http://rachelm08.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/teaching-reform-needed/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 14 May 2008 19:35:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://rachelm08.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/teaching-reform-needed/#comment-11 Victoria GIll Wed, 14 May 2008 19:35:17 +0000 http://rachelm08.wordpress.com/?p=5#comment-11 My mum is a teaching assisstant at the local school. She works with the behavioural children - the ones that don't want to learn, would rather throw things and swear and disrupt all those who actually would rather learn. The school's answer was to remove them from the mainstream schools, sit them all together in a crampt room and let my mother handle their mood swings and try to get them to learn enough to pass their GCSEs. You would think that the well-being and the education of the students would be the priority of the school. You'd be wrong. The school has a N.C to stick to, targets to reach, grades to hit. And all with not enough staff because they are too tight-fisted to get help. My mum has been left to fend for herself, trying to teach these students, even though she isn't a teacher because they don't want to find someone who will (who'd they'd have to pay more for). If the teachers took the time to talk to these children, they would find that the children mess around because they do not know the subjects they are being taught. The teacher doesn't have the time or doesn't want to help, preferring to teach those who do know it so as to get better results for the school. I totally agree with your statement. Teachers should listen to students - the very people they are meant to be there for - to see if they understand. Not chasing targets and grading tables. It is the children who will ultimately loose out, our future generations. My mum is a teaching assisstant at the local school. She works with the behavioural children – the ones that don’t want to learn, would rather throw things and swear and disrupt all those who actually would rather learn.
The school’s answer was to remove them from the mainstream schools, sit them all together in a crampt room and let my mother handle their mood swings and try to get them to learn enough to pass their GCSEs.
You would think that the well-being and the education of the students would be the priority of the school. You’d be wrong.
The school has a N.C to stick to, targets to reach, grades to hit. And all with not enough staff because they are too tight-fisted to get help.
My mum has been left to fend for herself, trying to teach these students, even though she isn’t a teacher because they don’t want to find someone who will (who’d they’d have to pay more for).
If the teachers took the time to talk to these children, they would find that the children mess around because they do not know the subjects they are being taught. The teacher doesn’t have the time or doesn’t want to help, preferring to teach those who do know it so as to get better results for the school.
I totally agree with your statement. Teachers should listen to students – the very people they are meant to be there for – to see if they understand. Not chasing targets and grading tables. It is the children who will ultimately loose out, our future generations.

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