I work as a teacher in a secondary school with pupils who were assessed as average at primary school but have since been slipping behind and not reaching their full potential. One of the problems I have encountered are students who find learning maths and English totally pointless. I have tried to reason with them explaining that as adults they will need these skills to do all sorts of things from to budgeting for a weekly shop to reading their children a bedtime story, not to mention the trouble they could have finding and maintaining a job they enjoy. They are not students who can't but students who won't.
Does anyone have any real life stories I could share with them that could strengthen my case in demonstrating how important maths and English skills are?
Many Thanks
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millyrainbow · 01/07/2011 13:08
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