The name is absent

16

E2

That’s good.

Well it depends on the teachers

we’re assigned to ..... he said 'Just sit at

the back of the class and don't take notes’,

and that’s very bad.

I mean, that’s how it can

be bad if the Institute does that.

Obviously

if you’ve got a teacher who's interested and
wants to help, that's fine.

Ml

It’s also down to the individual, I mean

as an observer.

I went into Maths classes . . .

and you go up and say 'What are you doing', it’s
the way you approach them as well because if

you say ’What are you doing?

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then they don’t

on to something else.

I mean I can get into

Il

E2

I wasn't sure.

I didn’t want to offend

the teacher, I didn’t want to offend the kids
and I didn't know what I should do and in the
primary schools most of the teachers are really
helpful, and said 'This is what we're doing',
you know, 'and why don't you participate.'

SS2

It's really just individual teachers because
in the same day at E I did a remedial group which

was terrific

talking to me about football.

In another class I was introduced very formally

as Mr X

’Ask him questions if you want*

and by the end of the lesson the kids were putting
their hands up and I was helping them and in

class the kids don't knew who I am yet

....and just at the end of last week ..... who

is he?

It depends entirely on your teacher,

you know.

I don't feel, I mean I'm learning

a lot just hanging around like a big lump, it’s
you that feels embarrassed ..... it doesn’t mean

I’m not learning something.

E4

The first class I went into they didn't

bother to introduce me at all.

I mean they

probably thought I was the cleaner and I had
to go around saying this is who I am and then

the

econd^one, I went up to the teacher and

said ,

' Look

could you introduce us in some way

course . '

It just hadn’t occurred to hi

much better then.

It

and it was

In fact, I took a group of

eight of them into a different classroom and

worked with them and it was really good.

I mean

because he had taken the trouble just to say,

you know,

’This is so and so, he's from the

Institute and he's going to help us today,'

and that was all that was necessary.

It's not

thing, you know.