Teachers' Strike!

[Bungle]

Oh I've no doubt they do.
For example, they produce excellent English students - or should I say, excellent at passing their exams. They will then be employed as English teachers their whole lives - while barely being able to speak or understand a simple conversation.

Their staff rooms will be full of extremely miserable teachers, who are plagued by the need for results without getting to actually teach. Bitter, sad individuals who dream of teaching abroad.

Biggest killer of 18-30 year old Koreans? Suicide.

So you have absolutely no experience of the Asian school system, but you think we should change ours to be more like them? Ok.

I would have put good money on it being kim jong il

 

[orly]

Likelihood that all teachers at that school are with the same union, and are therefore striking on the same day = zero
Likelihood that there will not be a trained, qualified alternative to teach that child = zero
Likelihood that the teacher hasn't prepared a full day of material for their class in advance = zero
Likelihood that 'Look at me, my only decent qualification is an Arts Degree' isn't a facetious ****? = zero

 

[orly]

Have you lived there mate?

Lived and worked

 

[Del]

Lived and worked

Any good?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

So you have absolutely no experience of the Asian school system, but you think we should change ours to be more like them? Ok.

Not sure I've said anything of the sort. I said they usually score highly in international comparisons, and as such they are often studied by educationalists for any lessons they can apply here, just as various Scandinavian countries are too.

 

[orly]

Any good?

Highly recommend it. Leave after two years though as your tax code changes

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Likelihood that all teachers at that school are with the same union, and are therefore striking on the same day = zero
Likelihood that there will not be a trained, qualified alternative to teach that child = zero
Likelihood that the teacher hasn't prepared a full day of material for their class in advance = zero
Likelihood that 'Look at me, my only decent qualification is an Arts Degree' isn't a facetious ****? = zero

You seem to be getting a bit tense here. Have you had to take a day off work to look after a little 'un?

 

[Moomin]

Oh I've no doubt they do.
For example, they produce excellent English students - or should I say, excellent at passing their exams. They will then be employed as English teachers their whole lives - while barely being able to speak or understand a simple conversation.

Their staff rooms will be full of extremely miserable teachers, who are plagued by the need for results without getting to actually teach. Bitter, sad individuals who dream of teaching abroad.

Biggest killer of 18-30 year old Koreans? Suicide.

So you have absolutely no experience of the Asian school system, but you think we should change ours to be more like them? Ok.

Suicide is not due to education process though, its down to Zatara breaking hearts.

 

[Coach]

It's probably around where the median wage for workers in the this country. There aren't all that many lines of work where you can walk into a job without a day's experience and command what half of the country's workers are have spent many years working their way up to.

I personally think that public sector salaries should probably start lower, but increase more with experience, so that there is more of a "ladder". That's my experience of how things are in the private sector.

In that case Gove should be on **** all salary because he has **** all experience of what it takes to run the country's education system.

 

[evilwebby]

I've often wondered how the Germans and Dutch all seem to have better English than the majority of english people.

 

[Housequake]

I've often wondered how the Germans and Dutch all seem to have better English than the majority of english people.

It was the war lad. They saw how boss we were in both of them and decided they wanted to be like us.

 

[Tubey]

I've often wondered how the Germans and Dutch all seem to have better English than the majority of english people.

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=2072668

 

[Mrk]

Likelihood that all teachers at that school are with the same union, and are therefore striking on the same day = zero
Likelihood that there will not be a trained, qualified alternative to teach that child = zero
Likelihood that the teacher hasn't prepared a full day of material for their class in advance = zero
Likelihood that 'Look at me, my only decent qualification is an Arts Degree' isn't a facetious ****? = zero

You seem fun.

 

[nigelcoyb]

Best thing about teachers is when they forget they're out of school and get stroppy talking as though you are a naughty kid in class.

The back peddling when pointed out is hilarious but they just can't help it.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Actually, it's the methodology that is poor in Britain, not the implementation. We adopted a very late implementation of synthetic phonics which still isn't full flow now, meaning literacy suffered badly for generations. The decline in mathematics and science is because of targets that encourage increased focus on the "easier" humanities-based subjects, meaning just over 1 in 10 choose to study it post-16, and has been the case since the early 90s at best.

But no, blame teachers. It's easy that way.

That's a red herring, as the study is around basic numeracy i.e. the %age who are at level 1 & the standard has fallen 4% in the last 8 years, but no, excuse those actually responsible for the task like, that's fine.