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Flyonthewall

burlington6 wrote: »

Slightly off topic but I have a problem with teachers who teach subjects they have no experience in.

My granddaughter is taking business studies. The business studies teacher is a local woman who is well known.

She's 24, has a degree in English Language and then obviously took her teacher training. Her parents paid for her to get through uni but she has never had a job. Not even part time.

What a woman of 24, with no experience of the working world is doing teaching business studies in a high school is beyond me.

Potternerd wrote: »

She does have a job: she's a teacher. Are you saying all English teachers should have written a novel, all Geography teachers should have travelled the world and all chemistry teachers should have worked in chemical plants?

I would expect the teacher to have studied the subject they teach to a high level. Doesn't sound like that teacher has though so seems a bit odd that she's teaching business studies after studying English Language.

Regardless of experience or study, does she do a good job? If so, what does it matter?

Flyonthewall

onomatopoeia99 wrote: »

You get a polling card which tells you when and where. You do not need to take anything to the polling station apart from yourself. Also, they are adults, not kids. I know policitians seem intent on extending childhood, but by age 16, never mind 18, people should be taking responsibility for informing themselves about things they don't know and want to.

Assuming they take note of the polling card and don't think "hmm, voting? Don't know anything about that, don't care. Bin."

They should, doesn't mean they are.

Regardless of what anyone thinks kids should find out through parents or research themselves or what they think are simple, obvious things we have to base it on facts. The facts are we sadly have some people with no common sense, some people who are really stupid, some people who don't have others to turn to, some parents who don't know all the answers themselves and the Internet doesn't always give the right information because anyone can write anything online.

Of course, if you live in a vacuum and completely miss all the news coverage of upcoming elections, which in the case of a general election is wall to wall for at least a month and it is all over social media as well, then you might miss that it's happening. To do so you would have to not turn the TV on, not look at a newspaper and not be on facebook or other social media. I guess there must be some people like that, but there cannot be many.

The amount of times I've seen something and just though "ugh, not that again". I notice what it's about, but not what that specific post or news story says because I've ignored. I've scrolled past it, clicked on another window, walked past the paper stand and focused on something else, turned the TV channel over, zoned out and got lost in my own thoughts or whatever.

Even when things are everywhere it's surprisingly easy to completely ignore them.

I remember general elections getting talked about by teachers when I was at school. We had a mock election one lunchtime in 1983 shortly before the real one (I would have been 13, so in secondary school), which was won with a huge majority by the Official Monster Raving Loony Party candidate, as he gave the funniest speech.

As for common sense, the thing that was most frequently said about me growing up was "all the brains and no common sense.":D

A lot of schools don't do that though.

lol aww.

Feebie

I teach maths and if I had a £ each time I was asked 'miss, when am I going to use this in the real world?', I'd have a few extra quid in my pocket ��.

In all seriousness, when appropriate, I do discuss real life aspects of the subject with my students, some of which relate to life skills - mortgages, payday loans, government spending and taxation, cooking, timetables - and some which don't - trigonometry, pythagoras' theorem for example.

In addition ('scuse the pun), Maths develops other transferable skills which are relevant in the workplace, for example, problem solving, selecting appropriate methods, logical thinking and resilience.

As a more general point, in my experience, schools do teach about voting, first aid and other non subject based knowledge / understanding as part of pshe and enrichment programmes.

lincroft1710

Really good schools have French, music and washing as extras.

Flyonthewall

Feebie wrote: »

I teach maths and if I had a £ each time I was asked 'miss, when am I going to use this in the real world?', I'd have a few extra quid in my pocket ��.

In all seriousness, when appropriate, I do discuss real life aspects of the subject with my students, some of which relate to life skills - mortgages, payday loans, government spending and taxation, cooking, timetables - and some which don't - trigonometry, pythagoras' theorem for example.

In addition ('scuse the pun), Maths develops other transferable skills which are relevant in the workplace, for example, problem solving, selecting appropriate methods, logical thinking and resilience.

As a more general point, in my experience, schools do teach about voting, first aid and other non subject based knowledge / understanding as part of pshe and enrichment programmes.

Good to know at least one teacher is teaching that! Shame they don't all do that.

I did PSHE, it didn't cover that. I feel it should cover them things. I wish they had! I'd much rather have learnt about things that I'd be dealing with as an adult rather than years of learning what STIs they are and the symptoms and what drugs there are. I remember doing revision in that class too nearing GCSEs.

If we did anything else it must have been just a lesson or two but I seriously don't remember them ever being about anything else. Such a waste of so many hours...

Flyonthewall

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Really good schools have French, music and washing as extras.

I did French and German and music. Never washing...can't say I've heard of any school teaching that.

lincroft1710

You didn't go to a really good school.

Flyonthewall

lincroft1710 wrote: »

You didn't go to a really good school.

No, I went to an excellent school

missbiggles1

Flyonthewall wrote: »

Good to know at least one teacher is teaching that! Shame they don't all do that.

I did PSHE, it didn't cover that. I feel it should cover them things. I wish they had! I'd much rather have learnt about things that I'd be dealing with as an adult rather than years of learning what STIs they are and the symptoms and what drugs there are. I remember doing revision in that class too nearing GCSEs.

If we did anything else it must have been just a lesson or two but I seriously don't remember them ever being about anything else. Such a waste of so many hours...

I'd've thought they were pretty adult subjects!

lincroft1710

Flyonthewall wrote: »

No, I went to an excellent school

But it didn't have washing as an extra!