I had a chat at the end of lunch with one of the trainee teachers, we were having a lovely casual conversation when she droped in that she'd just broken up with their boyfriend. I wasn't quick enough to change mode though, rather than take a pastoral direction i carried on casually and by the time it clicked what i'd done (about 5 seconds) the moment had passed. Fail.
Afternoon
In the afternoon i went to a Y6 class that some girls had invited me to. We were doing circuit expereiments which was a lot of fun. It is far easier to chat and bond with children over doing exercises than it is over literacy of numeracy.
Once again the "are you a Christian?" question came up.
None of this group were, one was some times but wasn't other times, I suggested that maybe she was agnostic. I explained how i did believe in God because of how wonderful hands are, and trees, that i think we must have be made by someone who loves us. It quickly became existential and i wonder if this is appropiate for 10/11 year olds. Should i have perhaps gone for a "because the bible says…" or "Because Jesus did…". I wonder what is more age appropriate for the Yr6 agnostic/atheist?
I also taught some children the difference between parallel and series circuits… i hope i got it right!
End of the Day
None of this group were, one was some times but wasn't other times, I suggested that maybe she was agnostic. I explained how i did believe in God because of how wonderful hands are, and trees, that i think we must have be made by someone who loves us. It quickly became existential and i wonder if this is appropiate for 10/11 year olds. Should i have perhaps gone for a "because the bible says…" or "Because Jesus did…". I wonder what is more age appropriate for the Yr6 agnostic/atheist?
I also taught some children the difference between parallel and series circuits… i hope i got it right!
End of the Day
Every wednesday there is a staff meeting, I heard it might be about 'behaviour for learning' so I went along. It wasn't. It was about how to use an apostrophe: the tension tangibably increased in the room when something was suggested that contradicted a previous week's advice. We also looked at alternatives to raising hands in lessons
This meeting was a massive insight to me since i assumed that this is all things that one learns in teacher training. Not so apparently. The deputy Head pointed out to me that "you only need to know one more thing than the children" in order to teach them. He was very keen on 'facilitation' over 'teaching' which was interesting to me as much of my youth/childrenswork BA was along these themes.
Basicly I thought teachers knew everything and it turns out, their normal humans just like us…who'd have thought it!
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