Teacher training days

dizziblonde

laurad85 wrote: »

thanks, i have to have my masters in for this friday (did everybody know student teachers have to do the first year of their masters along side their teacher training year?) and then i have 2 weeks left. YAY!

Think it depends where you're at - I know my uni had bundled their PGCE in with the first year of Masters but the mark scheme for assignment number 1 was so flawed it was impossible to score a sufficient pass mark on it to stay on the Masters part of the course LOL.

tamlem

laurad85 wrote: »

thanks, i have to have my masters in for this friday (did everybody know student teachers have to do the first year of their masters along side their teacher training year?) and then i have 2 weeks left. YAY!

Hi Laura,

Good luck with your last few weeks!

Just wanted to ask what you meant by doing the first year of your masters alongside your teacher training year?

I am a tutor in the dept of education at a university and this didn't sound familiar? Our masters is only a year in duration (Ft)? Wondering if you mean that you have to complete a dissertation (similar to that that you would complete as part of a masters) and that is what you were handing in this week?

Not nitpicking just genuinely interested. Thought maybe there is a HE institution which has started to do things differently?

Good luck with your future .

milliebear00001

dizziblonde wrote: »

Think it depends where you're at - I know my uni had bundled their PGCE in with the first year of Masters but the mark scheme for assignment number 1 was so flawed it was impossible to score a sufficient pass mark on it to stay on the Masters part of the course LOL.

Yes, some universities are offering two courses - one at Masters level, one at the old PGCE standard. Either way though, all 'newish' teachers are likely to have to complete Masters qualification in next few years. Older teaching staff probably going to be grandfathered though.

Spendless

BEFORE tt days used to happen. Where was the extra weeks holiday? Have thought about it from my own schooldays(left early 80') but can't remember where I had an extra week to what my children currently do.

maman

Why don't we ask Martin to set up a dedicated 'teacher bashing' board? All the people who want schools to be 'free' open-all-hours childcare establishments (except when they want tern time holidays) could post on it and the rest of us could avoid it like the plague!! This thread wouldn't need board guides for moderation as it seems anything goes when it comes to teacher bashing. On reflection maybe they would need them to shovel up the **** and move it all it to an archived collection.

pollypenny

Great thoughtful post, Dizzieblonde. Just one carp - please don't dismiss the older members of the staff room as fossils.

I loved the classroom, my subject (English) and preparing lessons & schemes of work. It was just the amount of marking got me down at the end.

Like millie, I also had kids and chose to become a teacher after doing something else. Do complaining parents not realise that most teachers are also parents themselves? We couldn't take our kids away in term time!

milliebear00001

Spendless wrote: »

BEFORE tt days used to happen. Where was the extra weeks holiday? Have thought about it from my own schooldays(left early 80') but can't remember where I had an extra week to what my children currently do.

I don't think it was a week placed anywhere, I think it was 'odd days' tacked onto existing holidays, so we got a couple of extra days in the summer hols etc. I wasn't teaching in the eighties (I was at school and LOVED 'Baker Days!), but our union never fails to remind us that Baker 'nicked' some of our holiday time!

peachyprice

Spendless wrote: »

BEFORE tt days used to happen. Where was the extra weeks holiday? Have thought about it from my own schooldays(left early 80') but can't remember where I had an extra week to what my children currently do.

Summer holidays are now a bit shorter, 5.5 - 6 weeks, as opposed to 6-6.5 weeks, Christmas holidays are shorter too 2 weeks as opposed to 2.5-3 weeks. It's only 5 days, so you wouldn't really notice 2-3 days short on both holidays.

pollypenny

After Christmas I would always go back to school before OH went back to work! Of course, during the 'holidays' I would usually have to write two sets of blooming Y11 reports!

Happy Days! ( You can tell I miss it!):D

woody01

We are academically 'elite' as you put it, in the sense that we are a profession, and like all professions, require a degree to do our job

If you seriously think a degree is an indication of acamedic elitism then i am so glad my children aren't taught by you.
I dont think my degree is a form of elitism (and i can guarantee with reasonable comfort that it is more academic than yours).

This is the fundamental problem teachers have.

Bash my opinions all you want to!
At the end of the day, the way you moan about your professions, and the way you need to tell anyone that will listen how hard done by you are, all points to the fact that:

a). you are in the wrong profession
and/or
b) you are a poor example of your profession with the opinions you so avidly put across.