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look round to see
doing, he’s doing
helping individual
problems and just
kid to another an<
discipline breaks
down - gets them
what the other teacher’s
the same as I’m doing -
kids with specific maths
buzzing round
also
down
back
seeing
from one
areas where
to
I’m not sure. I know our
department doesn’t realy
teaching a SMILE class I
that anybody could do it
bit, calms kids
their chairs so
tutor inthe maths
want to see us
think he assumes
so I don’t think
that they’re really worried about us in the
SMILE class anyway - it’s in the ordinary
classroom - class teaching - mixed ability
Res
Tutor
Ml
When you say ’they’ do you mean the Institute?
Well
the
maths
department
here have had to
give a report on us and see us teaching to
a class sometimes.
Hums
But do they do any class teaching here?
Ml
Well not
IV and V year but it ’ s
a method of teaching maths (class teaching)
which in this school is just dying out because
it doesn’t seem to be any good .....
As was seen
in the Research Group this is
less a conflict between
school and Institute than a confusion about what
is appropriate for
the student teacher and what therefore are the roles of the tutors
and teachers the students work with.
If it is felt by any of them
that there are specific requirements for students which exist despite
the appropriateness of the school setting for their fulfilment then
the students are caught in a false situation which gives a sense
of unreality to the enterprise. The resulting confusion is the theme
of the next extracts which show students discussing the issues of
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different kinds of practical experiences that they are beginning
to develop.