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a central reference is the school and each school group is comprised
of students who will undertake block teaching practice in that
particular school. To these are added one or two students whose
block teaching practice is in an FE college and who will spend one
day a week throughout the course with the group in school.
It meets regularly in both the school and the Institute and depends
for its agenda upon the concerns of both institutions. It is not
appended to a taught course. Its work is the construction of a
professional discourse and this requires an inclusiveness that ref-
lects and guides the learning experiences of students throughout
the PGCE. In the first extract both the tutor and students link
their plans to option courses so establishing the school group stud-
ents as a link across courses in the Institute as well as between
the Institute and the school.
School A 16.10.81 P6∕7 a і
SSl
Tutor
I’d quite like to explore the area around
the school. I don’t know whether anyone else
would.
suggested that
і interested
In Health and Welfare they
it would be quite interesting,
from the RE point of view.
There’s
on the
I might be able to feed something in.
some research about to be published
effect of the urban environment on the school.
SSl Call it the environment and the school.
SS2 It’s the sort of thing you need to do near
the beginning.
In the second extract the group follows up an active session
on the use of video and considers its possible use in the students’ own
teaching.