CHAPTER SEVEN
The second teaching practice
After four weeks in the Institute with one day
a week spent in school
the students begin their second block teaching practice.
This block
is
seven
weeks
with
one week’s half
for
school-based students.
Students placed
in Further Education
Colleges continue as before to
spend one day a week in school. The block for Alternative Course
students is five
days
a week with subject
method groups and
tutors
making
informal
arrangements
to
in the evening.
The school
group seminar, held in school, is the only formal opportunity provided
Two such meetings
by the course for students to meet together.
form the basis for this chapter and both included school staff -
in School A the teacher tutor and in School B the Deputy Head.
In School
the topic
пі
Ulti-Cultural
education and in School B
the implications for women students of spending teaching practice
in a boy's school. In this meeting only women members of the school
group were present along with the Research Tutor. This decision
had been arrived at in a discussion of the whole group and Tutor
at Deputy Head’s request. In both seminars the groups are addressing
themselves to issues that have been discussed both formally and infor-
mally in school and method groups and which will later find a place
in the students’ course work. Three themes are discussed in this
section.