support.
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Twitter: @NuttySupplier
Facebook:
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Would you like me to check your covering letter, CV, supporting statement or application form?
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 4 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
for information or visit the main website.
|
04-02-2006, 10:59 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 89
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Don't get me started on that! Coming from a science background it makes me so
To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 1 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
that they're trying to ban evolution from the curriculum.
|
| Thread Tools |
|
|
| Display Modes |
 Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 12:43 AM.
|
|
