TFI Friday

Well the second week is over, today is Uni day and what a treat it was. Today we were put into groups to create resources for a topic of our choice which will be put on a shared drive so we can all use each others resources. Great idea, except that some lazy gits will do nowt so the resources should be stipulated as put in before you get out. Anyway as most people will have spent most of last practice making resources don't we already have loads we can share.....should we not be looking at more pressing matters, actually being taught something by people we pay to teach us....I know...radical or what, dont tell the DFES 'cause it may catch on. Still I my group managed to do a runner at coffee time so not all the morning was wasted.
Now you might imagine that learners in training need to absorb lots of information on an intense and creative professional year at University. Not a bit of it, Monday afternoon approximately forty of us from ages 21 to about 50 were asked to stand up in front of the class and read a couple of paragraphs from a photocopied sheet so the tutor could hear us read. What the f@&k! This is from an A rated Ofsted University (go on ask me A rated for what 'cause it ain't the quality of the bloody teaching). I have a sneaking suspicion I know where incompetent teachers end up, the ones that jump before the GTC gets them.

Update on my missing post 16 teaching experience.....it now appears that I don't actually have to teach to gain the required knowledge, as long as I'm in the room to observe that will be OK, I'm advised. That's all right then and I'm actually paying for this??
Figures out this week showed that 47.6% of pupils achieved the golden egg of 5 a*-c gcse's including maths & english, whilst 65.3% achieved 5 a* - c gcse's without maths and english. So overall 112.9% of pupils achieve 5 a*-c gcse's........er?

I've decided to treat you, the lucky reader, to a tip now and again, to impart my ICT knowledge gained here at the University of Contempt, to make your day just a little worthwhile. So, for today it goes like this......you start typing madly only too look up three paragraphs later and find you accidentally hit the caps lock key....never fear, simply highlight the text in the wrong case, press shift & f3 together and hey presto.....weep no more!

Take time out to visit Frank Chalk he posts this week that:
Chalk's Second Law: "The frequency of 'buzzwords' and jargon in a person's speech is inversely proportional to their general competence" He must have met the guy that lectures us!

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