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PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

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The secret to teaching is to pick a subject that has no homework/no markable homework and no out of school activities.

Sports would seem good until you realise there'll be matches. Maybe art and cookery wouldn't have marking.

Or, teach younger kids.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

The secret to teaching is to pick a subject that has no homework/no markable homework and no out of school activities.

Sports would seem good until you realise there'll be matches. Maybe art and cookery wouldn't have marking.

Art and cookery do have marking nowadays. Students have to write about the stuff they are doing.

Physics is mostly pretty good. Yes, there is marking, but it's not essays. The marking really isn't as bad for us as it is for most other subjects, and I'm quite happy to accept it as an OK sort of part of the job, given that I enjoy the job as a whole. It's just this hideous coursework. This is the last time I've got to do it for AS - it's being replaced with something else in the new A-levels that we start teaching in September, which I hope will be easier for us to mark. So this year we have it for AS (the practice, which is this one, and the real thing, in a few weeks) and A2 (just the real thing because they've already done something similar for AS last year and don't need a full practice). Next year, we'll have it for A2, and then that will be the end of it.

Have now marked the first section (11 marks) for the first student, so standing at 11/240 = 4.58% done.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Or, teach younger kids.

Shudder! No, no, no, no .... couldn't do that. Besides which, there's marking for any kind of teaching of children who can write at all, and if you have the very tinies you have do to all sorts of other record keeping of which attainment criteria you've observed them reaching.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I used to teach typewriting, no homework possible there!

Nice work if you can get it. I don't know that anyone gets paid to do that any more - you've been replaced by automated computer programming that teaches typing without any input from a human teacher.

Generali

PasturesNew wrote: »

The secret to teaching is to pick a subject that has no homework/no markable homework and no out of school activities.

Sports would seem good until you realise there'll be matches. Maybe art and cookery wouldn't have marking.

Or, teach younger kids.

I used to teach typewriting, no homework possible there!

I did it quite well when I taught Econ to Asians. As they could barely write English marking papers took moments. It doesn't take long to make a piece of paper with the word 'NO' written on it.

silvercar

This is what happens when you don't do your research properly.

Friend's child wants to be a secondary school teacher, has always wanted to be a teacher. Gets a place at a "new" university to study education. Very interesting course, lots of placements at schools, in depth analysis of how we learn, child psychology....starts looking around to see what she needs to do after university. Course is education not teaching so will need a pgce. Looks at pgse requirements and finds that you need to have studied a subject at university, one that is taught in schools. But she doesn't have that because all she has studied is education. So the only pgse course that she will get a place on is those specialising in teaching in infant schools (age up to 7). So she will have to do that, but the chances of getting QTS and using that to move to secondary school are next to nil.

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

This is what happens when you don't do your research properly.

Friend's child wants to be a secondary school teacher, has always wanted to be a teacher. Gets a place at a "new" university to study education. Very interesting course, lots of placements at schools, in depth analysis of how we learn, child psychology....starts looking around to see what she needs to do after university. Course is education not teaching so will need a pgce. Looks at pgse requirements and finds that you need to have studied a subject at university, one that is taught in schools. But she doesn't have that because all she has studied is education. So the only pgse course that she will get a place on is those specialising in teaching in infant schools (age up to 7). So she will have to do that, but the chances of getting QTS and using that to move to secondary school are next to nil.

Unfortunate. But it seems a bit odd to me. When she "wanted to be a secondary school teacher" she must have known that at secondary schools, teachers specialise in a particular subject or maybe two. What did she want to be a secondary teacher of? Why did she not realise she would need further qualifications in the subject she wanted to teach, rather than just in education as such? It's all very well knowing about the psychology of how children learn, but you can't teach a subject unless you know a lot more about that subject that the students you're teaching do.

Could she possibly get a place to train as a specialist teacher of PSHCE? That's the only way I can think of for her to become a classroom teacher. If she just wants to be doing something education related in a secondary school, could she do an EFL course and go and be a support person in a school with a high proportion of non-native-English-speakers? Or become an Ed Psych? Otherwise, yes, she's stuck with teaching tinies because at that age any adult should know enough of the subject content.

Now at 33/240 =13.75%

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

Somebody else with the same issue, but the advice is just to fill it - nothing about specifically whether you're tuning the big knobs, or the grey bits http://www.justanswer.com/hvac/60o7h-hi-there-boiler-not-working-it-s-ariston-e-combi.html

It's an Ariston e-combi 24 I've got

Checked out the window... plumber's not at home.

PN Hopefully the Plumber will be seeing you soon, but this is what I found.

Look for a small silver flexible pipe on the underside of the boiler. Towards the left near where it meets the wall. It should have two black or blue plastic taps on either side of the flexi-hose, like washing machine isolation valves.

If the hose has been removed then there may be a similar flexible hose affair elsewhere on the system, with two taps or quarter turn valves either side of it.

When both taps are in the 'on' position you should hear the mains water rushing into the heating system. Take care not to pressurise over 1-1.5 bar when cold.

http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=83418

lostinrates

Just hopping in. Sorry. Hoping someone will be able to recommend florist covering NW11 for a funeral, preferably who will deliver on sun but sat would probably be ok, I am sure it would be taken and held til next day , must be commonplace? If no one has a personal recommendation will use a further a field one, but closer always seems better to me.

LydiaJ

Sorry no florist recommendations from me. Don't know anything about NW11 I'm afraid.

Just back from taking DS to GP. Went through the triage system to get a same day appointment for an ear infection - all done and dusted in a few hours - confirmed it is infected and not just congested, penicillin prescribed and dispensed, pain about to start improving soon, we hope. Thank you NHS.

Coursework now at 66/240 = 27.5% (ie first 11 marks for all 6 students)

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Just hopping in. Sorry. Hoping someone will be able to recommend florist covering NW11 for a funeral, preferably who will deliver on sun but sat would probably be ok, I am sure it would be taken and held til next day , must be commonplace? If no one has a personal recommendation will use a further a field one, but closer always seems better to me.

You need GDB, he may know of NW11 florists or Mrs GDB may.

If not relevant ignore: If you are thinking about flowers for an orthodox Jewish funeral, they don't do flowers at funerals at all.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

You need GDB, he may know of NW11 florists or Mrs GDB may.

If not relevant ignore: If you are thinking about flowers for an orthodox Jewish funeral, they don't do flowers at funerals at all.

Not orthodox, but Jewish. Not sure what to do tbh. No one to give guidance specific to them contactable. Difficulty with addresses and where people are for cards too. Yes was hoping GDb might see. Thought you might possibly have social cross over with the area. . Felt giving better than not giving?