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concerned when we’re the learners - I’m not
sure what the teacher wants from me in some
ways - I know the children don't know what
ɪ want them to do - and
them to
do what they want
certain constraints and
it’s often I want
to do within those
that's what the
teachers want for us, isn't it because they
can’t say exactly because we’re all going
to react differently - find our own way really.
What has to be accepted is the possibility of working with a degree
of uncertainty which is to accept oneself as a learner and this
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crucial acceptance presents different problems for different students.
On occasion the more mature and settled in their views students are
the more difficult this may
be and practices have to take into account
the
that students
make as well as the
needs that tutors
perceive them to have.
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SSl
qi
It might be different for different people
but I really wanted - I mean I wouldn't have
learned anything unless
I'd had that
standing out in front
ving everything that
now - I don't think
of - I'm really recei-
everyone's telling me
I've done the kids any
harm in the meantime.
SSl
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qιι
I didn't want 13 periods I knew that what
I was going to be told would make more sense
when I knew what standing up there was really
like - so for me I needed to stand up in
front of the class some of the time - once
Ml The position that we're in you come in in
the middle of the term into a teacher's class
and the teacher's built up a relationship
and teaching in a certain way to the kids
and you approach your teaching in that class
differently than you would if you were
teaching your own class that you'd started
from the beginning of the year with and were
taking them through .....
..... I certainly find if I was on my own
with my own class I'd do it my own way .....