Teacher Education And The Development Of Professional Identity: Learning To Be A Teacher1глава из книги
Аннотация: Judyth Sachs and taught, homework and tests marked, miscreant pupils dealt with.All of this I find rewarding, yes, but energy sapping and draining too.The thought of a long lunch or an hour or two reading the chapter is unimaginable.And the key additional factor for me is the weight of social responsibility that teachers bear…. Tuesday morningToday I'm being observed.Not in the Big Brother sense, although some teachers see Orwellian parallels in much of the inspection system.No, the scrutiny will last just an hour and I will see, and know, the person doing the observing.He's my tutor from college, and this is one of the three or four official visits he will make during my training year to assess me in the environment that really matters: standing in front of a class.Although my lessons are prepared, with plans of varying detail, observed lessons are planned just a little bit more thoroughly….An hour and a half later, and I'm sharing a coffee with my tutor over the debrief.One of his greatest skills is in accentuating the positive.He will always start any post mortem like this with a discussion of what went well, and lavish praise for the good bits.This softens the blow when he comes to the mistakes and wrong turnings, and the criticism is always constructive.Trainee teachers need this approach, because confidence and morale can often be finely balanced.Everyday I get masses of helpful advice, support and reassurance from the other maths teachers at my school.I believe I could not get by without it.The observation was OK-ish, and I move on to my next class. Friday…The bureaucratic load on teachers is well known and no one could complain that we, as trainees, are not being adequately prepared for that part of our future careers.From the very outset of my course, I have been swamped with paper and loaded with form-filling and report-writing exercises.Only tenuously linked to the aim (which can be lost in the fog) of teaching maths to teenagers.Much of this paper work is driven by the obligation of all trainee teachers to achieve what are called the Standards Necessary to become a Qualified Teacher, set out in a Government circular known affectionately as 4/98.These standards (68 of them) range from the sensible and constructive to the mind-numbingly obvious, via the familiar verbal contortions of the politically correct.Connecting policy and practice 6
Год издания: 2005
Авторы: Judyth Sachs
Издательство: Informa
Источник: Routledge eBooks
Ключевые слова: Teacher Professional Development and Motivation, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Открытый доступ: hybrid
Страницы: 5–21