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they teach which would be impossible
for them to acquire for themselves
on teaching practice and what may influence professional decisions
which they have to take in relation to that practice.
Students need
both to observe and become a part of
’good'
Classrooi
practice and
this
often involves
in decisions
about what not
to do and when
not to act with the sense of future possibility that has to do with
long
term planning.
This aspect of teachers' work is most difficult
to tackle within the confines of PGCE time and structure. With the
visiting tutor the sense of its importance comes through. Perhaps
юге often than the demands of teaching practice
seem to allow for
sensible decisions require students to proceed slowly if indeed at
all in certain areas. In the next extract there is an example of
this where the visiting tutor has been talking about the selection
of fiction for the integrated studies course illustrating this with
The Trouble with Donovan Croft (Ashley 1979)
School A 9.2.82 P7∕8 ei
My immediate reaction is that it’s a nice
way to approach a problem - head on rather
than this bringing in pictures
back door as it were, pretending
doesn’t actually exist - that’s
through the
the problem
initial
SSl
reaction.
We haven’t seen it picked up - I’ve seen
children reading it but it wasn’t picked
up on in that particular lesson. I’ve
confidence in the teacher who we heard reading
that but in that context there were tremendous
problems with discipline and instead of asking
them to write worksheets this was another
way
of getting theɪ
quiet.
But having seen
him in assembly this morning - I mean the
kids have now acted out the third world
problem and it was beautiful - the power
and arms and thinking about what’s wrong
- so there will be many other times in that
class's time that you can confront that.
Your remark that
it's very difficult to work
with that I agree but the fact that it comes
out in school all the time.
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