SSl
ιean
shops
close
for one hour a week,
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one
morning a week for staff training, well why
can't schools be shut - not open 'til 10:00
to give staff a time
to talk to each other.
- laughter -
ɛŋg ɔɪɪ yθs, the thing is in the English Department
the Head was trying to bring in the idea that
even just within the English Department people
brought in the lessons they’d been doing,
just like we do here to have time to think
like the type of thing we do when we're doing
teacher training that just stops and people
don’t know what each other are doing but to
share lessons, to share ideas of how you plan
and things like that. I thought it was really
good yet the problem was what that a lot of
the English Department feel that they're too
tired at the end of the day, that they've
got other things to do, that they want to
go off and that just ruins it - perhaps we
could spare an hour after school.
SS2
Sometimes it can be done over a weekend with
the
department.
Eng Yes that would be - yes like that Social Educ-
ation weekend. I got so much from that first
evening when we talked together.
The students here are realistic, knowledgeable and practised. They
see possibilities, they do not overestimate them nor themselves but
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neither do they accept the limitations they find. Perhaps nothing
indicts the present separation of theory and practice in teacher
education more than the student whose course work fails to suggest
the possibilities of his or her own practice and expounds a theoretical
position which renders any practice reactionary at best and damaging
at worst. Personal engagement does not ignore the issues or the
theories but it accepts the student teachers’ as practitioners who
should be enabled to develop their capacity as fully as possible and
this points to a reflective and informed practice.