SCHOOLS AND TEACHING
I'm sick of this course and haven't enjoyed it since before Christmas. Constantly encountering the following spin and dross makes me feel miserable.
All pupils have special needs!
They are all different
They each have their own strengths and weaknesses
They all possess, in varying needs, a number of intelligences which need to be engaged in order to learn
One of these intelligences is emotional intelligence - maybe most apparent in the pastoral system of the school
yeah, yeah, yeah.
a. These platitudes are obvious
b. They quickly go out of the window when you are trying to control 30 teenagers, mark coursework, complete an abundance of paperwork and chase up late homework, students who don't attend detentions and 1,001 other small matters.
At first, this gumpf amused me but now it is depressing. Amazingly, there are those who seem to take it seriously. Of course, when you're doing the job, it seems to be more a matter of making it through each day. On the training, we are constantly confronted with exactly this kind of psychobabble which is at once hopelessly vague and also obvious (so much so that it is, in the end, meaningless).
I'm sick of this course and haven't enjoyed it since before Christmas. Constantly encountering the following spin and dross makes me feel miserable.
All pupils have special needs!
They are all different
They each have their own strengths and weaknesses
They all possess, in varying needs, a number of intelligences which need to be engaged in order to learn
One of these intelligences is emotional intelligence - maybe most apparent in the pastoral system of the school
yeah, yeah, yeah.
a. These platitudes are obvious
b. They quickly go out of the window when you are trying to control 30 teenagers, mark coursework, complete an abundance of paperwork and chase up late homework, students who don't attend detentions and 1,001 other small matters.
At first, this gumpf amused me but now it is depressing. Amazingly, there are those who seem to take it seriously. Of course, when you're doing the job, it seems to be more a matter of making it through each day. On the training, we are constantly confronted with exactly this kind of psychobabble which is at once hopelessly vague and also obvious (so much so that it is, in the end, meaningless).
