Steel Icarus
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Hopefully those nice moments you'll get through the week will counter the shitter times.
Teacher training: Teach First?
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Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Yeah.
The bad times may be stressful but the good times really do help remind you of why the job is so important.
The bad times may be stressful but the good times really do help remind you of why the job is so important.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Feel that. At the pub by the college treating myself.
Will be great next week. Out on strike.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
That first half term is a real landmark.
I'm at home, bored already
maomao
普費斯
I've got a two week half term. Nearly did a jig when I found out. I have taken over the classes that were being done by a teach first trainee who gave up which means I don't have another teacher in the room. It's a lot nicer learning to teach like this.
I have v much enjoyed the lessons I've been observed in, but having a lot of other lessons where there isn't an observer is also good... just sometimes it has been total chaos ha.
maomao
普費斯
I've got a 5,000 word essay to do and tonnes of planning but I don't have to iron any shirts and I can spend today with my kid.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Excellent. Boredom is much better than stress.
You can do prep or CPD if you want this week but also just focusing on doing something that you would enjoy personally would be great pick.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Wish someone had told me about the extreme highs and lows
Do you need to vent because I'm happy to lend an ear.
Thank you Shippou-Sensei appreciated! But it is all good right now, department is still being great and week ended good... just standard ups and downs. I will def be in touch at some point tho!
End of November and all is well, I like it. My assignment is going to be on cognitive load theory and particularly "maths anxiety" and its affect on cognitive load for both students and teacher, and the balance between reducing cognitive load and teaching for conceptual depth and complexity.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Swot
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
My university visiting tutor didn't visit me because of the covid, I had to send him a video of me teaching instead. Which meant I had to watch a video of myself teaching. I realised that I fiddled relentlesly with my shirt cuffs, so now I teach with my sleeves rolled up. That was about all the professional development I got out of it tbh.
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SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
I would actually read that.
Me too.
This presentation was nothing to worry about in the end, could have spent FAR less time and stress on it. But oh well, I passed at least, so a third of the way to QTS!
i'm not sure I really found anything. it was a summary of cognitive load theory. I guess the key bit is that anxiety reduces working memory (so it isn't just that not being able to do the work causes anxiety; it is that pre-existing anxiety itself makes the work more difficult to do). And in fact maths anxiety might actually affect students with the highest maths attainment most, particularly girls. ALSO it is catching! Parents and anxious teachers (eg those without higher level maths qualifications) can pass it on. I guess the key quote I referenced was "Educators should not only consider math learning in terms of concepts, procedures, math curricula, and instruction but also the emotions and anxieties children may bring to the learning situation."
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