Friday, September 07, 2007
Back to Work
This afternoon I started my Level 4 teaching course, the final step in becoming a government certified proper teacher. Today's lesson: how to write classroom aims in a variety of jargon crammed, linguistically complex sentences. Three hours down, nine and a half months, one hundred and twenty logged teaching hours, ten assignments and six observed classes to go.
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Is that the dreaded "module two", properly called the Cert in FE with ESOL blah-di-blah?
Goog luck I say. Wanted to do a similar course, but as my teaching hours are down to minimum, what's the point? If you pass, I' buy your notes!
That's the one, for now anyway. It's getting changed to something equally long winded next year. Anonymous: If I pass, you can have whatever you can carry away for free.
I did it last year, but deferred it and I've still got 4 assignments to do and 3 hours of observed teaching. I should get that all out of the way in the next couple of months and I'll be very happy indeed to leave the buggering thing behind.
It's become a vital qualification if you want to teach ESOL in the UK public sector, but I and my fellow students failed to find any relevance in 90% of what we were taught.
Good luck. I'd suggest cracking on with your assignments ans scheduling your obs asap and don't - as I did - let them stack up at the end. With the new qual coming in, you won't have the option of deferring this year.
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