Anyone here doing teacher training?

titaniumx3 said:
I've seen a couple of teachers cry, but only female staff. It's difficult, but I wouldn't say it's anything that would make me want to cry or get emotional over.

This is why I work at a grammar school. There's a level of basic respect towards staff that you just don't get in normal schools (at least not in the ones I've worked in).
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I went to a grammar school and I can assure you this was very much not the case.
 
ok I bet teaching in a private school is easier. You don't get the chavy kids there as the parents won't pay the entry fee.
 
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geekman said:
I went to a grammar school and I can assure you this was very much not the case.
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I guess it depends on which grammar school it is, some can be terrible. I went to a boys grammar school myself so I know how poorly some of us behaved.

Luckily the one I work at, behaviour management isn't that difficult. The most I get is kids talking too much. If I want, I can have every child working in silence the whole lesson. This is the norm here and pupils are expected to be able to work in silence. Apart from a couple of situations, I've never had a pupil being rude to me or being outwardly defiant.

The worst incident I've had here was a pupil refusing to admit that he was talking when he shouldn't have, resulting in him being removed from the lesson and being put into internal exclusion. The sanctions are pretty severe for anything like that and the school is pretty good at helping you enforce such sanctions. The pupil in question came back to me the next day and handed me a letter of apology for his actions.
 
malachi said:
ok I bet teaching in a private school is easier. You don't get the chavy kids there as the parents won't pay the entry fee.
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Not really as parents have paid, so magically they expect their child to excel. The last report had some comprehensives doing better than fee paying ones. This idea that schools are fee paying so they are always better seems entrenched in this country. There is a lot of pressure in fee paying schools as there are alternative.
 
titaniumx3 said:
I guess it depends on which grammar school it is, some can be terrible. I went to a boys grammar school myself so I know how poorly some of us behaved.

Luckily the one I work at, behaviour management isn't that difficult. The most I get is kids talking too much. If I want, I can have every child working in silence the whole lesson. This is the norm here and pupils are expected to be able to work in silence. Apart from a couple of situations, I've never had a pupil being rude to me or being outwardly defiant.

The worst incident I've had here was a pupil refusing to admit that he was talking when he shouldn't have, resulting in him being removed from the lesson and being put into internal exclusion. The sanctions are pretty severe for anything like that and the school is pretty good at helping you enforce such sanctions. The pupil in question came back to me the next day and handed me a letter of apology for his actions.
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I'd say it definitely depends which school it is - mine was an all boys school and actually very high performing - rated "outstanding" according to ofsted.

Off the top of my head, I can remember:

One kid smashing down the polystyrene roof tiles of the classroom and trying to climb inside the roof during a lesson.

A teacher having a breakdown, throwing a load of glass test tubes on the floor and running out crying.

Tables being thrown across the room in a fight.

One of the students telling probably the harshest holocaust joke I've ever heard to a teacher who then turned out to be Jewish.

A kid standing up in the middle of a maths exam, shouting "big black ****" and then sitting down again and continuing.

One of our teachers being caught with child porn on his computer and being sent to prison.

There's probably many more things I've forgotten, but I genuinely miss those days. Don't even feel guilty about what happened to some of our teachers as I was one of the good kids so it was never me doing it :p
 
Diagro said:
I started my teacher training this week.

9 months of hell coming up!

Anyone else here doing teacher training? If so where?
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If you think teacher training is Hell, wait until you start the real thing :p

Moved career into teaching thirteen years ago and while it has its moments, the workload is pretty heavy. Just taken a £7000 paycut to move to a more 'relaxed' organisation with smaller class sizes and, hopefully, a smaller workload.

After a while, you crave the sanity of the students/pupils just to get away from the nonsense of management :D
 
malachi said:
ok I bet teaching in a private school is easier. You don't get the chavy kids there as the parents won't pay the entry fee.
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A nightmare of a child left my wife's school to go to a private school as they got a scholarship - something to do with the private school's "impact on society" ISO9001 accreditation or something. They take 30 "school meals" kids each year apparently.
 
So just finished my first week in a music teaching placement at an academy that is current down as "Needs Improvement". Some classes are a bit of a challenge but it's felt incredibly rewarding so far even if I have a large folder of paperwork.

How're you finding it Diagro?
 
malachi said:
ok I bet teaching in a private school is easier. You don't get the chavy kids there as the parents won't pay the entry fee.
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Nope! The kids can self righteous, arrogant pigs. The rest are lovely but the parental pressure is extreme.

Other parents feel that because they pay us to teach their child, I should be another parent to them, like the child I had to walk through personal hygiene because parents didn't give him any care as he grew up.
 
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