What do you assign to Mordor?

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by wilwarin538

oh, and homework that I don't have enough time to do because of the aforementioned placement...

Even though I was doing secondary I had to spend a week's "observation" in a primary school and due to staff illness I had to spend four days with a mixed year group of 6 and 7 year olds helping with their science project (obviously really helpful for a trainee language teacher). On the friday morning I was feeling the strain a little and ended up raising my voice to stop the naughty kid doing something naughty - not shouting but just not the calm voice I had so endeavoured to maintain thus far. I felt terrible but an adorable little moppet gave me a hug and said "I think you will be a good teacher!" "Because I shouted at Keith?" "Yes" she said solemnly "It's what teachers have to do...".

I thought this was really funny but when I related it in the staff room my mentor was very po-faced and said "well I think that reflects very badly on us as a profession".

Moppet was dead wrong and I was a useless teacher or at least useless at riot control which prevented much teaching from actually happening... if you want useless teacher training - I'll nominate my old college. We had two hours of lectures on classroom management which consisted of "don't use yellow chalk or green board markers, don't wear short skirts or low cut tops... " Not a great help when you end up in a school where the kids try to set fire to your hair and you have to have the classroom windows screwed shut to stop them climbing out..

But don't let me put you off....