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Not nice, but it's good that he's being active in seeking what he's entitled to.
"Watching paint dry" ... Oh yes. I used to do French GCSE written, reading comprehension and oral marking. I'd spend hours with my headphones on, listening to literally hundreds of struggling adolescents grunting one word replies to questions that were far too hard for them. And on one joyously memorable occasion, I had a teacher in a Marist college (Marists are super-strict Jesuits) cheating like fury with his students. And yes, I did report it. It was blatant, clearly the result of bad teaching, and I couldn't mark it.Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
See? Eight years away and I've no idea.WRT marking
What's WRT?
But thanks, Sue, for being your USUAL helpful self.Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
[quote=droopsnout;16693371]Not nice, but it's good that he's being active in seeking what he's entitled to.
"Watching paint dry" ... Oh yes. I used to do French GCSE written, reading comprehension and oral marking. I'd spend hours with my headphones on, listening to literally hundreds of struggling adolescents grunting one word replies to questions that were far too hard for them. And on one joyously memorable occasion, I had a teacher in a Marist college (Marists are super-strict Jesuits) cheating like fury with his students. And yes, I did report it. It was blatant, clearly the result of bad teaching, and I couldn't mark it.[/quote]
Well eight hours a week at minimum wage is not going to go very far!:eek:
My husband had some really good 'bloopers' in the Geography papers he marked.
The only one I can remember is something about defining what a 'conurbation' was and one guy put it was the opposite of a suburb - some people lived in the suburbs and some in the conurbs.
My son had various problems at school which led to great underachievement (found out about three years ago that he almost certainly has Aspergers' Syndrome - it was not known about when he was at school). Anyway what I was going to say was he had a real blind spot with foreign languages. Didn't seem to be able to get it into his head that it was different to English, with a different language structure etc., because it WASN'T English! I asked for him not to do his French speaking in front of the class for his GCSE as he was going to fail anyway and he was so distressed and panicky about it - the school compromised by letting him do it just to the teacher one-to-one (he got an F). He did well in the sciences, Geography and English and scraped through Maths and RE.
He's slightly better now he is older and actually managed to say a few words of Spanish to the locals last time he visited!(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
Aww, bless him. But when it came to GCSEs, our oral exams were always done privately, one-to-one, and no-one could overhear.
These days, a male teacher shut in a small room with a buxom 16-year-old would be classed a paedophile!!Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
droopsnout wrote: »Aww, bless him. But when it came to GCSEs, our oral exams were always done privately, one-to-one, and no-one could overhear.
These days, a male teacher shut in a small room with a buxom 16-year-old would be classed a paedophile!!
Tell me about it.
I've just read on another thread that some schools are finding it difficult now to get work placements for the year 9s as every place has to be risk-assessed and therefore kids/parents are not allowed to find their own placements. Just before my husband left teaching, the school allowed virtually no field trips for similar reasons. My husband was livid as he's always said fieldwork is an ESSENTIAL part of learning about our planet, which is what Geography is about. I think as well as his illness it was things like this that heralded the beginning of the end for his teaching career.
How this government is screwing up Education!
Anyway, this is completely OT, so I'll shut up now (about Teaching anyway!:rotfl:).(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
Oh, yes ... I was Head of Mod Langs, and ran as many as six trips abroad each year. But yes, risk assessments and the threat of losing our jobs should some child step off the kerb almost brought an end to it all.
I'm no lover of the present government (though I can't actually see anything better), but it was the Snail, Tory education minister Kenneth Baker, who started all that. Almost killed school trips stone dead.Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
Yes it was Kenneth Baker, I remember now, and it's gone steadily downhill ever since.
I'm afraid I can't see anything any better either.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is the Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology: Terry Eagleton0 -
WRT = with regard to. Sorry ...Signature removed for peace of mind0
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LOL!!! There was me thinking it was some new-fangled educational jargon ...
Duh!!!Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell, "Is Reality Optional?", 19930 -
This is what happened to a colleague's daughter. Risk Assessments are vital, sadly it's too late for Hannah http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1862926.stm.................
....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)0
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